Biography for
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Date of Birth

8 November 1931, Geneva, Illinois, USA

Date of Death

12 January 2006, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA (heart attack)

Birth Name

Stewart Bridgewater Linder

Spouse

Cathy Fitzpatrick

(1981 - 12 January 2006) (his death) 1 child

Trivia

Brother-in-law of Roy V. Livingston

Was an Army veteran of the Korean War. He served as an illustrator for the Foreign Language School at Fort Ord in California.

Linder received an Academy Award nomination for the Levinson-directed "Rain Man" (1988), the Seattle Times called his editing "a major contribution" that heightened the tension of key scenes. The film won for best picture and director. Linder's Oscar, which he shared with three others, for John Frankenheimer's race-car melodrama "Grand Prix" (1966).

Died of a heart attack while working on location of 'Barry Levinson (I)''s Man of the Year (2006) in Ridgefield, Connecticut. He was 74.