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Kurt Luedtke (/ ˈ l uː t k i /; September 28, 1939 – August 9, 2020) was an American screenwriter and executive editor of the Detroit Free Press. He wrote Out of Africa (1985), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Aug 13, 2020 · Kurt Luedtke, a former newspaper executive who forged a successful second career writing Hollywood screenplays, notably for “Absence of Malice” and the Oscar-winning “Out of Africa,” died on...
Aug 9, 2020 · Kurt Luedtke, the former Detroit Free Press executive editor who went on to win an Academy Award for his "Out of Africa" screenplay, has died. He was 80. Luedtke, after a long illness, died...
- Tim Kiska
Aug 10, 2020 · By Dave McNary. ASSOCIATED PRESS. Kurt Luedtke, who left journalism for Hollywood and won an Academy Award for his “ Out of Africa ” screenplay, died Sunday in Michigan after a long illness. He...
Kurt Luedtke, who rose to be the top editor of a major American newspaper by the age of 33 and then abruptly left journalism to become an Oscar-winning Hollywood screenwriter on films such as...
Aug 11, 2020 · Kurt Luedtke, who relinquished a top perch in journalism for a pipe dream of screenwriting, only to earn an Oscar nod for his first script, the newspaper and legal thriller “ Absence of...
Aug 12, 2020 · Kurt Luedtke relinquished a top perch in journalism for a pipe dream of screenwriting, only to earn an Oscar nod for his first script, the newspaper and legal thriller Absence of Malice, and a...
