Writer
Budd Schulberg
Born 1914-03-27Died 2009-08-05aged 95
Budd Schulberg (1914–2009) is best known for A Face in the Crowd, On the Waterfront and Foreign Correspondent.
Budd Schulberg (born Seymour Wilson Schulberg; March 27, 1914 – August 5, 2009) was an American screenwriter, television producer, novelist and sports writer. He was known for his novels What Makes Sammy Run? (1941) and The Harder They Fall (1947), as well as his screenplays for On the Waterfront (1954) and A Face in the Crowd (1957), receiving an Academy Award for the former.