Kurt Luedtke

✶September 28, 1939

†August 9, 2020

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About their life

Kurt Luedtke was an American screenwriter and executive editor of the Detroit Free Press. He wrote Out of Africa (1985), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He also wrote Absence of Malice (1981), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, as well as Random Hearts (1999). All three films were directed by Sydney Pollack.

playwright, screenwriter (1939-2020)

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