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Alvin Sargent

Writer | Miscellaneous Crew | Actor

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He has two daughters from his first marriage: Amanda and Jennifer. See more trivia »

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Alvin Supowitz
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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2012 The Amazing Spider-Man (screenplay)
 
2007 Spider-Man 3 (screenplay)
 
2004 Spider-Man 2 (screenplay)
 
2002 Unfaithful (screenplay)
 
1999 Anywhere But Here (screenplay)
 
1996 Bogus (screenplay)
 
1992/I Hero (story)
 
1991 Other People's Money (screenplay)
 
1991 What About Bob? (story)
 
1990 White Palace (screenplay)
 
1988 Dominick and Eugene (writer)
 
1987 Nuts (screenplay)
 
1980 Ordinary People (screenplay)
 
1978 Straight Time (screenplay)
 
1977 Julia (screenplay)
 
1977 Bobby Deerfield (screenplay)
 
1976 A Star Is Born (uncredited)
 
1974 Paper Moon (TV series)
– Birthday (1974) (written by)
– Settling (1974) (written by)
 
1973 Paper Moon (screenplay)
 
1973 Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (written by)
 
1972 The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (screenplay)
 
1972 Footsteps (TV movie)
 
1972 Norman Corwin Presents (TV series)
– Pappy's Oasis (1972) (written by)
 
1971 The Impatient Heart (TV movie)
 
1970 I Walk the Line (screenplay)
 
1969 The Sterile Cuckoo (screenplay)
 
1968 The Stalking Moon (screenplay)
 
1967 Coronet Blue (TV series)
– Saturday (1967) (writer)
 
1966-1967 Run for Your Life (TV series)
– A Choice of Evils (1967) (teleplay)
– In Search of April (1966) (teleplay)
 
1966 Gambit (screenplay)
 
1965 For the People (TV series)
– Secure Any Special Priviledge or Advantage (1965) (writer)
 
1965 Mr. Novak (TV series)
– Enter a Strange Animal (1965) (writer)
 
1963-1964 The Doctors and the Nurses (TV series)
– So Some Girls Play the Cello (1964) (writer)
– A Postcard from Yucatan (1964) (writer)
– Is There Room for Edward? (1964) (writer)
– The Guilt of Molly Kane (1963) (writer)
– A Question of Mercy (1963) (writer)
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1964 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV series)
– The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow (1964) (teleplay)
 
1963-1964 Route 66 (TV series)
– Follow the White Dove with the Broken Wing (1964) (writer)
– Is It True There Are Poxies at the Bottom of Landfair Lake? (1964) (writer)
– 93 Percent in Smiling (1963) (story / teleplay)
– Shadows of an Afternoon (1963) (teleplay)
 
1962-1963 Ben Casey (TV series)
– Dispel the Black Cyclone That Shakes the Throne (1963) (story)
– Saturday, Surgery, and Stanley Schultz (1962) (writer)
– To a Grand and Natural Finale (1962) (writer)
 
1962-1963 Naked City (TV series)
– Color Schemes Like Never Before (1963) (writer)
– Howard Running Bear Is a Turtle (1963) (written by)
– Spectre of the Rose Street Gang (1962) (teleplay)
 
1962 Empire (TV series)
– The Fire Dancer (1962) (writer)
– Walk Like a King (1962) (writer)
 
1961 Bus Stop (TV series)
– Jaws of Darkness (1961) (teleplay)
 
1960 G.E. True Theater (TV series)
– Don't You Remember? (1960) (writer)
 
1956 Chevron Hall of Stars (TV series)
– A Man Named March (1956) (story and screenplay)
 
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1974 Paper Moon (TV series) (executive story consultant - 13 episodes)
– Day Off (1974) (executive story consultant)
– Green Goods (1974) (executive story consultant)
– Who Is M.P. Sellers (1974) (executive story consultant)
– Visions of Las Vegas (1974) (executive story consultant)
– Bonnie and Clyde (1974) (executive story consultant)
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1953 From Here to Eternity
Nair (uncredited)
 
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2008 Killshot (thanks)
 
1993 Ready or Not (TV series) (thanks - 1 episode)
– Thirty-Two Double A (1993) (thanks)
 
1989 Interrogation (special thanks)
 
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1981 The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Himself - Winner: Best Adapted Screenplay
 
1978 The 50th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Himself - Winner: Best Adapted Screenplay
 

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Personal Details

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Did an uncredited rewrite for Spider-Man, as a favor to his wife, one of the film's producers, Laura Ziskin.
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Personal Quote:

When I die, I'm going to have written on my tombstone, 'Finally, a plot'. See more »

Trivia:

He has two daughters from his first marriage: Amanda and Jennifer. See more »

Star Sign:

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