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Earl W. Wallace (October 23, 1942 – May 12, 2018) was an American screen and television writer who began his career in the 1970s writing episodes of the hit CBS Western series Gunsmoke, one of which inspired him, his wife Pamela, and William Kelley to develop the screenplay for the 1985 film Witness. [1] [2]
Earl W. Wallace was an American screen and television writer who began his career in the 1970s writing episodes of the hit CBS Western series Gunsmoke, one of which inspired him, his wife Pamela, and William Kelley to develop the screenplay for the 1985 film Witness.
Earl W. Wallace was born on 23 October 1942. He was a writer, known for Witness (1985), How the West Was Won (1976) and Supertrain (1979). He was married to Pamela Wallace.
- Earl W. Wallace
- May 12, 2018
- October 23, 1942
Witness is a 1985 American neo-noir crime thriller film [1] directed by Peter Weir. The film stars Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis, with Josef Sommer, Lukas Haas, Jan Rubeš, Danny Glover, Alexander Godunov, Patti LuPone and Viggo Mortensen (in his feature film debut).
The script was initially named Called Home and was written by William Kelley and Earl W. Wallace, based on a story they developed with Pamela Wallace. They based the script on an episode of the acclaimed TV show Gunsmoke they wrote a decade earlier.
Feb 8, 2003 · William Kelley, a television and film writer who shared an Academy Award for screenwriting for his work on the 1985 movie “Witness,” has died. He was 73. Kelley died of cancer Monday at his home...
May 23, 2022 · Paramount. There wasn't a more unhip screenplay floating around Hollywood in the early 1980s than "Witness." William Kelley and Earl W. Wallace derived their story from a 1970s "Gunsmoke"...
