Alexander Jacobs was born in London in 1927. He was originally a champion cyclist, taking part in the Tour de France. After suffering from major cycling injuries, he became a Hollywood screenwriter. He wrote Point Blank with Rafe and David Newhouse. Jacobs is also credited on Hell in the Pacific, French Connection II, and The Seven-Ups.

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Carole Eastman was born on January 19, 1934. She was a screenwriter, working on films such as The Shooting, Five Easy Pieces, and The Fortune. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her work on Five Easy Pieces along with Bob Rafelson. She died in 2004.

Bob Rafelson was born on February 21, 1933, in New York. He is a director, writer, and producer. He co-wrote Five Easy Pieces with Carole Eastman, and they were nominated for Academy Awards. He is also one of the creators and producer of the TV series The Monkees. He is also known for directing The Postman Always Rings Twice.

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Donn Pearce was born in Pennsylvania on September 28, 1928. He is best known for his novel and screenplay Cool Hand Luke. He was nominated for an Academy Award for this adaptation, along with Frank Pierson.

Frank Pierson was born on May 12, 1925, in New York. He wrote screenplays for Cool Hand Luke, A Star Is Born, Cat Ballou, and Dog Day Afternoon, for which he won an Oscar. He was President of The Screen Writers Guild of American from 1981-1983 and 1993-1995. He was also President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 2001-2005. He also works as a consulting producer for Mad Men.

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Ernest Lehman was born in New York City in 1915. He was a successful screenwriter, nominated for six Academy Awards throughout his career. In 2001, he received an honorary Academy Award for his contribution to the film industry and was the first screenplay writer to receive such an honor. Lehman is most known for his work on the movies Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, North by Northwest, Hello, Dolly!, Family Plot, Sabrina, The Sound of Music, and West Side Story. He passed away on July 2, 2005.

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Julius and Philip Epstein were twin brothers, born on August 22, 1909, in New York City. They are most famous for adapting the unproduced play Everybody Comes to Rick's into the screenplay for Casablanca. In this collaboration, they also worked with Howard Koch, and all three writers received an Academy Award for Best Screenplay in 1943. The Epstein brothers continued to collaborate on screenplays including, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Last Time I Saw Paris, and The Man Who Came to Dinner. In 1952, Philip passed away from cancer; however, Julius continued to work in the film industry, writing and producing films. Julius died in 2000.

Howard Koch was born in December 1901, in New York City. He worked with Julius and Philip Epstein on the screenplay for Casablanca and won an Academy Award for it in 1943. Koch continued to work as a writer in Hollywood on films such as The Letter, The Sea Hawk, and Letter from an Unknown Woman. He also wrote radio scripts for Orson Welles's adaptation of H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds.

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William Inge was born in Kansas on May 3, 1913. After seeing The Glass Menagerie in Chicago with Tennessee Williams in 1943, Inge was inspired to write a script. He wrote Farther Off From Heaven in three months. In 1950, Inge's script for Come Back, Little Sheba was produced on Broadway, and he won the title of being the most promising playwright of the Broadway season. Inge's first screenplay, Splendor in the Grass was filmed in New York in 1960. For this film, he won the Academy Award for best screenplay. Inge quit writing plays in 1970 and began writing novels. He sadly committed suicide on June 10, 1973.

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