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Albert Horton Foote Jr. (March 14, 1916 – March 4, 2009) was an American playwright and screenwriter. He received Academy Awards for his screenplays for the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, which was adapted from the 1960 novel of the same name by Harper Lee, [1] and his original screenplay for the film Tender Mercies (1983).
Mar 5, 2009 · Robert Duvall, an actor who was one of Mr. Foote’s most frequent interpreters, making his screen debut in “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1962) and winning an Oscar for best actor in “Tender ...
Mar 4, 2009 · Horton Foote (born March 14, 1916, Wharton, Texas, U.S.—died March 4, 2009, Hartford, Connecticut) was an American playwright and screenwriter who evoked American life in beautifully observed minimal stories and was perhaps best known for his adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird. Foote studied acting at the Pasadena Playhouse in California and ...
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Mar 5, 2009 · Foote emerged on the national scene when he won an Academy Award for his screen adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the 1962 movie based on Harper Lee’s novel about a black man in a ...
Mar 7, 2009 · Horton Foote, writer: born Wharton, Texas 14 March 1916; married 1945 Lillian Vallish (died 1992, two sons, two daughters); died Hartford, Connecticut 5 March 2009. More about Actors And Actresses ...
- Tom Vallance
Mar 4, 2009 · In screenplays for such movies as “Tender Mercies,” “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “The Trip to Bountiful,” and in plays like “The Young Man From Atlanta” and his nine-play cycle “Orphans’ Home,” Mr. Foote depicted the way ordinary people shoulder the ordinary burdens of life, finding drama in the resilience by which they carry on in the face of change, economic hardship ...
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Mar 5, 2009 · Robert Duvall, an actor who was one of Foote's most frequent interpreters, making his screen debut in "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962) and winning an Oscar for best actor in "Tender Mercies" (1983 ...
