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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.
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- August 16, 1926
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- August 23, 1999
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 Night...
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, a screenwriter who earned Academy Award nominations for his “Joe” and “Serpico” scripts and was remembered for his screenplay of “Saturday Night Fever,” which made John Travolta a...
Norman Wexler, the playwright and screenwriter whose script for "Saturday Night Fever" is the basis for the hit London and upcoming Broadway musical, died Aug. 23 in Washington DC. The cause...
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Norman Wexler Biography (1926-1999) Born August 6, 1926, in New Bedford, MA; raised in Detroit, MI; died after aheart attack, August 23, 1999, in Washington, DC; son of Harry and Sophia (Brisson) Wexler; children: Erica, Merin. Career: Writer. Cleveland Playhouse, Cleveland, OH, playwright-in-residence, 1970. Also worked in advertising.
