Ernest Thompson (filmmaker)

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Ernest Thompson (2015)

Ernest Thompson (born November 6, 1949 in Bellows Falls , Vermont ) is an American actor , director and screenwriter who won the Oscar for the best adapted screenplay , the Golden Globe Award for the , for the screenplay of The Golden Lake (1981) won Best Screenplay, the Writers Guild of America Award (WGA Award) for Best Adapted Screenplay, and was nominated for a British Academy Film Award (BAFTA Film Award) for Best Screenplay in 1983 .

Life

Thompson initially worked as an actor and played in television series such as Great Performances (1972), Somerset (1972), Sierra (1974) and Westside Medical (1977).

For his debut as a writer, the screenplay for The Golden Lake (1981) based on his play Das Haus am See , which Mark Rydell directed with Katharine Hepburn , Henry Fonda and Jane Fonda in the leading roles , he won an Academy Award for 1982 the best adapted screenplay and also the Golden Globe Award for the best film script and the WGA Award for the best adapted screenplay. He was also nominated for the 1983 BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay.

In addition to his work as a screenwriter, Thompson is the owner of a theater in Kittery , he is also active as a director and directed in 1969 (1988) and the television films The West Side Rhythm (1995), Out of Time (2000) and On Golden Pond ( 2001), a new edition of Am golden See . For Out of Time , for which he also wrote the screenplay, he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award in 2001 for best director in a children's film.

The story of At the Golden Lake was also filmed in 2004 for Japanese television with the title Kagayaku mizuumi nite and in 2009 as La Maison du Lac for French television.

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SURNAME Thompson, Ernest
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter, director and actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Bellows Falls , Vermont