About

Known credits:
30
Birthday:
1927-04-12
Place of birth:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Website:
N/A

Alvin Sargent

Overview

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).

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Known for

Acting
1953 From Here to Eternity Actor Nair (uncredited) 66
Fair

Writing
2012 The Amazing Spider-Man Writing Screenplay 66
Fair
2007 Spider-Man 3 Writing Screenplay 63
Fair
2004 Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing Writing Screenplay 59
Average
2004 Spider-Man 2 Writing Screenplay 72
Good
2002 Unfaithful Writing Screenplay 64
Fair
2002 Spider-Man trilogy Writing Screenplay 61
Fair
1999 Anywhere but Here Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1999 Anywhere but Here Writing Writer 59
Average
1996 Bogus Writing Screenplay 58
Average
1992 Hero Writing Story 60
Fair
1991 Other People's Money Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1991 What About Bob? Writing Story 65
Fair
1990 White Palace Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1988 Dominick and Eugene Writing Writer 59
Average
1987 Nuts Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1980 Ordinary People Writing Screenplay 67
Fair
1978 Straight Time Writing Screenplay 62
Fair
1977 Julia Writing Screenplay 60
Fair
1977 Bobby Deerfield Writing Screenplay 58
Average
1973 Paper Moon Writing Screenplay 70
Good
1973 Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1972 The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds Writing Screenplay 60
Fair
1972 Footsteps Writing Writer N/A
N/A
1971 The Impatient Heart Writing Writer N/A
N/A
1970 I Walk the Line Writing Writer 58
Average
1969 The Sterile Cuckoo Writing Screenplay 58
Average
1968 The Stalking Moon Writing Screenplay 58
Average
1966 Gambit Writing Screenplay 61
Fair

Crew
1973 The Way We Were Crew Additional Writing 63
Fair