William Harrison (Author)
William Neal Harrison (born October 29, 1933 in Dallas , Texas , † October 22, 2013 in Fayetteville , Arkansas ) was an American writer and professor of English .
Life
Harrison graduated from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth in 1955 and married Merlee Kimsey in 1957. The marriage had three children.
William Harrison wrote the short story Rollerball Murders and later the script for the 1975 science fiction film Rollerball, which was inspired by it and is considered by many to be a classic of the genre, as well as for the remake of the same title , which was filmed in 2002 , but which was panned by criticism .
He reportedly said to his students (during a course about writing for the screen around 1989) about the director of the 1975 film, Norman Jewison , "He did everything with my script, except using it."
He also wrote the screenplay for Mountains of the Moon ( Mountains of the Moon ) in 1990, the expedition of Captain Richard Francis Burton and Lt. John Hanning Speke, who is supposed to locate the source of the Nile on behalf of Queen Victoria .
Filmography
as screenwriter:
movie theater
- 1975: Rollerball
- 1990: Land of the Black Sun (Mountains of the Moon)
watch TV
- 1979: A Shining Season
Web links
- Literature by and about William Harrison in the catalog of the German National Library
- William Harrison in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- William Harrison in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harrison, William |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Harrison, William Neal (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American science fiction writer and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 29, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dallas , Texas |
| DATE OF DEATH | 22nd October, 2013 |
| Place of death | Fayetteville , Arkansas |