Waldo Salt
Personal Info
Known For Writer
Gender Male
Birthday 1914-10-18
Deathday 1987-03-07 (72 years old)
Place of Birth Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also Known As Waldo Miller Salt, Arthur Behrstock, Mel Davenport, M.L. Davenport
Waldo Salt
Biography
Waldo Miller Salt (October 18, 1914 – March 7, 1987) was an American screenwriter. He received two Academy Awards for Midnight Cowboy (1969) and Coming Home (1978).
Known For
Writer
1978
Coming Home
as Screenplay
1975
The Day of the Locust
as Screenplay
1973
Serpico
as Screenplay
1971
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
as Screenplay
1969
Midnight Cowboy
as Screenplay
1964
Flight from Ashiya
as Writer
1962
Taras Bulba
as Screenplay
1961
Blast of Silence
as Writer
1958
Swiss Family Robinson
as Screenplay
1951
M
as Dialogue
1950
The Flame and the Arrow
as Writer
1948
Rachel and the Stranger
as Screenplay
1944
Mr. Winkle Goes to War
as Writer
1943
Tonight We Raid Calais
as Screenplay
1941
The Wild Man of Borneo
as Screenplay
1940
The Philadelphia Story
as Screenplay
1939
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Dialogue
1938
The Shopworn Angel
as Screenplay
1937
The Bride Wore Red
as Adaptation
Actor
1990
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
as Self (archive footage)
1985
Into the Night
as Male Derelict
1969
Midnight Cowboy
as Joe Pyne on TV Show (uncredited)
Sound
1948
Rachel and the Stranger
as Songs