Jeremy Larner, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Candidate (1972), has died. He was 88.
The author’s son Jesse Larner advised The New York Instances that his father died on Feb. 24 in a nursing facility in Oakland, California. Though he was recognized with lymphoma in January and had Parkinson’s illness since 2013, a selected reason for loss of life was not but recognized.
Born March 20, 1937 in Olean, New York, Larner graduated from Brandeis College in 1958 earlier than writing a number of books all through the ’60s, together with his debut 1964 novel Drive, He Stated, which was tailored by co-writer/director Jack Nicholson right into a 1971 movie. As a journalist, Larner wrote for Harpers, The Paris Evaluation and Life.
Larner was a speechwriter for Eugene McCarthy throughout his 1968 marketing campaign for president, which impressed his guide No one Is aware of, serialized for Harpers in ’69.
The marketing campaign additionally influenced Larner’s script for the 1972 Michael Ritchie-helmed movie The Candidate, which starred Robert Redford as leftist lawyer Invoice McKay, who shortly turns into a well-liked public determine as he’s groomed to run for a senate seat. The film earned Larner an Academy Award for Finest Unique Screenplay.
Through the years, Larner additionally wrote speeches for politician Invoice Bradley, activist Sam Brown, Paul Newman and Redford, masking subjects just like the Vietnam Struggle and environmentalism.
Larner’s loss of life comes after Redford died at age 89 again in September,
