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Encyclopedia > Calder Willingham
Calder Willingham
Born: December 23, 1922
[Atlanta, Georgia]
Died: February 19, 1995
[Laconia, New Hampshire]
Occupation(s): Writer and screenplay writer
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Calder Willingham was an American, novelist and screenwriter. He cowrote several notable screenplays, including Paths of Glory (1957) and One-Eyed Jacks (1961). Willingham and Buck Henry collaborated on the screenplay for The Graduate (1967), which they adapted from a novel by Charles Webb. December 23 is the 357th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (358th in leap years). ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... February 19 is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ...


Original Novels

Geraldine Bradshaw (1950)


Gates of Hell (1951), collection of stories and nonfiction The Gates of Hell, Musée Rodin. ...


Reach to the Stars (1951)


Natural Child (1952)


To Eat a Peach (1955)


Eternal Fire (1963) To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...


Providence Island (1969)


Rambling Rose (novel) (1972) later wrote screenplay for 1991 film Rambling Rose Rambling Rose is a 1991 film set in 1930s Georgia starring Laura Dern and Diane Ladd. ...


The Big Nickel (1975) The Building of Venus Four (1977) The Big Nickel @ Dynamic Earth in Sudbury The Big Nickel is a nine- metre (30- foot) replica of a 1951 Canadian nickel, on the grounds of Dynamic Earth in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. ...


Film Adaptations

The Strange One (1957) Paths of Glory (1957) cowrote Little Big Man (1970) The Graduate (1967), cowrote with Buck Henry Rambling Rose (film) 1991 Paths of Glory (1957) is an anti-war film by Stanley Kubrick based on the novel of the same name by Humphrey Cobb. ... Little Big Man is a book and later, a movie in 1970. ... The Graduate is a 1967 film directed by Mike Nichols from a screenplay by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry. ...


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Alex Macaulay, biographical entry of Calder Willingham


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New Georgia Encyclopedia: Calder Willingham (1922-1995) (736 words)
Calder Willingham was an accomplished novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who created some of the most memorable characters in the American cinematic and literary canons.
The novel presented a scathing and lurid assessment of the overblown machismo Willingham encountered at the Citadel.
Willingham spent the next several years as a screenwriter, working with several prominent actors and producers and cowriting such films as Paths of Glory (1957) and One-Eyed Jacks (1961).
Calder Willingham (281 words)
Best-selling author and highly respected screenwriter Calder Willingham was behind several important films of the '60s and '70s.
Willingham was born and raised in the American South, the setting of many of his subsequent novels.
As an author, Willingham made an auspicious debut in 1947 with his novel End as a Man. A graphic and sometimes shocking exposé of life in a military college, it generated considerable controversy and at one time obscenity charges were launched against the publisher, but these were later dropped.
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