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Michael Lennox Blake (July 5, 1945 – May 2, 2015) was an American author, best known for the film adaptation of his novel Dances with Wolves, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
- July 5, 1945, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, U.S.
- May 2, 2015 (aged 69), Tucson, Arizona, U.S.
May 5, 2015 · By Bruce Weber. May 4, 2015. Michael Blake, who had been washing dishes in a Chinese restaurant when an old friend, Kevin Costner, asked him to adapt his own novel into a screenplay, which...
May 3, 2015 · Michael Blake, who wrote the novel Dances With Wolves and penned its subsequent film treatment, has died at 69, Variety reports. Blake spent his childhood in Texas and Southern California,...
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Dances with Wolves is a 1990 American epic Western film starring, directed, and produced by Kevin Costner in his feature directorial debut. It is a film adaptation of the 1988 novel Dances with Wolves , by Michael Blake , that tells the story of Union Army Lieutenant John J. Dunbar (Costner), who travels to the American frontier to find a ...
- $424.2 million
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Dances with Wolves is a 1988 American Civil War novel by Michael Blake. Originally written as an unsold spec script, it was converted into a novel at the behest of Kevin Costner; it was adapted into a film of the same name, directed by Costner, in 1990.
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Best-selling Author. Dances With Wolves. Both pursuing their dreams of making movies, Michael Blake and Jim Wilson first met in 1977 while attending the Berkeley Film Institute. After leaving the school, they each went their separate way but a chance meeting reunited them in Los Angeles in 1981where Wilson pitched an idea for a "gambling" movie ...
May 10, 2015 · Michael Blake, who has died of cancer at the age of 69, was a writer whose novel Dances With Wolves became a hit film that earned him an Academy Award for the screenplay. He wrote the book at the...
