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9. Okt. 2010 · William Norton, a Hollywood screenwriter whose own life story would stretch the credibility of most screenplays, died Oct. 1 in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was 85. The cause was a heart attack,...
William Norton ( irisch Liam Ó Neachtain; * 1900; † 4. Dezember 1963) war ein irischer Politiker der Irish Labour Party sowie stellvertretender Premierminister ( Tánaiste ).
William Joseph Norton (2 November 1900 – 4 December 1963) was an Irish Labour Party politician who served as Tánaiste from 1948 to 1951 and from 1954 to 1957, Leader of the Labour Party from 1932 to 1960, Minister for Social Welfare from 1948 to 1951 and Minister for Industry and Commerce from 1954 to 1957. He was a Teachta Dála ...
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William Norton, who has died aged 85, was a screenwriter whose pre- and post-Hollywood adventures surpassed anything he imagined for the screen.
- Early Life
- Hollywood
- Ireland
- Central America and Cuba
- Death
- Filmography
Norton was born to Andrena "Rena" (née Callahan) and William Wallace Norton in Ogden, Utah, where his parents owned a ranch which they lost at the start of the Great Depression. His family moved to Berkeley, California, and then later to El Monte. He attended El Monte High School, where he was class president.
He wrote for the television series The Big Valley, which was broadcast from 1965 to 1968. His big screen breakthrough came with his script for the 1968 film The Scalphunters, set in the antebellum West, with the movie starring Burt Lancaster, Ossie Davis and Shelley Winters. Other screenplays that Norton wrote included the Angie Dickinson vehicle B...
After moving to Ireland in the mid-1980s, Norton was angered by attacks staged against Roman Catholic residents of Northern Ireland. He flew back to the U.S. and purchased a number of guns to bring back to supply the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA). Norton also purchased a camping van and had a hidden compartment made. The van was shipped abo...
After bandits broke into his house in Managua, he was able to find a gun and shot and killed one of the robbers. He relocated to Cuba in the 1990s, but rapidly became disenchanted with life under Communism. He moved, this time to Mexico, and sought the help of his daughter and his first wife to bring him back into the United States. He met his fami...
Norton died in Santa Barbara of a heart attack, aged 85, on October 1, 2010. He was survived by his second wife, Eleanor, as well as by two daughters and a son, writer-director Bill L. Norton.His first marriage, to the former Betty Conklin, had ended in divorce.
William Norton. Screenwriter. 23 September 1925 to 30 September 2010. A screenwriter whose turbulent life seemed every bit as dramatic as anything he ever penned for the screen, Norton came to notice with the Burt Lancaster-Ossie Davis western The Scalphunters (1968).
10. Okt. 2010 · William W. (“Bill”) Norton, a successful screenwriter whose post- Hollywood life took a turn as dramatic as the fast-paced action movies he once wrote when he became a gunrunner for rebels in...
