Full name, Calder Baynard Willingham Jr.; born December 23, 1923, in Atlanta,GA; died of lung cancer, February 19, 1995, in Laconia, NH; son of Calder Baynard (a hotel manager) and Eleanor Churchill (Willcox) Willingham; married Helene Rothenberg, 1945 (divorced); married Jane Marie Bennett, September 15,1953; children: (first marriage) Paul Thomas; (second marriage) Frederick Calder, Sara Jane, Mark Osgood, Pamela, Christopher. Career: Novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. Awards, Honors: Golden Globe Award nomination, best screenplay, and Academy Award nomination, best writing, screenplaybased on material from another medium, 1967, both for The Graduate(with Buck Henry).
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