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Actor
William Hjortsberg
Writing
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 5Series: 0Crew credits: 4
TMDB ID: 9167
IMDb ID: nm0387132
Known for: Writing
Born: February 23, 1941
Died: April 22, 2017
Age: 76
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1977 - 2002
Years active: 26
Average TMDB rating: 6.68
Wikidata: Q552955
Also known as
William "Gatz" Hjortsberg • Gatz Hjortsberg
Other jobs
Writer (2)Novel (1)Teleplay (1)
Biography
William Reinhold "Gatz" Hjortsberg was an American novelist and screenwriter, known for his originality and for writing the screenplay of the film Legend. His novel Falling Angel was the basis for the film Angel Heart (1987). The novel was adapted into an opera in 2015, composed by J. Mark Scearce with a libretto by Lucy Thurber. His 2015 novel Mañana is a thriller set in Mexico. Hjortsberg was the only child of a Swedish restaurateur father and a Swiss mother. He attended Dartmouth College, the Yale School of Drama (where he met Thomas McGuane), and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He was married three times, and had a son and a daughter. He died of pancreatic cancer.
Movies
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