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Ernest Thompson (born Richard Ernest Thompson; November 6, 1949) is an American writer, actor, and director. He won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for On Golden Pond, an adaptation of his own play of the same name.
Ernest Thompson is an Oscar-winning screenwriter for On Golden Pond (1981) and a playwright with 37 works performed worldwide. He also acted in two TV series and several movies, and directed Heavenly Angle (2014) and Time and Charges (2013).
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May 28, 2024 · Learn about Ernest Thompson, the novelist, screenwriter, playwright, director, actor, lyricist, speaker and teacher. Explore his work, events, songs, books and more.
Ernest Thompson is the creator of On Golden Pond, the most produced play in the world, and the author of The Book of Maps, a debut novel. He has also written and directed films, songs, and workshops, and received many awards and honors.
Ernest Thompson is an award-winning writer of plays, films and novels. His latest book, The Book of Maps, is a cross-country odyssey of a father and son.
For more than forty years, Ernest has been weaving stories with a unique clarity and un. Ernest Thompson’s work has won an Academy Award, two Golden Globes, Writers Guild and Broadway Drama Guild Awards and been nominated for a Tony, an Emmy and a British Academy Award.
Best known for writing the play On Golden Pond (1979), Ernest Thompson has come to be known as playwright, actor, screen writer, director, producer, mentor, and family man—truly a renaissance man for our season ( http://www.ernestthompson.net ).
