Biography
Waldo Salt was an American screenwriter. Born in Chicago, Illinois, he graduated from Stanford University and began working as a junior writer at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. His early credits include The Shopworn Angel (1938) and an uncredited contribution to the screenplay for The Philadelphia Story (1940).
Salt's career was interrupted by the Hollywood blacklist in the 1950s, during which he wrote under pseudonyms including Mel Davenport. He returned with screenplays for Midnight Cowboy (1969), Serpico (1973), The Day of the Locust (1975) and Coming Home (1978). He received Academy Awards for the screenplays of Midnight Cowboy and Coming Home.
