Alvin Sargent

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Biography

He honed his craft penning teleplays for such early 1960s series as "Alfred Hitchcock Presents". "Naked City", "Route 66" and "Ben Casey". Segueing to features in 1966, he shared screen credit on the Shirley MacLaine-Michael Caine vehicle "Gambit". Sargent went on to distinguish himself as a fine adapter of literary material. While his produced oeuvre is not terribly prolific, it has yielded a number of gems and the screenwriter has proven …
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Job Title

Writer, Consultants & Advisors

Born

April 12, 1927

LATEST CREDITS

The Stalking Moon

Screenplay

Paper Moon

Screenplay

I Walk the Line

Screenplay

Ordinary People

Screenplay

Julia

Screenplay

The Search

Writer

Love, Pain and the Whole Damned Thing

Screenplay

Nuts

Screenplay

Footsteps

Screenplay

Bogus

Screenplay

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

Screenplay

The Impatient Heart

Screenplay

Anywhere But Here

Screenplay

The Sterile Cuckoo

Screenplay

Other People's Money

Screenplay

Bobby Deerfield

Screenplay

White Palace

Screenplay

Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (Remake)

Screenplay

Madly In Love

Screenplay

Gambit

Screenplay

Unfaithful

Screenplay

The Amazing Spider-Man

Screenplay

Dominick and Eugene

Screenplay

Straight Time

Screenplay

Spider-Man 3

Screenplay