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  1. February 20, 1945 (age 79) New York City, U.S. Occupation. Screenwriter, author, film director. Education. Binghamton University ( BA) University of Wisconsin–Madison ( PhD) Andrew Bergman (born February 20, 1945) is an American screenwriter, film director, and novelist. His best-known films include Blazing Saddles, The In-Laws, The Freshman ...

  2. Andrew Bergman on Screenwriting. “It’s a Good-Natured Insanity.”. Andrew Bergman on Screenwriting. June 24 , 2016. Once described as “The Unknown King of Comedy” by New York Magazine, Andrew Bergman is a well of comedic charisma. Known for his pen on Blazing Saddles, Fletch, The Freshman, and Honeymoon in Vegas, Bergman’s iconic ...

  3. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Andrew Bergman (20 February 1945) is an American screenwriter, film director, and novelist. New York magazine in 1985 dubbed him "The Unknown King of Comedy". He graduated from Binghamton University and earned a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Wisconsin. His dissertation, a study of Depression-era Hollywood films, was published in 1971 by ...

  4. After The Big Kiss-Off of 1944 (1974) and Hollywood and LeVine (1975), he continued writing and directing f. Andrew Bergman is a successful comedy screenwriter and occasional author of hard-boiled mysteries. After receiving a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Bergman sold Tex X, a novella about a black sheriff ...

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  5. Andrew Bergman: The backstory was I had an idea going back to graduate school in the 60s already when I was in university, Wisconsin. It was a vision I had of a town waiting for a sheriff to show ...

  6. Andrew Bergman (b. 1945) is a successful comedy screenwriter and occasional author of hard-boiled mysteries. After receiving a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Bergman sold Tex X, a novella about a black sheriff in the old west, to Warner Brothers. The studio hired him to turn his story into a screenplay, as ...

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  8. The 26-year-old Bergman, having penned a 90-page treatment about a black militant cowboy entitled "Tex X," found himself collaborating with Richard Pryor and Mel Brooks on what would become the screenplay of "Blazing Saddles" (1974). Bergman received the sole writing credit for "The In-Laws" (1979), a wacky hit starring Peter Falk and Alan Arkin.

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