Paul D. Zimmerman
Screenwriter, Author
1938 – 1993
Who was Paul D. Zimmerman?
Paul D. Zimmerman was a screenwriter, film critic and activist.
He was a film critic for Newsweek magazine from 1967 to 1975, but is probably best known for writing The King of Comedy directed by Martin Scorsese. He was the author of many other screenplays, mostly unproduced, and also the books The Open Man, The Year the Mets Lost Last Place and The Marx Brothers at the Movies.
Active in the Nuclear Freeze movement, he managed to become a member of the Pennsylvania delegation to the Republican Party convention in 1984 in order to be the only person to vote against Ronald Reagan.
Zimmerman died of colon cancer right after that.
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- Born
- Jul 3, 1938
- Also known as
- Paul Zimmerman
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Mar 2, 1993
Princeton
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on July 23, 2013
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