Celebrity Biographies
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He achieved enormous prestige with “The Gift of Courage,” a film adaptation of Pat Conroy’s autobiographical novel, starring Robert Duvall as a Marine pilot. Lewis John Carlino died on June 16, 2020, at the age of 88, at his residence on Whidbey Island, in the state of Washington, of myelodysplastic syndrome, a blood disease, according to Alessa, his daughter.
Born on New Year’s Day, 1932, in New York, Lewis John Carlino was the son of a tailor, a Sicilian immigrant, and a homemaker. After serving in the Army for four years in the Korean War, he enrolled at the University of Southern California, Theater. He got his start as a playwright, with “The Brick and the Rose,” which opened at the Ivar Theater in Los Angeles. Although he continued to write works for the stage, he made his debut as a screenwriter in 1963 in the television series Route 66 .
Soon after, he turned to film, writing Devil’s Plan , which John Frankenheimer directed . It was followed by titles like La zorra , Coldly, for no personal reasons , and I never promised you a rose garden , for which he earned an Oscar nomination for best adapted screenplay. In 1976 he turned to filmmaking with Impure Days Abroad , which adapted a novel by Yukio Mishima , starring Kris Kristofferson , followed by the aforementioned The Gift of Courage . He only has one other film as a director, Class , from 1983, with Jacqueline Bisset .Lewis John Carlino retired after writing the 1999 TV movie Resurrection.
He was fascinated by writing about crime. “I’m very curious about how the mind of someone who is in the criminal underworld works,” Lewis John Carlino said in an interview. “I’m fascinated by how a person goes home at night after killing someone, plays with his children and spends time with his wife. That’s why I’ve done a lot of research on murderers and their methods.”