and 'Lovers and Other Strangers.' The latter earned him an Oscar nod.
By Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times
September 28, 2011
the controversial psychological thriller "Straw Dogs" and "Lovers and
Other Strangers," a comedy that earned him an Oscar nomination, has
died. He was 81.
progressive supranuclear palsy, a brain disorder, said his daughter,
Kevis Goodman.
and television producer. "He went from biblical scholar [as a young man]
to playwright to television and motion pictures and did some of the best
of the '70s movies. That was when he was really on fire, so to speak."
nomination with Joseph Bologna and Renee Taylor for co-writing the
screenplay for "Lovers and Other Strangers," a 1970 comedy based on
Bologna and Taylor's play.
for "Straw Dogs," the Peckinpah-directed 1971 film starring Dustin
Hoffman as a mild-mannered American mathematician living with his
British wife (Susan George) in an English country village, a location
that proves to be less than tranquil for the couple.
Charles Champlin, then The Times' film critic, as "an overpowering piece of storytelling, certain to remind every viewer of the wells of primal
emotion lurking within himself, beneath the fragile veneer of civilized
control."
1970 western starring Lee Marvin and "Eyes of Laura Mars," a 1978
thriller starring Faye Dunaway.
adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel starring Robert Mitchum as Philip
Marlowe; and "Logan's Run," the 1976 science-fiction film starring
Michael York.
antiwar drama "High Named Today" and episodes of TV's "The
Untouchables," "Combat!" and "Mr. Broadway" in the 1960s.
were having trouble with scripts. He could immediately pinpoint what was
wrong, said Braun, whose work with Goodman included "Freedom Road," a
1979 miniseries with Muhammad Ali and Kris Kristofferson.
his talent," Braun said. "He also had integrity as a person. Anybody who
knew him would tell you that."
from Queens College and studied drama at Yale University.
while continuing to live in New York. In 1999, he and his wife,
Marjorie, moved to Berkeley, where their daughter is an English
professor at UC Berkeley.
survived by his sister, Florence Pirofski.
Born: 1/15/1930, New York City, New York, U.S.A.
Died: 9/26/2011, Oakland, California, U.S.A.
Monte Walsh - 1970
Monte Walsh (TV) - 2003
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