William Goldman (screenwriter)
William Goldman (born August 12, 1931 in Highland Park , Illinois ; died November 16, 2018 in Manhattan ) was an American screenwriter and writer .
Life
Goldman grew up in a Jewish family in the Chicago area . He made a 1952 Bachelor Accounts (BA) at Oberlin College and received the degree of Master of Arts (MA) in 1956 at Columbia University in New York City .
He got into the film business after dividing the very short novel No Way To Treat A Lady into so many chapters to make it longer that Cliff Robertson thought it was a film treatment . Goldman then wrote for Robertson, but was fired and replaced by him while working for Charly - for whom Robertson was to receive the Oscar for Best Actor.
Although Goldman also wrote novels and plays, Goldman's reputation was largely based on working for cinema and television productions. Goldman received an Oscar for his screenplays for Two Bandits and The Untouchables . The action film Wild Card , directed by Simon West in 2015, is a remake of the 1986 film Heat , also known as Heat - Nick the Killer . Both are based on a script by Goldman, which he in turn based on his novel Heat .
He also wrote a number of books about his experience in the US film industry. Often he was also used as a script doctor to revise immature scripts. Among other things, he revised John Cleese 's screenplay for Wilde Kreaturen (1997). For his novel Die Brautprinzessin , which was made into a film by Rob Reiner in 1987 (German title: The Prince's Bride ), he invented the writer S. Morgenstern , whose novel he allegedly edited and shortened to the "exciting passages".
From 1961 to 1991 Goldman was married to the photographer Ilene Jones. He is the father of two daughters.
Goldman died in November 2018 at the age of 87.
Scripts (selection)
- 1966: A Case for Harper (Harper)
- 1969: Two bandits (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
- 1972: Four Weird Birds (The Hot Rock)
- 1975: The Stepford Wives (The Stepford Wives)
- 1976: The Marathon Man
- 1976: The Untouchables (All the President's Men)
- 1977: The Arnhem Bridge (A Bridge Too Far)
- 1986: Heat
- 1987: The Princess Bride (The Princess Bride)
- 1990: Misery
- 1992: Chaplin
- 1992: Memoirs of an Invisible (Memoirs of an Invisible Man)
- 1993: Last Action Hero
- 1994: Maverick - The Colt on your belt, an ace up your sleeve (Maverick)
- 1996: The Chamber (The Chamber)
- 1996: The Ghost and the Darkness (The Ghost and the Darkness)
- 1997: Absolute Power
- 1999: Defenseless - The General's Daughter
- 2001: Hearts in Atlantis
- 2003: Dreamcatcher
- 2015: Wild Card
Books (selection)
- The Temple of Gold. Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1957.
- Who lied here? Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2001 ISBN 3-404-94010-5 .
- The Hollywood business. Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1986 ISBN 3-404-28134-9 .
- The bride princess . Klett-Cotta , Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-608-93226-7 . (New edition 2003, with the first chapter of "Buttercup's Baby").
Secondary literature
- Richard Andersen: William Goldman . Twayne, Boston 1979 ISBN 0-8057-7259-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about William Goldman in the catalog of the German National Library
- William Goldman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ William Goldman Dies; Oscar Winning Writer Of 'Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid' Was 87. deadline.com, November 16, 2018 (English).
- ^ William Goldman in: Tales from the Script . Eds. Peter Hanson, Paul Robert Herman. 1st edition. HarperCollins Publishers, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-06-185592-4 , p. 7.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goldman, William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American screenwriter and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Highland Park , Illinois , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | 16th November 2018 |
| Place of death | Manhattan , New York , United States |