MUMBAI: Academy Award-winner Budd Schulberg has expired. Schulberg died of natural causes at his home in Westhampton Beach, N.Y. He was taken to a nearby medical center, where efforts to revive him were unsuccessful. He was 95.Schulberg won the Oscars for his screenplay in On the Waterfront. He had also penned a portrait of a Hollywood hustler in his novel titled ‘What Makes Sammy Run?‘ He adapted his short story ‘Your Arkansas Traveler‘ about the rise and fall of a popular entertainer for the screen titled A Face in the Crowd which Elia Kazan directed in 1957.
Born Seymour Wilson Schulberg on 27 March, 1914 in Harlem, he was the son of movie producer Benjamin P. Schulberg. While a youngster, his family moved to the Hancock Park area of Los Angeles. The elder Schulberg partnered with Louis B. Mayer in an independent production company. But when B.P. Schulberg and Mayer dissolved their partnership, Schulberg‘s father went on to become production head of Paramount Studios.
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