Bo Goldman Cause of Death

American screenwriter and playwright, Bo Goldman has been reported dead. According to sources, he died on July 25, 2023, at the age of 90. No cause of death was revealed.

Born on September 10, 1932, Bo Goldman started his career in 1959 after leaving the military service. He found work on Broadway as the lyricist for First Impressions, a musical based on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.

After becoming a family man, he found a steady income working in the new world of live television at CBS. He was mentored by Fred Coe and became part of the Twilight of the Golden Age, associate producing, and script editing Coe’s prestigious Playhouse 90’s, Days of Wine and Roses directed by a young John Frankenheimer, The Plot To Kill Stalin starring Eli Wallach, and Horton Foote’ Old Man. 

Goldman went on to write the screenplay for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The film won all five top Academy Awards including an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Goldman. It was the first film to win five top awards since Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night in 1934. Goldman also received the Writers Guild Award and the Golden Globe Award.