Oscar-winner Horton Foote died.

Nobody dealt so intensively with the dark side of life as he was Henry Foote for his screenplays and dramas with the highest awards the industry honored. Then died of the U.S. author in age of 92.

 

Los Angeles / Hamburg - sombreness was his trademark in over fifty screenplays and stage plays, the native Texan Henry Foote, the dark side of American life on the topic. Most of his pieces are complex everyday dramas, in which only at first sight, nothing happens. According to his daughter Hallie Foote, he died on Wednesday at the age of 92 years in the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Scriptwriter Foote: died at the age of 92

For his screenplay for the movie classic "Who disturbs the nightingale" ( "To Kill a Mockingbird") 1963 Foote received his first Oscar. He was succeeded in 1984 an Academy Award for "Tender merci", and in 1985 the nomination for the screenplay of "The Trip to Bountiful." In 1995, the writer for the stage play "The Young from Atlanta," there is also a Pulitzerpreis awarded one of the highest awards of the literary industry.

His career began in the 1916-born son of a haberdashery retailer as an actor. First of all, therefore he left his Texas home town of Wharton to go to California. In the 1930s he joined a theater group in New York at. His first Broadway production of "Only the Heart" was set up in 1944 premiered.

The passion remained Foote to write into their advanced age. Even last autumn, his play "Dividing the Estate" on Broadway celebration. "I just can not stop writing," said the author a few years ago in an interview. "It's like an addiction."