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Melissa Marie Mathison (June 3, 1950 – November 4, 2015) was an American film and television screenwriter and an activist for the Tibetan independence movement. She was best known for writing the screenplays for the films The Black Stallion (1979) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), the latter of which earned her the Saturn Award for Best ...
Nov 5, 2015 · Advertisement. Mathison, 65, who portrayed children as sensitively heroic, died Wednesday at UCLA Medical Center. The cause was neuroendocrine cancer, her brother Dirk Mathison said....
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Melissa Mathison was a screenwriter and producer who worked on films such as E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, The BFG and Kundun. She was married to Harrison Ford and died in 2015 from neuroendocrine cancer.
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Nov 5, 2015 · Melissa Mathison, E.T screenwriter and Harrison Ford’s ex-wife, died Wednesday in Los Angeles. She was 65. Mathison’s brother Dirk confirmed the news to Variety, stating that Mathison passed...
Melissa Mathison was a writer and producer of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, The BFG and Kundun. She was born in 1950 in Los Angeles, married to Harrison Ford and died in 2015.
- June 3, 1950
- November 4, 2015
Nov 5, 2015 · LOS ANGELES (AP) — Melissa Mathison, the screenwriter who crafted the enchanting worlds of iconic family films including “E.T. the Extra Terrestrial,” has died. She passed away Wednesday at age 65 after a bout with neuroendocrine cancer, her sister, Melinda Mathison Johnson, confirmed.
Nov 6, 2015 · Nov. 5, 2015. Melissa Mathison, who wrote the screenplay for “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,” the science-fiction fable that became one of Hollywood’s signature depictions of the anxieties and...
