Showing posts with label William Goldman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Goldman. Show all posts

Monday, August 12, 2024

Born on this day – William Goldman:


William Goldman

Writer

August 12, 1931 – November 16, 2018

Credits:

Books:

Absolute Power (1997); Adventures in the Screen Trade (1983); Blood Sweat and Stanley Poole (1962); Boys and Girls Together (1969); Brothers (1986); Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (1969); Control (1982); Father's Day (1971); Five Screenplays with Essays (1984); Four Screenplays with Essays (1994); Heat / aka Edged Weapons (1985); Hype and Glory (1990); Magic (1976); Marathon Man (1974); No Way to Treat A Lady (1964); Soldier in the Rain (1963); The Best of All Possible Worlds (1980); The Big Picture (2000); The Color of Light (1984); The Great Waldo Pepper (1975); The Princess Bride (1973); The Season (1969); The Silent Gondoliers (1983); The Temple of Gold (1957); The Thing of It Is... (1967); Tinsel (1979); Wait Till Next Year (1988); Which Lie Did I Tell? (2000); Wigger (1974); Your Turn to Curtsy, My Turn to Bow (1958).

Movies and television:

5 Minutes (2018); A Bridge Too Far (1977); A Cinematic Life: The Art & Influence of Conrad Hall (2010); A Few Good Men (1992); Absolute Power (1997); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes: America's Greatest Quips, Comebacks and Catchphrases (2005); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies (1998); All Aboard: Riding the Rails of American Film (1993); All of What Follows Is True: The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (2006); All the President's Men (1976); Amateur (2005); American Experience (2002); American Masters (2000); Animaniacs (2020–2023); Arena (2000); As You Wish: The Story of 'The Princess Bride' (2001); Be Water / 30 for 30 (2014); Biography (1995–2000); Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979); Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969); Chaplin (1992); Charlie Rose (1997); Checkpoint Echo (2006); Da Vinci (1996); Dateline NBC (2006); Dolores Claiborne (1995); Dreamcatcher (2003); Fierce Creatures (1997); Film Genre (2002); Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light (2006); Fry's Planet Word (2011); Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man' (2001); Good Will Hunting (1997); Harper (1966); HBO First Look (2003); Hearts in Atlantis (2001); Heat (1986); History vs. Hollywood (2001); Hollywood Insider (2021); Home Movie: The Princess Bride (2020); Inside the Actors Studio (1994); Last Action Hero (1993); Magic (1978); Malice (1993); Marathon Man (1976); Masquerade (1965); Maverick (1994); Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992); Minty Comedic Arts (2019); Miracles and Mystery: Creating 'the Green Mile' (2006); Misery (1990); Misery Loves Company (2002); Movie Night Extravaganza (2022); Moving Pictures (1990); Mr. Horn (1979); NBA 100 Greatest Plays (1999); No Way to Treat a Lady (1968); On Location with 'Gunga Din' (2004); Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat (2006); Papillon (1973); Pierrot the Fool / Cannes Film Festival (1988); Richard Attenborough: A Life (2014); Screenwriters: Word Into Image (1982); Screenwriting for Dummies (2006); ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (2007); Soldier in the Rain (1963); Tales from the Script (2009); Talking Pictures (1988); TCM Remembers 2018 (2018); Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of 'All the President's Men' (2006); The 45th Annual Academy Awards (1973); The 49th Annual Academy Awards (1977); The Chamber (1996); The Garden's Defining Moments (2015); The General's Daughter (1999); The Ghost and the Darkness (1996); The Gospel According to Bill (2010); The Great Waldo Pepper (1975); The Hot Rock (1972); The Human Face (2001); The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (1970); The Oscars (2019); The Princess Bride (1987 / 1999 / 2012); The Princess Bride Making Of (1987); The South Bank Show (1990–2009); The Stepford Wives (1975); The War of the Roses (1989); True Love: The Princess Bride Phenomenon - Entering the Zeitgeist (2012); Twins (1988); Under Suspicion (2000); Wild Card (2015); Year of the Comet (1992).

Friday, February 23, 2024

On this day in movie history - Harper (1966):


Harper,
directed by Jack Smight,
written by William Goldman,
based on the novel The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald,
was released in the United States on February 23, 1966.
Music by Johnny Mandel.


Cast:
Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill, Janet Leigh, Pamela Tiffin, Robert Wagner, Robert Webber, Shelley Winters, Harold Gould, Roy Jenson, Strother Martin.