Calder Willingham

Calder Willingham
Born	December 23, 1922(1922-12-23) Atlanta, Georgia
Died	February 19, 1995(1995-02-19) (aged 72) Laconia, New Hampshire
Occupation	Writer
Notable work(s)	Rambling Rose

Calder Baynard Willingham, Jr. (December 23, 1922 - February 19, 1995) 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 were co-credited (but did not collaborate ) on the screenplay for The Graduate (1967), which they adapted separately from a novel by Charles Webb; they won a BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay for their work and were also nominated for an Oscar.

Novels

• End as a Man (1947)
• Geraldine Bradshaw (1950)
• Gates of Hell (1951)
• Reach to the Stars (1951)
• Natural Child (1952)
• To Eat a Peach (1955)
• Eternal Fire (1963)
• Providence Island (1969)
• Rambling Rose (1972)
• The Big Nickel (1975)
• The Building of Venus Four (1977)

Screenplays

• The Strange One (1957)
• Paths of Glory (1957) (with Stanley Kubrick and Jim Thompson)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) (uncredited)
• The Vikings (1958)
• Spartacus (1960) (uncredited)
• One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
• The Graduate (1967) (with Buck Henry)
• Little Big Man (1970)
• Thieves Like Us (1974) (with Robert Altman and Joan Tewkesbury)
• Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery (1978) (TV) (with Del Reisman)
• Rambling Rose 1991

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