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Calder Baynard Willingham Jr. (December 23, 1922 – February 19, 1995) was an American novelist and screenwriter. Before the age of 30, after three novels and a collection of short stories, The New Yorker was describing Willingham as having “fathered modern black comedy ,” [2] his signature a dry, straight-faced humor, made funnier by its ...
- Fiction, screenwriting, short story
- Calder Baynard Willingham Jr., December 23, 1922, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- English
- February 19, 1995 (aged 72), Laconia, New Hampshire, United States
Feb 21, 1995 · Calder Willingham, the novelist and screenwriter whose first book, "End as a Man," made him a literary star at 24, died on Sunday at the Lakes Region General Hospital in Laconia, N.H. He was 72 ...
Sep 1, 2005 · Calder Willingham was a novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who created some of the most memorable characters in the American cinematic and literary canons. He wrote several novels set in the South, such as Eternal Fire and Rambling Rose, and adapted several films, such as The Graduate and Little Big Man. He died of lung cancer in 1995.
Calder Willingham. Writer: The Graduate. Calder Willingham was born on 23 December 1922 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He was a writer, known for The Graduate (1967), Paths of Glory (1957) and Little Big Man (1970).
- Writer
- December 23, 1922
- Calder Willingham
- February 21, 1995
The Graduate. The Graduate is a 1967 American independent [6] romantic comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols [7] and written by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham, [8] based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Charles Webb, who wrote it shortly after graduating from Williams College.
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Calder Willingham, Jr. was a witty and influential writer of novels, screenplays and short stories. He published ten novels, including Eternal Fire and Rambling Rose, and adapted several films from his own works. He was influenced by Erskine Caldwell and William Faulkner, and wrote about love, sex and humor in the 1930s South.
Calder Willingham. Georgia native Calder Willingham, shown circa 1970, wrote novels, plays, and screenplays. His screenplay for The Graduate (1967), cowritten with Buck Henry, was nominated for an Academy Award. Willingham also wrote many other scripts, including The Strange One (1957), which was an adapation of his first novel, End as a Man ...
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