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  1. George Ames Plimpton (March 18, 1927 – September 25, 2003) was an American writer. He is known for his sports writing and for helping to found The Paris Review, as well as his patrician demeanor and accent.He was known for "participatory journalism," including accounts of his active involvement in professional sporting events, acting in a Western, performing a comedy act at Caesars Palace in ...

  2. Apr 9, 2014 · Biography courtesy of The Paris Review.. George Plimpton (1927–2003) was the editor of The Paris Review from its founding in 1953 until his death in 2003. A graduate of Harvard University and ...

  3. George Plimpton. Actor: Good Will Hunting. George Plimpton was born on 18 March 1927 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Good Will Hunting (1997), Nixon (1995) and Just Cause (1995). He was married to Sara Whitehead Dudley and Freddy Medora Espy. He died on 26 September 2003 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

  4. Sep 26, 2003 · George Ames Plimpton was born in New York on March 18, 1927, the son of Francis T. Plimpton, a successful corporate lawyer who became the American ambassador to the United Nations.

  5. Sep 27, 2003 · George Plimpton, the New York aristocrat and literary journalist whose career was a happy lifelong competition between scholarly pursuits and madcap attempts -- chronicled in self-deprecating ...

  6. May 22, 2013 · A new documentary about writer George Plimpton uses its subject's own voice to tell the story of his career as a path-breaking "participatory journalist" and longtime editor of the Paris Review.

  7. Dec 23, 2008 · George Plimpton was a literary man about town who did it all, from co-founding The Paris Review to boxing (and dribbling and quarterbacking) with the pros. Now, in George, Being George, 200 ...

  8. George Plimpton. Actor: Good Will Hunting. George Plimpton was born on 18 March 1927 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Good Will Hunting (1997), Nixon (1995) and Just Cause (1995). He was married to Sara Whitehead Dudley and Freddy Medora Espy. He died on 26 September 2003 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

  9. Sep 28, 2003 · Signed Talk obituary for George Plimpton... George Plimpton, who died last week, was a serious man of serious accomplishments who just happened to have …

  10. Oct 20, 2008 · No wonder Philip Roth, in his novel “Exit Ghost,” made an elegiac set-piece of the death, at seventy-six, in 2003, of George Plimpton—the aristocratic, Zelig-like, heron-resembling founder ...