David Zelag Goodman Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
David Zelag Goodman (January 15, 1930 – September 26, 2011) was a playwright and screenwriter for both TV and film. His most prolific period was from the 1960s to the early 1980s. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Lovers and Other Strangers, though he did not win. He co-wrote, with Sam Peckinpah, the screenplay for 1971's controversial Straw Dogs. He died less than two weeks after the remake was released. Other films that he wrote or co-wrote included Logan's Run, Monte Walsh, and Farewell My Lovely. He also wrote a number of the episodes of the Untouchables in the early 1960s.Born in Manhattan, he majored in English at Queens College, then studied at Yale Drama School in 1958. At age 24, his play, High Named Today, which was to have starred Jane Wyatt on Broadway, ended up running briefly Off Broadway in February 1954. He was often sought as a "script doctor" because he could quickly identify screenplay flaws, as when Sherry Lansing brought him in to work on the thriller Fatal Attraction. According to his friend, the film and television producer Zev Braun, Goodman said to Lansing of the Glenn Close character: "You can't let her off the hook. You should kill her. Let's drown her!" Until his death from Progressive supranuclear palsy, he was married for 61 years to Marjorie Goodman. Their daughter Kevis Goodman is an associate professor of English at UC Berkeley.
His only child, Kevis Goodman, is an associate professor of English at UC Berkeley.
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He co-wrote Straw Dogs (1971) with director Sam Peckinpah, and earned an Oscar nomination for his romantic comedy Lovers and Other Strangers (1970).
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Was born in Manhattan and graduated from Queens College where he studied playwriting. Just a few years later, at age 24, his play "High Named Today," had a short Off Broadway run.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Straw Dogs
2011
earlier screenplay
Monte Walsh
2003
TV Movie teleplay - as David Z. Goodman
Man, Woman and Child
1983
screenplay
Fighting Back
1982/I
written by - as David Z. Goodman
Freedom Road
1979
TV Movie
Eyes of Laura Mars
1978
screenplay
March or Die
1977
screenplay / story
Logan's Run
1976
screenplay
Farewell, My Lovely
1975
screenplay
Man on a Swing
1974
screenplay
Straw Dogs
1971
screenplay
Monte Walsh
1970
screenplay
Lovers and Other Strangers
1970
screenplay
Mr. Broadway
TV Series 1 episode, 1964 teleplay - 1 episode, 1964
Combat!
1963
TV Series written by - 1 episode
The Untouchables
1960-1963
TV Series written by - 8 episodes
Naked City
1963
TV Series story - 1 episode
The New Breed
1961
TV Series written by - 1 episode
Goodyear Theatre
1960
TV Series teleplay - 1 episode
The Stranglers of Bombay
1959
written by - as David Z. Goodman
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
The 84th Annual Academy Awards
2012
TV Special
Himself - Memorial Tribute
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1977
Hugo
Hugo Awards
Best Dramatic Presentation
Logan's Run (1976)
1976
Edgar
Edgar Allan Poe Awards
Best Motion Picture
Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
1971
Oscar
Academy Awards, USA
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium