Horton Foote

Horton Foote was an American screenwriter, producer, and actor. He was born on March 14, 1916, in Wharton, Texas (United States) and died on March 4, 2009, in Hartford, Connecticut. During the 1960s, Foote wrote the screenplay for Robert Mulligan's film To Kill a Mockingbird, based on Harper Lee'... More

Horton Foote was an American screenwriter, producer, and actor. He was born on March 14, 1916, in Wharton, Texas (United States) and died on March 4, 2009, in Hartford, Connecticut. During the 1960s, Foote wrote the screenplay for Robert Mulligan's film To Kill a Mockingbird, based on Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The film, now considered a classic of American cinema, received eight Academy Award nominations, and Horton Foote himself won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Mulligan and Foote collaborated again on The Wake of Violence, an adaptation of a play originally written by Foote for television. He was also one of the screenwriters for Otto Preminger's Let Night Come. He then spent several years writing a cycle of nine plays entitled The Orphean's Home, depicting various moments in his father's life. He returned to film in 1982, writing the comedy-drama Tender Happiness. The film, directed by Bruce Beresford, earned Foote a second Oscar, this time for an original screenplay.