Alvin Sargent

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1927-04-12

Deathday 2019-05-09 (92 years old)

Place of Birth Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Alvin Sargent

Biography

Alvin Sargent (April 12, 1927 – May 9, 2019) was an American screenwriter. He won two Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay, for Julia (1977), and Ordinary People (1980). Sargent's other works include screenplays of the films The Sterile Cuckoo (1969), The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1970), Paper Moon (1973), Nuts (1987), White Palace (1990), What About Bob? (1991), Unfaithful (2002), Spider-Man 2 (2004), Spider-Man 3 (2007), and The Amazing Spider-Man (2012). Description above from the Wikipedia article Alvin Sargent, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Writer

2012
2007
Spider-Man 3

as Screenplay

2004
Spider-Man 2

as Screenplay

2002
Unfaithful

as Screenplay

1999
1999
Anywhere but Here

as Screenplay

1996
Bogus

as Screenplay

1992
Hero

as Story

1991
Other People's Money

as Screenplay

1991
1990
White Palace

as Screenplay

1988
1987
Nuts

as Screenplay

1980
Ordinary People

as Screenplay

1978
Straight Time

as Screenplay

1977
Bobby Deerfield

as Screenplay

1977
Julia

as Screenplay

1973
Paper Moon

as Screenplay

1972
Footsteps

as Writer

1971
1970
I Walk the Line

as Writer

1969
The Sterile Cuckoo

as Screenplay

1968
The Stalking Moon

as Screenplay

1966
Gambit

as Screenplay

Actor

1953
From Here to Eternity

as Nair (uncredited)

1953
The Oscars

as Self

Crew

1973
The Way We Were

as Additional Writing