Budd Schulberg
(March 27, 1914 – August 5, 2009)
Budd Schulberg, who died on 5 August, 2009, was an American screenwriter who won an Oscar for the Best Motion Picture film On the Waterfront (1954).
The film, which starred Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb and Rod Steiger, told a tragic and brutal story of mob rule on the wrong side of side town. It was based on a series of articles uncovering the corruption and immorality of Manhattan and Brooklyn published in the New York Sun in 1949.
He contributed stories of screen plays to nearly 20 films during the 1940s and ’50s, and also wrote novels.
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