Jeremy Larner Dies: Oscar-Winning 'The Candidate' Writer Was 88

[ad_1] Jeremy Larner, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Candidate (1972), has died. He was 88.

The author’s son Jesse Larner instructed The New York Instances that his father died on Feb. 24 in a nursing facility in Oakland, California. Though he was recognized with lymphoma in January and had Parkinson’s illness since 2013, a selected explanation for demise was not but identified.

Born March 20, 1937 in Olean, New York, Larner graduated from Brandeis College in 1958 earlier than writing a number of books all through the ’60s, together with his debut 1964 novel Drive, He Stated, which was tailored by co-writer/director Jack Nicholson right into a 1971 movie. As a journalist, Larner wrote for Harpers, The Paris Assessment and Life.

Larner was a speechwriter for Eugene McCarthy throughout his 1968 marketing campaign for president, which impressed his ebook No person Is aware of, serialized for Harpers in ’69.

The marketing campaign additionally influenced Larner’s script for the 1972 Michael Ritchie-helmed movie The Candidate, which starred Robert Redford as leftist lawyer Invoice McKay, who shortly turns into a preferred public determine as he's groomed to run for a senate seat. The film earned Larner an Academy Award for Finest Authentic Screenplay.

Over time, Larner additionally wrote speeches for politician Invoice Bradley, activist Sam Brown, Paul Newman and Redford, overlaying matters just like the Vietnam Struggle and environmentalism.