Horton Foote
Albert Horton Foote Jr. was an American playwright and screenwriter. He received Academy Awards for To Kill a Mockingbird, which was adapted from the 1960 novel of the same name by Harper Lee, and the film, Tender Mercies (1983).
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- Born in
- Wharton
- Awards
- 🏆 Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay🏆 Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay🏆 Pulitzer Prize for Drama🏆 Primetime Emmy Award🏆 Writers Guild of America Award
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1916
Born
Birth2009
Died
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- father:
- Albert Horton Foote
- mother:
- Harriet Gautier Brooks
- children:
- Hallie Foote
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