Alvin Sargent
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- 1927-04-12
- Died
- 2019-05-09
- Place of birth
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography
Alvin Sargent (April 12, 1927–May 9, 2019) was an American screenwriter. He won two Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay, for Julia (1977) and Ordinary People (1980). Sargent's other works include screenplays of the films The Sterile Cuckoo (1969), The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1970), Paper Moon (1973), Nuts (1987), White Palace (1990), What About Bob? (1991), Unfaithful (2002), Spider-Man 2 (2004), Spider-Man 3 (2007), and The Amazing Spider-Man (2012). Alvin Sargent was born Alvin Supowitz in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Esther (née Kadansky) and Isaac Supowitz. He was of Russian Jewish descent. Sargent attended Upper Darby High School, leaving at age 17 to join the Navy. As of 2006, he was one of 35 alumni to be on the school's Wall of Fame. Sargent began writing for television in 1953, and through the 1960s, he scripted episodes for Route 66, Ben Casey, and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. He collaborated on his first screenplay for a film on Gambit (1966) and gained recognition for I Walk the Line (1970) and Paper Moon (1973), for which he won the WGA Award for Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium and was nominated for an Academy Award. He won the Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay in 1978 for the film Julia (1977) and again in 1981 for Ordinary People (1980). He collaborated on the 2004 screenplay for Spider-Man 2 and the 2007 screenplay for Spider-Man 3. He'd also collaborate on the screenplay for the 2012 reboot The Amazing Spider-Man. He had a long-time relationship with producer Laura Ziskin; they were married from 2010 until her death in 2011. His brother was writer and producer Herb Sargent. Sargent died from natural causes at his home in Seattle on May 9, 2019, four weeks after his 92nd birthday. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alvin Sargent, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Works in catalog 149
In The Eyes
Eat Your Heart Out
Hungry Ghost Festival
Infestation
Intruders
Sandwich
The Hostile Rat Takeover
The Journal: Starting From Research
The Leaked Tape
The Rise Of The Dead
Walpurgis
Walpurgis: Director's Cut
10/31: KNIGHTS
Are You There?
Blood Red Beach
Evil Puddle
Gereja Setan
Lilim
Mardröm på Radhusvägen 3
Necrophetical
Solitary
Solitary
The Arborist
The Brooklyn Butcher
Your Presence is Requested
Faati Ne?
A Bold Voyage
Alone
Beware the Boogeyman
Bigfoot prophecy 2
Black Veil
Dressing Up Halloween: The Story of Ben Cooper, Inc.
Fatal Hilarity
Hostile Takeover
Keep Coming Back
Mardröm på Radhusvägen 2
Megatruh
Popper
Portraits
The Thorn: One Sacred Night
Sorop
Take Good Care
The TRIP
Auteur
Bloody Podcast
BOUND
Hantu Baru
Marcy!
Masken
Murder Ballads: How to Make It in Rock 'n' Roll
Satellite
Serpentine
The Awakening
The Haunting of Hype House
The Locked Trunk
The Vigil
The Wailing of the Maghrib
Oru Thulli Thaappa
2025 Armageddon
Alien Shark
Cocaine Crabs From Outer Space
Espacio liminal
KKN: Curse of the Dancing Village - Luwih Dowo, Luwih Medeni
KKN: Curse of the Dancing Village
Swept Under
Smog
That Feeling...
The Five Fingers of a Dog
DEIFIED
Human Resources
Temple of Devilbuster
Four Rats for a Cat's Claw
Rebirth
The Man Who Went Missing in Black Hawk County
Fantasma
Jeritan Malam
Okay Google
Primitiva
Sebastina: The Curse
The Berlin Bride
THE END OF THE DOCTOR'S REPORT
WHORSES THE MOVIE
10/31
Asian Girls
Cynthia
El Peste
O' Bloody Night
Claustrophobia
All Girls Weekend
House of Purgatory
Howl
Freak of Nurture
Gay Jesus
RedBook
Savant: Kali 47
Vere Vazhi Ille
Gemini
Ninja Apocalypse
Not Another Zombie Movie....About the Living Dead
You're Invited: The Making of Night of the Demons
Don't Move
The Diplomat Hotel
Bleeding Mountain
Possessing Piper Rose
Sini Ada Hantu
Twisted
Messages Deleted
Oceaniden
Tormented
Ghost Ambulance
Right to Die
Gay Zombie
Island of the Living Dead
Naraka 19
Second Sight
Zombies: The Beginning
Seed of Darkness
The Somnambulists
Secrets of the Sisterhood
Ghost School
Experiments in Terror
Vengeance of the Dead
The Early 70's Horror Trailer
Within the Rock
Hellbound
Vampire Family
Critters 3
The Revenge of Angel
The Spooky Family
Vampire Settle On Police Camp
Funny Ghost
Marley's Revenge: The Monster Movie
Surgikill
Night of the Demons
The Chair
Monstrosity
In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro
Beijo Ardente – Overdose
Edgar and the Raven
Lost Soul
Successive Slidings of Pleasure
The Beast Must Die
Sweet, Sweet Rachel
Ursula
The Beast with Five Fingers
Jasper and the Haunted House
All That Is Evil
In Memoriam
