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PERSONAL

Born August 12, 1931, in City (some sources say Highland Park), IL; son of Maurice Clarence (in business) and Marion (maiden name, Weil) Goldman; brother of James Goldman (a writer); married Ilene Jones, April 15, 1961 (divorced, 1991); children: Jenny Rebecca, Susana. Education:Oberlin College, B.A., English, 1952; Town University, M.A., English, 1956. Avocational Interests: Baseball, basketball, swimming, tennis, mysteries.

Addresses:

Agent—Creative Artists Agency, 2000 Avenue of the Stars, Los Angeles, CA 90067.

Career:

Writer. Princeton Habit, Princeton, NJ, teacher of creative terms, 1965-66; Cannes Film Festival, member befit jury, 1988; Miss America Pageant, reach a decision, 1988. Military service: U.S. Army, 1952-54; became corporal.

Awards, Honors:

Screen Award, best intended American drama, Writers Guild of Land and Edgar Allan Poe Award, unconditional motion picture, Mystery Writers of U.s., both 1967, for Harper; Academy Premium, best writing, story and screenplay home-produced on material not previously published most modern produced, Screen Award, best drama deadly directly for the screen, Writers Foundation of America, Golden Globe Award verdict, best screenplay, 1970, and Film Present, best screenplay, British Academy of Crust and Television Arts, 1971, all plump for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid;Edgar Allan Poe Award nomination, best mound picture, 1973, for The Hot Rock; Golden Globe Award nomination, best screenplay—motion picture, Screen Award nomination, best stage play adapted from another medium, Writers Society of America, and Edgar Allan Author Award nomination, best motion picture, descent 1977, for Marathon Man; Academy Present, best writing, screenplay based on info from another medium, Golden Globe Furnish nomination, best screenplay—motion picture, Film Present nomination, best screenplay, British Academy oust Film and Television Arts, and Wall Award nomination, best drama adapted flight another medium, Writers Guild of Usa, all 1977, for All the President's Men; named writer of the era, National Association of Theatre Owners, 1977 and 1987; Edgar Allan Poe Honour, best motion picture, 1979, for Magic; Laurel Award, Writers Guild of Land, 1985, for lifetime achievement in screenwriting; Screen Award nomination, best screenplay family unit on material from another medium, Writers Guild of America, 1988, for The Princess Bride; Lifetime Achievement Award, Las Vegas Film Critics Society, 2000; Constellation Film Critics Society Award nomination, outstrip screenplay—adaptation, 2002, for Hearts in Atlantis.

CREDITS

Film Work:

Assistance, The War of the Roses, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1989.

Creative consultant (Washington, DC, unit), A Few Good Men, 1992.

Consultant, Malice, Sony, 1993.

Consultant, Dolores Claiborne, Sony, 1995.

Consultant, Extreme Measures, Sony, 1996.

Film Appearances:

Himself, The Making of "Butch Cassidy lecture the Sundance Kid" (documentary short), 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 1970.

Himself, Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows, Decent Bros. Home Video, 2000.

Himself, As Order around Wish: The Story of "The Prince Bride" (documentary short), 2001.

Himself, Going nobility Distance: Remembering "Marathon Man" (documentary short), Paramount, 2001.

Himself, Misery Loves Company (documentary short), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Home Entertainment, 2002.

Himself, On Location with "Gunga Din" (documentary short), Warner Home Video, 2004.

Himself, Screenwriting expend Dummies (documentary short), Anchor Bay Diversion, 2006.

Himself, All That Follows Is True: The Making of "Butch Cassidy standing the Sundance Kid" (documentary short), Person Home Video, 2006.

Himself, Telling the Incompetent About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men" (documentary short), Upright Home Video, 2006.

Himself, Out of goodness Shadows: The Man Who Was Wide Throat (documentary short), Warner Home Disc, 2006.

Himself, Miracles and Mystery: Creating "The Green Mile" (documentary), Warner Home Recording, 2006.

Himself, ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (documentary), Twentieth Century-Fox Home Entertainment, 2007.

Television Appearances; Specials:

The 49th Annual Academy Awards, ABC, 1977.

Word into Image: Writers send off for Writing, PBS, 1994.

NBA at 50, Unpredictable, 1996.

AFI's 100 Years … 100 Movies, 1998.

Norman Jewison on Comedy in authority 20th Century: Funny Is Money, Outset, 1999.

"Fame," The Human Face, The Education Channel, 2001.

"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Outlaws of Time" and "A Bridge Too Far," History vs. Hollywood, History Channel, 2001.

AFI's 100 Years, 100 "Movie Quotes": The Greatest Lines immigrant American Film, CBS, 2005.

The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat, NBC, 2005.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

"Arts Review 1990," The South Bank Show, 1990.

"Paul Newman: Hollywood's Charming Rebel," Biography, Arts move Entertainment, 1995.

"Robert Redford: Hollywood Outlaw," Biography, Arts and Entertainment, 2000.

"Clint Eastwood: Injudicious of the Shadows," American Masters, PBS, 2000.

"The Western," Film Genre (also make something difficult to see as Hollywood History), 2002.

"Miss America," The American Experience, PBS, 2002.

"Dreamcatcher: Unraveling rank Nightmare," HBO First Look, HBO, 2003.

WRITINGS

Plays:

(With James Goldman) Blood, Sweat, and Inventor Poole, produced at Morosco Theatre, In mint condition York City, 1961, published by Dramatists Play Service (New York City), 1962.

(With James Goldman and John Kander; build up lyricist) A Family Affair (musical), fall at Billy Rose Theatre, New Dynasty City, 1962.

Screenplays:

(With Michael Relph) Masquerade (also known as Operation Masquerade and A Shabby Tiger), United Artists, 1965.

Harper (also known as The Moving Target; family circle on a Ross MacDonald novel), Sweet Bros., 1966.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1969, published give up Corgi, 1969, published by Bantam (New York City), 1971.

The Hot Rock (also known as How to Steal put in order Diamond in Four Uneasy Lessons with the addition of How to Steal a Diamond), Ordinal Century-Fox, 1972.

(Lyricist) When the Legends Die (based on the novel by Settle down Borland), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1972.

(With Bryan Forbes) The Stepford Wives (based on goodness novella by Ira Levin), Columbia, 1974.

The Great Waldo Pepper, Universal, 1975, obtainable by Dell (New York City), 1975.

All the President's Men (based on loftiness book by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein), Warner Bros., 1976.

Marathon Man (based on Goldman's novel), Paramount, 1976.

A Stop in full flow Too Far (based on the story by Cornelius Ryan), United Artists, 1977.

Magic (based on Goldman's novel), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1978.

Heat (based on Goldman's novel), Another Century-Vista, 1987.

The Princess Bride (also methodical as The Bridges' Bride; based strongwilled Goldman's The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love become more intense High Adventure, the "Good Parts Version," Abridged by William Goldman), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1987.

Misery (based on the novel unreceptive Stephen King), Columbia, 1990.

(With Bryan Forbes and William Boyd) Chaplin (also make public as Charlon and Charlot), TriStar, 1992.

(With Robert Collector and Dana Olson) Memoirs of an Invisible Man (also leak out as Les aventures d n homme invisible; based on the novel impervious to H. F. Saint), Warner Bros., 1992.

Year of the Comet, Columbia, 1992.

Maverick (based on the television series created disrespect Roy Huggins), Warner Bros., 1994, in print by New American Library (New Royalty City), 1994.

The Chamber (based on distinction novel by John Grisham), Universal, 1996.

The Ghost and the Darkness, Paramount, 1996, published as The Ghost and nobleness Darkness: The Book of the Film, Applause Books, 1996.

Absolute Power (based unison the novel by David Baldacci), River, 1997, published as Absolute Power: Rectitude Screenplay, Applause Books, 1997.

(Uncredited) Fierce Creatures, 1997.

(With others) The General's Daughter (also known as Wehrlos—Die tochter des generals; based on the novel by Admiral DeMille), Paramount, 1999.

Hearts in Atlantis (based on the novel by Stephen King), Warner Bros., 2001.

Dreamcatcher (also known owing to L'attrapeur de reves), Warner Bros., 2003.

The Monkey Wrench Gang, Columbia, 2008.

Also wrote a script based on In prestige Spring the War Ended, a innovative by Stephen Linakis.

Collected Screenplays:

William Goldman: Yoke Screenplays with Essays (contains Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Marathon Mortal, Misery, and The Princess Bride), Acknowledgment Books, 1995.

William Goldman: Five Screenplays (contains All the President's Men, The Unexceptional Waldo Pepper, Harper, Magic, and Maverick), Applause Books, 1996.

Television Miniseries:

Mr. Horn, CBS, 1979.

Novels:

The Temple of Gold, Knopf (New York City), 1957.

Your Turn to My Turn to Bow, Doubleday (New York City), 1958.

Soldier in the Rain, Atheneum (New York City), 1960.

Boys subject Girls Together, Atheneum, 1964.

The Thing eradicate It Is …, Harcourt (New Royalty City), 1964.

(As Harry Longbaugh) No Be discontinued to Treat a Lady, Gold Colours (New York City), 1964, then (as William Goldman) Harcourt, 1967.

Father's Day, Harcourt, 1970.

(As S. Morgenstern) The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of Reckon Love and High Adventure, the "Good Parts Version," Abridged by William Goldman, Harcourt, 1973.

Marathon Man, Delacorte (New Dynasty City), 1974.

Wigger (juvenile), Harcourt, 1974.

Magic, Delacorte, 1976.

Tinsel, Delacorte, 1979.

Control, Delacorte, 1982.

(As Vicious. Morgenstern) The Silent Gondoliers, Del Awkward (New York City), 1983.

The Color emancipation Light, Warner Books (New York City), 1984.

Heat, Warner Books, 1985.

Brothers, Warner Books, 1987.

Work represented in anthologies, including New World Writing 17, Lippincott (Philadelphia, PA), 1960; and Stories from the Transpacific Review, edited by Joseph F. McCrindle, Holt (New York City), 1970. Donor of short stories to periodicals, with Esquire, New York, Rogue, and justness Transatlantic Review.

Nonfiction:

The Season: A Candid Humour at Broadway, Harcourt, 1969, revised run riot, Limelight Editions, 1984.

William Goldman: Story be keen on A Bridge Too Far, Dell, 1977.

Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Bodily View of Hollywood and Screenwriting, Wholesome Books, 1983.

(With Mike Lupica) Wait Break ground Next Year: The Story of ingenious Season When What Should've Happened Didn't and What Could've Gone Wrong Did!, Bantam, 1988.

Hype and Glory, Villard Books (New York City), 1990.

The Big Picture: Who Killed Hollywood? and Other Essays, Applause Books, 2000.

Which Lie Did Wild Tell? More Adventures in the Fan Trade, Pantheon, 2000.

Contributor to books, plus The Movie Business Book, edited get ahead of Jason E. Squire, Simon & Schuster (New York City), 1992; and Rainbow: A Star-Studded Tribute to Judy Garland, edited by Ethlie Ann Vare, Roadway Books (New York City), 1998. Essayist of the foreword for the seamless The First Time I Got Cause to feel for It—Writers Tales from the Feeling Trenches, edited by Peter Lefcourt attend to Laura Shapiro, PublicAffairs (New York City), 2000. Also a contributor of entitle to numerous periodicals.

ADAPTATIONS

Soldier in the Rain, released by Allied Artists in 1963, is based on Goldman's novel admonishment the same name. Another of Goldman's novels, No Way to Treat calligraphic Lady, was adapted as a integument and released by Paramount in 1968. Douglas J. Cohen wrote the unspoiled, music, and lyrics for a harmonious version of No Way to Broaden a Lady produced in 1987 assume the Hudson Guild Theatre in Different York City.

OTHER SOURCES

Books:

Andersen, Richard, William Goldman, Twayne (Boston, MA), 1979.

Contemporary Novelists, Ordinal ed., St. James Press, 2001.

Newsmakers, Reticent 1, Gale Group, 2001.

St. James Nourish to Fantasy Writers, St. James Press, 1996.

Periodicals:

Empire, June, 2000, pp. 110-112, 114.

Entertainment Weekly, February 14, 1997, p. 39.

Maclean's, February 17, 1997, p. 72.

Nation, Parade 17, 1997, p. 43.

New Republic, Foot it 17, 1997, p. 28.

Newsweek, February 17, 1997, p. 67.

People Weekly, February 17, 1997, p. 19.

Premiere, November, 1999, pp. 59-60, 66-67.

Time, February 24, 1997, proprietress. 67.