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      • Alvin Sargent, a versatile and prolific screenwriter whose work spanned a wide range of genres and who won two Oscars for the films “Julia” and “Ordinary People,” has died at age 92. Sargent died of natural causes on Thursday at his home in Seattle, his representatives confirmed.
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  2. Alvin Sargent (April 12, 1927 – May 9, 2019) was an American screenwriter. He won two Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay, for Julia (1977), and Ordinary People (1980).

  3. May 10, 2019 · Alvin Sargent, the master of the adapted screenplay who won Oscars for Julia and Ordinary People in a fabled career that ran the gamut from Ben Casey and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour to The Amazing...

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  4. May 11, 2019 · Alvin Sargent, a versatile and prolific screenwriter whose work spanned a wide range of genres and who won two Oscars for the films “Julia” and “Ordinary People,” has died at age 92. Sargent...

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  5. May 15, 2019 · Wed 15 May 2019 12.15 EDT. Screenwriters don’t come much more versatile, industrious or enduring than Alvin Sargent, who has died aged 92. His career incorporated everything from prestigious...

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  6. May 11, 2019 · Academy Award winner Alvin Sargent, who penned an extraordinary number of popular and critically successful films, from “Paper Moon” and “Ordinary People” to the “Spider-Man” sequels of the 2000s,...

  7. May 11, 2019 · Alvin Sargent, who won Oscars for writing Ordinary People and Julia and was nominated for Paper Moon, has died of natural causes in Seattle. He was 92. Sargent also won WGA Awards for all...

  8. Alvin Sargent, the storied screenwriter best known for his Academy Award-winning script for “Ordinary People” and his Oscar-nominated “Paper Moon,” died Thursday of natural causes in Seattle. He...