Jeremy Larner, Oscar-Winning Screenwriter on Robert Redford’s ‘The Candidate,’ Dies at 88
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A speechwriter for presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy, he also adapted his novel for the Jack Nicholson-directed ‘Drive, He Said.’
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Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Jeremy Larner, whose experience as a speechwriter for 1968 presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy informed his Oscar-winning screenplay for the Robert Redford -starring The Candidate , has died. He was 88. Larner had been ill for some time and died Feb. 24 in a nursing facility in Oakland, California, his son Jesse Larner told The Hollywood Reporter . For his only other produced screenplay, Larner adapted his 1964 novel Drive, He Said , for the audacious basketball-centric 1971 film of the same name that marked the feature directorial debut of Jack Nicholson. Related Stories Movies Alan Trustman, Screenwriter on 'The Thomas Crown Affair' and 'Bullitt,' Dies at 95 Movies James G. Robinson, Producer and Morgan Creek Co-Founder, Dies at 90 Larner had joined McCarthy on the campaign trail in March 1968, with the Minnesota senator, running on a platform to end the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, attempting to secure the Democratic Party’s nomination for president. McCarthy appeared on his way to victory, but following the withdrawal of President Lyndon Johnson from the race and the assassination of fellow candidate Robert F. Kennedy, the nomination would go to Vice President Hubert Humphrey. After writing Nobody Knows: Reflections on the McCarthy Campaign of 1968 , a book that gained traction when it was serialized in Harper’s magazine in 1969, Larner was approached by Redford and director Michael Ritchie to write the script for The Candidate (1972). In the Warner Bros. film, Redford stars as idealistic young liberal Bill McKay, a poverty lawyer and son of a wheeling-dealing governor (Melvyn Douglas) who is groomed by a political consultant (Peter Boyle) to run against Republican incumbent Crocker Jarman (Don Porter) for senator in Californ...
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