Mark Medoff
American actor and writer (1940–2019) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mark Medoff (March 18, 1940 – April 23, 2019) was an American playwright, screenwriter, film and theatre director, actor, and professor. His play Children of a Lesser God received both the Tony Award and the Olivier Award. He was nominated for an Academy Award and a Writers Guild of America Best Adapted Screenplay Award for the film script of Children of a Lesser God and for a Cable ACE Award for his HBO Premiere movie, Apology. He also received an Obie Award for his play When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?[citation needed] Medoff's feature film Refuge[1] was released in 2010.
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Born | (1940-03-18)March 18, 1940 Mount Carmel, Illinois, U.S. |
Died | April 23, 2019(2019-04-23) (aged 79) Las Cruces, New Mexico, U.S. |
Occupation | Playwright, screenwriter, film director, theater director, actor, professor |
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Spouse | Stephanie Thorne Medoff (m. 1972) |
Children | 3 |
When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? was adapted into a film with a screenplay by Medoff in 1979.[2]