William Peter Blatty (January 7, 1928 – January 12, 2017)

William Peter Blatty (January 7, 1928 – January 12, 2017) was an American writer and filmmaker best known for William Goldman's 1971 novel The Exorcist and for the Academy Award-winning screenplay of the Academy Award-winning screenplay's film adaptation.

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The Exorcist was written by William Blatty and the movie directed by William Friedkin, while the Mikado was written by Arthur Sullivan and William Gilbert.

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As 1971 bestselling novel or 1973 smash pic, William Peter Blatty’s “The Exorcist” has always represented an ungainly amalgam of prolix theology and terrifying Grand Guignol.

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A brutal 1928 case of demonic possession became the inspiration for William Peter Blatty’s novel The Exorcist.

US author & filmmaker William Peter Blatty , best known for writing The Exorcist

US author & filmmaker William Peter Blatty, best known for writing The Exorcist, has passed away.

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“The Exorcist,” written by William Peter Blatty, a Georgetown University alumnus, and directed by William Friedkin, is considered by many to be the greatest horror movie of all time.

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Four decades after A Clockwork Orange first terrified the world, William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist is back!

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Directed by William Friedkin and written by Catholic author William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist was a box office phenomenon and remains one of the only horror films to have been nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award.

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From these two strands of faith, author William Peter Blatty and director William Friedkin wove The Exorcist, the frightening and realistic story of an innocent girl inhabited by a malevolent entity.

who got the idea from an article William Peter Blatty had read whilst studying in college

The Exorcist was written by William Peter Blatty who got the idea from an article William Peter Blatty had read whilst studying in college.

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The exciting series, based on the world-famous series of horror films, which have become classics of world cinema and based on the popular novel The Exorcist, written by the outstanding American writer William Peter Blatty, will tell about the incredibly dangerous work of exorcists – priests casting out demons.

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Also, as readers know, this true story went on to inspire the book THE EXORCIST by William Peter Blatty and a film version a few years later.

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Exorcist Creator William Peter Blatty Dead at 89He wrote the legendary novel and script for The Exorcist.

Literature William Blatty (1928)

Literature William Blatty (1928) wrote the book and screenplay to The Exorcist ;

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screenwriter William Peter Blatty was an author, best known for writing The Exorcist novel and screenplay.

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The writer won an Oscar in 1973 for The esteemed horror writer William Peter Blatty's screenplay THE EXORCIST based on The esteemed horror writer William Peter Blatty's book of the same title.

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Blake Edwards and William Peter Blatty, the latter of whom would eventually write THE EXORCIST (both the novel and the film), were working on adapting a stageplay by Marcel Achard and Harry Kurnitz when Edwards had the idea of turning it into a vehicle for the character of Inspector Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers), the bumbling French policeman with the thick accent from Edwards' caper comedy THE PINK PANTHER.

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William Peter Blatty, writer and filmmaker who wrote the novel The Exorcist (1971) and the subsequent screenplay version for which he won an Academy Award Reem Bassous, visual artist Irvin Bomb, artist Warren Brown, TV host on the Food Network Christopher Pearse Cranch, writer and artist Merce Cunningham (attended), dancer and choreographer Manish Dayal, actor, known for 90210 Lester del Rey, author, founded Del Rey Books Donna Dixon, actress, wife of Dan Aykroyd Haddaway, Trinidadian singer most famous for 'What Is Love' single Kevin Peter Hall, actor, Predator Haroon, graduate in Business Administration, Pakistani singer, composer, musician and engineer Reona Ito, music conductor (alumnus of the Elliott School) Chris Kilmore, turntablist for the band Incubus Ross Martin, Television-Film-Radio actor-Most famous for Incubus Ross Martin's role on TV in the Wild,Wild West Rooney Mara (attended), actress, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Dina Merrill, actress and socialite Naeto C, Nigerian rapper Lee Phillip, Korean American actor Adam Richman (attended for one year), indie pop singer-songwriter Mark Russell, satirist and comedian Whitney Sudler-Smith, television personality and socialite Clay Travis, sports columnist and author Bill Westenhofer, Academy Award-winning visual effects artist Nathan Hale Williams, film and television producer, entertainment lawyer Scott Wolf (1991), actor First Family and royalty