William Peter Blatty (1928–2017)
Autor/a de The Exorcist
Sobre l'autor
William Peter Blatty was born in Manhattan, New York on January 7, 1928. He graduated from Georgetown University in 1950. After serving in the Air Force, he worked for the United States Information Agency in Beirut. He returned to the United States for a public relations job in Los Angeles, where mostra'n més he hoped to begin his career as a writer. In 1961, he appeared as a contestant on You Bet Your Life. He and a fellow contestant won $10,000. He quit his day job and become a full-time writer. He collaborated with the director Blake Edwards on the screenplays for several films including A Shot in the Dark, What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, Darling Lili, and Gunn. He wrote several horror fiction books including The Exorcist, The Ninth Configuration, and Legion. All of the books were adapted into movies with the screenplays written by Blatty. He won an Academy Award for The Exorcist screenplay. He also adapted his novel John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! for the screen. He wrote several memoirs including Which Way to Mecca, Jack?, I'll Tell Them I Remember You, and Finding Peter. He died from multiple myeloma on January 12, 2017 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Sèrie
Obres de William Peter Blatty
Finding Peter: A True Story of the Hand of Providence and Evidence of Life after Death (2015) 17 exemplars
The Exorcist: The Complete Anthology [videorecording] (2014) — Screenwriter; Director — 11 exemplars
If There Were Demons, Then Perhaps There Were Angels: William Peter Blatty's Own Story of the Exorcist (2001) 11 exemplars
EXORCIST confidential 2 exemplars
Hancarved Coffins [Screenplay] 1 exemplars
The Exorcist 1998 1 exemplars
L’Exorciste, la suite (Exorcist, #2) 1 exemplars
"The Excorcist" Movie Pressbook 1 exemplars
Autograph, Exorcist, S. cut paper 1 exemplars
The Exorcist III: Legion [screenplay] 1 exemplars
The Exorcist III film press kit 1 exemplars
L'exorciste 3 (la suite) 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Smoke and Mirrors: Screenplays, Teleplays, Stage Plays, Comic Scripts & Treatments (2014) — Col·laborador — 24 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1928-01-07
- Data de defunció
- 2017-01-12
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA (birth)
- Lloc de naixement
- New York, New York, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Bethesda, Maryland, USA
- Causa de la mort
- multiple myeloma
- Llocs de residència
- New York, New York, USA
Malibu, California, USA - Educació
- Georgetown University (B.A.|1950)
George Washington University (M.A. ∙ English Literature|1954) - Professions
- screenwriter
novelist
movie producer - Premis i honors
- Bram Stoker Award (Lifetime Achievement ∙ 1997)
Academy Award (1973)
Golden Globe - Biografia breu
- Blatty was born in New York City, the son of Lebanese parents Mary (née Mouakad) and Peter Blatty, a carpenter.[1] His father left home when William was six years old. Raised in relative poverty by his deeply religious Catholic mother, he apparently lived at twenty-eight different addresses during his childhood. He attended several Catholic and Jesuit schools before finding his raison d'etre and attending Georgetown University and George Washington University to study English. In the mid-1950s, Blatty was a contestant on the quiz show You Bet Your Life, winning $10,000: enough money to enable him to devote more time to writing professionally.
Membres
Ressenyes
EL EXORCISTA de PETER BLATTY WILLIAM
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Llistes
Movies/Shows (1)
Favourite Books (1)
Devilish Books (1)
Kayla (1)
1970s Horror (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 43
- També de
- 5
- Membres
- 7,703
- Popularitat
- #3,161
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 204
- ISBN
- 255
- Llengües
- 19
- Preferit
- 16
- Pedres de toc
- 243
