William Goldman (August 12, 1931 – November 16, 2018) was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He first came to prominence in the 1950s...
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William Mark Goldman (born 1955 in Kansas City, Missouri) is a professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park (since 1986). He received...
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Goldman is a Jewish surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alan H. Goldman (born 1945), American philosopher Alan S. Goldman (born 1958), American...
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William Goldman (1931–2018) was an American novelist, playwright and screenwriter. William or Bill Goldman may also refer to: William Goldman (photographer)...
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from Norman Lear, who owned the rights to the film, and the estate of William Goldman, which controlled the rights to the original story. Reitman was also...
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novelist and screenwriter William Goldman. Born in June 30, 1927, the first son of a Jewish family in Chicago, Illinois, Goldman grew up primarily in Highland...
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contract for Castle Rock Entertainment, where he befriended colleagues William Goldman and Rob Reiner, and met his future wife Julia Bingham, who was one...
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The Princess Bride (novel) (category Novels by William Goldman)
Parts" Version is a 1973 fantasy romance novel by American writer William Goldman. The book combines elements of comedy, adventure, fantasy, drama, romance...
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Misery (film) (category Films with screenplays by William Goldman)
psychological horror thriller film directed by Rob Reiner from a script by William Goldman, based on Stephen King's 1987 novel of the same name, The plot centers...
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Inigo Montoya is a fictional character in William Goldman's 1973 novel The Princess Bride. In Rob Reiner's 1987 film adaptation, he was portrayed by Mandy...
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The Princess Bride (film) (category Films based on works by William Goldman)
Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, and André the Giant. Adapted by William Goldman from his 1973 novel, it tells the story of a swashbuckling farmhand...
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William I. Goldman (March 27, 1856 – January 25, 1922) was an American commercial photographer based in Reading, Pennsylvania. A freemason and pillar of...
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (category Films with screenplays by William Goldman)
American Western buddy film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman. Based loosely on fact, the film tells the story of Wild West outlaws...
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All the President's Men (film) (category Films with screenplays by William Goldman)
of Richard Nixon. Directed by Alan J. Pakula, with a screenplay by William Goldman, it is based on the 1974 non-fiction book by Carl Bernstein and Bob...
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Princess Bride (1987), which was based on the novel of the same name by William Goldman. It was a modest box office success, but received critical acclaim...
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Marathon Man (novel) (category Novels by William Goldman)
Marathon Man is a 1974 conspiracy thriller novel by William Goldman. It was Goldman's most successful thriller novel, and his second suspense novel. In...
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Ronald Lyle Goldman (July 2, 1968 – June 12, 1994) was an American restaurant waiter and aspiring actor. A volunteer working with children suffering from...
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Marathon Man (film) (category Films based on works by William Goldman)
was adapted by William Goldman from his 1974 novel of the same title and stars Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane and Marthe...
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adapted into a film in 1990, directed by Rob Reiner and written by William Goldman. James Caan and Kathy Bates starred as Paul Sheldon and Annie Wilkes...
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Ride the High Country (category Films with screenplays by William Roberts (screenwriter))
- TCM.com Meyer, William R. (1979), The Making of the Great Westerns, Arlington House, p. 321, ISBN 978-0-87000-431-5 William Goldman, The Big Picture...
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Heat is a 1985 novel by William Goldman about a soldier of fortune in Las Vegas. The novel is about a man named Nick Escalante, nicknamed "the Mex" by...
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Marcus Goldman (born Marcus Goldmann; December 9, 1821 – July 20, 1904) was an American investment banker, businessman, and financier. He was the founder...
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A Bridge Too Far (film) (category Films with screenplays by William Goldman)
Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II; the film's screenplay, by William Goldman, is based on a book of the same title by historian Cornelius Ryan....
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David Gabai, William Goldman, Benson Farb, Richard Kenyon, Steven Kerckhoff, Yair Minsky, Igor Rivin, Oded Schramm, Richard Schwartz, William Floyd, and...
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Harper (film) (category Films with screenplays by William Goldman)
mystery thriller film directed by Jack Smight from a screenplay by William Goldman, based on the 1949 novel The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald. The film...
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project fell through; Johnson acts as an executive producer on Shazam! William Goldman, Alec Sokolow, Joel Cohen, Bill Birch, and Geoff Johns, among others...
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The Stepford Wives (1975 film) (category Films with screenplays by William Goldman)
psychological thriller film directed by Bryan Forbes. It was written by William Goldman, who based his screenplay on Ira Levin's 1972 novel of the same name...
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Wild Card (2015 film) (category Films with screenplays by William Goldman)
Garcia-Lorido, Anne Heche, and Sofia Vergara. Based on the 1985 novel Heat by William Goldman, it is a remake of the 1986 adaptation that starred Burt Reynolds....
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The Ghost and the Darkness (category Films with screenplays by William Goldman)
starring Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas. The screenplay, written by William Goldman, is a fictionalized account of the Tsavo man-eaters, a pair of male...
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co-chair for 10 years. The group included Ilene (Jones) Goldman (then-wife of screenwriter William Goldman), author Linda Stewart (who acted as editor and a...
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