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Calder Baynard Willingham Jr. (December 23, 1922 – February 19, 1995) [1] was an American novelist and screenwriter. Before the age of 30, after three novels and a collection of short stories, The New Yorker was describing Willingham as having “fathered modern black comedy,” [2] his signature a dry, straight-faced humor, made funnier by its concealed comic intent.
The Graduate is a 1967 American independent [6] romantic comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols [7] and written by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham, [8] based on the 1963 novella by Charles Webb, who wrote it shortly after graduating from Williams College. The film tells the story of 21-year-old Benjamin Braddock, a recent college graduate ...
The Strange One is a 1957 American film noir about students faced with an ethical dilemma in a military college in the Southern United States.It was directed by Jack Garfein, produced by Sam Spiegel, and was adapted from a novel and stage play by Calder Willingham called End as a Man.
The 1947 novel End as a Man by Calder Willingham; The 1957 film End as a Man based on that novel and better known as The Strange One This page was last edited on 30 ...
Calder Willingham (1944) novelist, playwright and Oscar nominee; screenplays included One-Eyed Jacks, The Graduate and Little Big Man; William Northrop (1966) writer who was best known for his falsification of service in Vietnam and his involvement in the Brokers of Death arms case.
Kubrick eventually hired Calder Willingham to work on the script of Paths of Glory (1957), of which Jim Thompson had written earlier drafts. The specific contributions by Kubrick, Thompson, and Willingham to the final script were disputed, and the matter went to arbitration with the Writers' Guild.
Little Big Man is a 1970 American revisionist Western film [2] directed by Arthur Penn, adapted by Calder Willingham from Thomas Berger's 1964 novel of the same title.It stars Dustin Hoffman, Chief Dan George, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam, Jeff Corey and Richard Mulligan.
Calder Willingham: The novel by Thomas Berger: Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium M*A*S*H: Ring Lardner Jr. The novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker: Lovers and Other Strangers: Renée Taylor, Joseph Bologna, David Zelag Goodman: The play by Renée Taylor and Joseph Bologna: The Owl and the Pussycat: Buck Henry ...