Full Name Charles Kaufman Spouse Denise Kaufman Role Screenwriter | Name Charles Kaufman Occupation Screenwriter Children Anna Kaufman | |
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Born October 20, 1904 ( 1904-10-20 ) Paterson, New Jersey, United States Died May 2, 1991(1991-05-02) (aged 86)
Los Angeles, California, United States Books Being John Malkovich Movies Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Sp, Synecdoche - New York, Being John Malkovich, Human Nature Similar People Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry, Tom Noonan, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Samantha Morton | ||
Charles Kaufman (October 20, 1904 – May 2, 1991) was an American novelist, writer and screenwriter.
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Kaufman was a short story writer for The New Yorker. His screenplay for the 1958 film The Story of Esther Costello was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay. Along with Wolfgang Reinhart he was nominated for an Academy Award for Original Screenplay in 1962 for the film Freud.
In 2010, Let There Be Light, whose screenplay Kaufman wrote with John Huston, was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
Kaufman died of pneumonia in Los Angeles.
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