Biography
Bo Goldman was an American screenwriter and playwright. Born Robert Spencer Goldman on 10 September 1932 in New York City, he died on 25 July 2023 in Helendale, California. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy and Princeton University, where he wrote for the Triangle Club, before serving in the US Army and working in television as a script editor and associate producer on Playhouse 90.
Goldman received Academy Awards for his screenplays for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975, shared with Lawrence Hauben) and Melvin and Howard (1980). His other credits include The Rose (1979), Shoot the Moon (1982), Scent of a Woman (1992), City Hall (1996) and Meet Joe Black (1998). He also received two Golden Globe Awards, two Writers Guild of America Awards and the guild's lifetime achievement award in 1998, as well as two BAFTA nominations.
