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William Goldman

Screenwriter

Born - 12 August 1931, Highland Park, Illinois, USA
Died - 16 November 2018

Good-looking (a little like Christopher Walken) American novelist, playwright and screenwriter who won Oscars for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and All the President's Men (1976). Other movies include Masquerade (1964), Harper/The Moving Target (1966), The Hot Rock/How to Steal a Diamond in Four Uneasy Lessons (1972), Marathon Man (1976), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Magic (1978), Heat (1986), The Princess Bride (1987), Misery (1990), Chaplin (1992), Absolute Power (1997), The General's Daughter (1999), Dreamcatcher (2003) and Wild Card (2015), his last. He died from colon cancer and pneumonia complications.