Overview
William Goldman
Known For
A Cinematic Life: The Art and Influence of Conrad Hall
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
Film Noir burrows into the mind; it's disorienting, intriguing and...
The Wild Bunch: The True Tale of Butch and Sundance
Comparisons between what is known from the real lives of...
Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men"
A short documentary on the making of "All the President's...
Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat
It was a plot device worthy of any film noir...
All of What Follows Is True: The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'
A retrospective on the 1969 classic "Butch Cassidy and the...
On Location with Gunga Din
A documentary focusing on the production history and legacy of...
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Outlaws Out of Time
Documentary feature about the real Butch and Sundance, produced with...
Biography
William Goldman (August 12, 1931 – November 15, 2018) was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He came to prominence in the 1950s as a novelist, before turning to writing for film. He won two Academy Awards for his screenplays, first for the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and again for All the President's Men (1976), about journalists Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, who broke the Watergate scandal of President Richard Nixon for the Washington Post. Both films starred Robert Redford. His other notable works include his thriller novel Marathon Man and comedy-fantasy novel The Princess Bride, both of which Goldman adapted for film. Author Sean Egan has described Goldman as "one of the late twentieth century’s most popular storytellers."