R.I.P. Kurt Luedtke

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He apparently came from money and didn't need to work a lot. He was ill for a long time before his death.

The Detroit Free Press, where he was an executive, has a more detailed obituary.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/ ... 315562001/
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He had three screenplays produced over an 18 year period, all with the same director, and no other film credits. I know his first career was as a journalist and newspaper editor, but is this one of those cases where there are probably A) a mountain of unproduced screenplays; and/or B) a lot of screenplays where he did uncredited rewrites? Or did he just not do anything else? Wikipedia says he died in Michigan, in a Detroit suburb. None of the obituaries I've looked at seem to give any insight as to what he was up to.
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Oscar winning screenwriter for his adaptation of Out of Africa:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Luedtke
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