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Norman Wexler (August 16, 1926 – August 23, 1999) was an American screenwriter whose work included films such as Saturday Night Fever, Serpico and Joe. A New Bedford, Massachusetts native and 1944 Central High School graduate in Detroit, Wexler attended Harvard University before moving to New York in 1951.
Writer: Serpico. Norman Wexler was born in New Bedford Mass and attended Harvard University. In addition to his acclaim as the writer of Saturday Night Fever, he also suffered from manic depression, and in 1972 was arrested by the FBI for saying he was planning to shoot then-president Nixon.
- Writer
- August 16, 1926
- Norman Wexler
- August 23, 1999
Aug 25, 1999 · Norman Wexler, a playwright and screenwriter whose credits included the scripts for ''Saturday Night Fever'' and ''Serpico,'' died on Monday at his home in Washington....
THE PLAYWRIGHT and screenwriter Norman Wexler won Oscar nominations for writing the films Joe and Serpico, and went on to write one of the biggest hits in Hollywood history, Saturday...
Aug 25, 1999 · Oscar-nominated Norman Wexler, who wrote “Saturday Night Fever,” “Staying Alive” and “Serpico,” died Monday of a heart attack in Washington D.C. He was 73.
Dec 4, 2020 · Norman Wexler, the 42-year-old Harvard-educated advertising executive and unproduced playwright who wrote Joe, had figured out how to bring the Nixon camp’s rhetoric down to the street, and then into the gutter.
Aug 26, 1999 · Norman Wexler, 73, a screenwriter and playwright whose work included "Saturday Night Fever" and "Serpico," died Aug. 23 at his home in Washington after a heart attack. The...
