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Revision as of 15:58, 23 August 2016 by Aboutmovies (talk | contribs) (removed Category:People from Grand Rapids, Michigan; added Category:Writers from Grand Rapids, Michigan using HotCat)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Kurt Luedtke (born September 28, 1939) is an American screenwriter. He is best known for writing Out of Africa (1985), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as Absence of Malice (1981) (for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay) and Random Hearts (1999). All three films were directed by Sydney Pollack.
Before becoming a screenwriter, Luedtke was a newspaper reporter, eventually rising to the rank of executive editor of the Detroit Free Press.
References
- Kamer, Foster. "New York Times Top Brass Trolled by Former Editor Armed with Embarrassing Anecdote". Observer.com. The New York Observer. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
External links
- Kurt Luedtke at IMDb
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