Hesper Anderson

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Hesper Anderson (born August 2, 1934 in New York City , † October 17, 2018 in Sherman Oaks , California ) was an American screenwriter and writer .

Life

Hesper Anderson was a daughter of the playwright and screenwriter Maxwell Anderson (1888-1959). Her mother died of suicide when Anderson was 18 years old. In 1955 she married Earle Levenstein, with whom she had three daughters. In 1968 the divorce followed. Anderson had previously started writing for McCall’s magazine and focused on a career as a screenwriter after their marriage ended.

She wrote the first realized scripts for the television series Dr. med. Marcus Welby in 1973 and 1974. In the 1980s and early 1990s, several feature films for cinema and television followed. The screenplay for God's Forgotten Children earned her an Oscar nomination in 1987 for Best Adapted Screenplay . In the same category she was nominated at the British Academy Film Awards in 1987 .

For her screenplay for Touched by Love she was nominated in 1981 for the Golden Raspberry in the category Worst Screenplay .

Since the 1990s, Anderson taught writing at the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles and, until shortly before her death, taught private lessons at home.

In 2002 she published her memoirs under the title South Mountain Road , and three years later she published the novel MacDougal Street Ghosts .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1975: The UFO Incident
  • 1980: Touched by Love
  • 1980: Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
  • 1986: The Deliberate Stranger
  • 1986: Children of a Lesser God (Children of a Lesser God)
  • 1990: The Abyss of Life (Unspeakable Acts)
  • 1991: Summer on Grand Isle (Grand Isle)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary on legacy.com , accessed February 12, 2019

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personal data
SURNAME Anderson, Hesper
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , United States
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 2018
Place of death Sherman Oaks , California , United States