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Louis A. Garfinkle. Louis Alan Garfinkle (1928-2005) was an American scriptwriter and the co-developer of the Collaborator computer screenwriting program. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay with four others for The Deer Hunter. He died of complications from Parkinson's disease at his home in Studio ...
Oct 9, 2005 · Louis Alan Garfinkle, 77, a screenwriter who received an Academy Award nomination for “The Deer Hunter” and who co-created one of the first computer software programs for scriptwriters, died...
Louis Alan Garfinkle (1928-2005) was an American scriptwriter and the co-developer of the Collaborator computer screenwriting program. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay with four others for The Deer Hunter.
Louis Garfinkle was born on 11 February 1928 in Seattle, Washington, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for The Deer Hunter (1978), Beautiful People (1971) and I Bury the Living (1958). He was married to Audrey Elyse Alpert.. He died on 3 October 2005 in Studio City, California, USA.
- Writer, Producer, Director
- February 11, 1928
- Louis Garfinkle
- October 3, 2005
Louis A. Garfinkle, who shared an Academy Award nomination for contributing to the screenplay of director Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter (1978), has passed away on October 3, 2005 in Studio City, CA. He was 77. Garfinkle was born in Seattle, Washington in 1928 and graduated from University of Southern California in 1948.
Face of Fire is a 1959 American drama film directed by Albert Band and written by Louis A. Garfinkle. It is based on the 1898 short story The Monster by Stephen Crane. The film stars Cameron Mitchell, James Whitmore, Bettye Ackerman, Miko Oscard, Royal Dano, Robert F. Simon, Richard Erdman and Howard Smith.
The film was based in part on an unproduced screenplay called The Man Who Came to Play by Louis A. Garfinkle and Quinn K. Redeker about Las Vegas and Russian roulette. Producer Michael Deeley , who bought the script, hired Cimino who, with Deric Washburn , rewrote the script, taking the Russian roulette element and placing it in the Vietnam War.
