R.I.P. - Budd Schulberg

Harold Lederman just E-Mailed me saying that Budd Schulberg passed away. Harold wrote: What else can you say. He was a great man. Harold

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd_Schulberg

Schulberg is best known for his work as a writer, of novels, short storys, plays, and screenplays. Schulberg's interest in boxing began when he was taken to watch Benny Leonard box at Madison Square Garden when he was six years old.

Schulberg's best known boxing-related writing, were his two novels The Harder They Fall and On The Waterfront, which were both adapted into motion pictures. On The Waterfront, won 8 Academy Awards, including best picture, and for Schulberg best screenplay.

Schulberg has also authored, Sparring with Hemingway and Loser And Still Champion: Muhammad Ali. He has also covered boxing for numerous publications, and was the first boxing editor for Sports Illustrated.

Schuberg was Inducted into the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame on November 13, 2003

Henry

 

Budd Schulberg, ‘On the Waterfront’ Screenwriter, Dies at 95
By Anahad O'Connor

Budd Schulberg, the legendary screenwriter and novelist who won an Oscar for his classic 1954 film “On the Waterfront,” has died. He was 95.


Mr. Schulberg, the son of a movie executive born in New York, rose to fame in the 40’s and 50’s with a succession of award-winning books and screenplays, most notably his novels “What Makes Sammy Run” (1941) and “The Harder They Fall” (1947), and the film “A Face in the Crowd” (1957). But it was “On the Waterfront” that Mr. Schulberg was best known for. The film, starring a young Marlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint, nearly swept the 1954 Academy Awards, earning eight Oscars, including one for Best Picture and another for Best Actor, which went to Mr. Brando. The film was so influential that it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.


Mr. Schulberg lived in Westhampton Beach on Long Island and is survived by his wife, Betsy, and five children.


An obituary will be published shortly.


Update | 8:35 p.m. Mr. Schulberg’s wife, Betsy, said that her husband died at 2:30 Wednesday afternoon. She said that he was at home and was taken by ambulance to Peconic Bay Medical Center, where they tried to revive him but failed.

Henry