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William Kelley (May 27, 1929 – February 3, 2003) was an American screenwriter and producer for television and film who is best known for his work on the Peter Weir-directed film Witness (1985), which starred Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis, that earned him an Academy Award along with his co-writers Earl W. Wallace and Pamela Wallace.
- American
- February 3, 2003 (aged 73), Bishop, California
- May 27, 1929, New York City, U.S.
William Kelley. Writer: Witness. William Kelley was born on 27 May 1929 in Staten Island, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Witness (1985), Gunsmoke (1955) and How the West Was Won (1976).
- January 1, 1
- Staten Island, New York, USA
- January 1, 1
- Bishop, California, USA
William Kelley, a television and film writer who shared an Academy Award for screenwriting for his work on the 1985 movie “Witness,” has died. He was 73. Kelley died of cancer Monday at his ...
Feb 5, 2003 · William Kelley. Oscar-winning screenwriter-TV scribe-author William Kelley (“Witness”) died Monday of cancer in Bishop, Calif., where he had lived for several years. He was 73. A Staten Island ...
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Jan 22, 2018 · William Melvin Kelley was born on November 1, 1937, at Seaview Hospital, a tuberculosis sanatorium on Staten Island, where his mother, Narcissa Agatha Garcia Kelley, was a patient.
William Melvin Kelley (November 1, 1937 – February 1, 2017) was an African-American novelist and short-story writer. He is perhaps best known for his debut novel, A Different Drummer, published in 1962. [2] [3] He was also a university professor and creative writing instructor. In 2008, he received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Lifetime ...
William Melvin Kelley is a novelist, short fiction writer, and educator. Born in 1937 on Carpenter Avenue in The Bronx, New York, he attended Fieldston School and Harvard University. He has taught literature and writing at the New School for Social Research, the State University of New York at Geneseo, and the University of Paris, Nanterre.
