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American playwright and screenwriter (1937–1998)
James Goldman
Born James Adolf Goldman
(1927-06-30 ) June 30, 1927Died October 28, 1998(1998-10-28) (aged 71) Nationality American Spouses
Marie McKeon
(
m. 1962;
div. 1972)
Barbara Goldman
(
m. 1975)
Children 2
James Adolf Goldman [
citation needed ] (June 30, 1927 – October 28, 1998) was an American
playwright and
screenwriter . He won an Academy Award for his screenplay
The Lion in Winter (1968). His younger brother was novelist and screenwriter
William Goldman .
Biography
Born in June 30, 1927, the first son of a
Jewish family
[1] in
Chicago ,
Illinois , Goldman grew up primarily in
Highland Park, Illinois , a Chicago suburb. He is most noted as the playwright of
The Lion in Winter and for writing the screenplay of
its 1968 film adaptation , for which he received an
Academy Award . He also wrote the book for the Broadway musical
Follies (1971), which was nominated for a
Tony Award .
He attended the
University of Chicago and
Columbia University , earning a master’s degree and studying music criticism.
[2]
[3] In 1952, Goldman was drafted into the
U.S. Army .
[2] After his discharge in 1954, he pursued a career as a playwright.
Goldman died in 1998 from a
heart attack in
New York City .
[3] He had lived there for many years.
Works
Theatre
Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole (1961), with
William Goldman
They Might Be Giants (1961), London
[4]
A Family Affair (1962), musical, book only (lyrics by
William Goldman , music by
John Kander )
The Lion in Winter (1966, revived 1999)
Follies (1971, revived 2001 and 2011), musical, book only (lyrics and music by
Stephen Sondheim ),
Tony nomination for
Best Book of a Musical
Tolstoy (1996)
Film and television
Novels
Waldorf (1965)
The Man From Greek and Roman (1974)
Myself as Witness (1979)
Fulton County (1989)
References
External links
1928–1950
Benjamin Glazer (1928)
Hanns Kräly (1929)
Frances Marion (1930)
Howard Estabrook (1931)
Edwin J. Burke (1932)
Victor Heerman and
Sarah Y. Mason (1933)
Robert Riskin (1934)
Dudley Nichols (1935)
Pierre Collings and
Sheridan Gibney (1936)
Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, and
Norman Reilly Raine (1937)
Ian Dalrymple ,
Cecil Arthur Lewis ,
W. P. Lipscomb , and
George Bernard Shaw (1938)
Sidney Howard (1939)
Donald Ogden Stewart (1940)
Sidney Buchman and
Seton I. Miller (1941)
George Froeschel ,
James Hilton ,
Claudine West , and
Arthur Wimperis (1942)
Philip G. Epstein ,
Julius J. Epstein , and
Howard Koch (1943)
Frank Butler and
Frank Cavett (1944)
Charles Brackett and
Billy Wilder (1945)
Robert Sherwood (1946)
George Seaton (1947)
John Huston (1948)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1949)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950)
1951–1975 1976–2000 2001–present
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