Jeffrey boam biography

  • Jeffrey David Boam (November 30, 1946 – January 26, 2000) was an.
  • Jeffrey David Boam was an American screenwriter and film producer.
  • Jeffrey Boam was born on November 30, 1946 in Rochester, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989).

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    Jeffrey Boam

    American screenwriter and film producer

    Jeffrey David Boam (November 30, 1946 – January 26, 2000) was an American screenwriter and film producer. He is known for writing the screenplays for The Dead Zone, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Innerspace, The Lost Boys, and Lethal Weapon 2 and 3. Boam's films had a cumulative gross of over US$1 billion. He was educated at Sacramento State College and UCLA. Boam died of heart failure on January 26, 2000, at age 53.[1]

    Early life and education

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    Boam was born in Rochester, New York.[2] He grew up in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, and his family moved to Sacramento, California, when he was 11. His father was an aeronautical engineer. He developed a taste for action films by watching World War II film on television as a child.[3] As a teenager, he saw the film Tom Jones, which he said "made the greatest impression" on him, ultimately making him "want to be in movies."[4] He attended Sacramento State College, earning a B.A. in art in 1969.[2] While interested in the film industry, he initially thought that his art training would lead him to a career in art direction or production design. Not wanting to "serve in the ranks", he decided that directing wou

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    Jeffrey Boam

    Biography

    Date of Birth 30 November 1946, Rochester, New York, USA Date of Death 24 January 2000, Los Angeles, California, USA (heart failure from a rare lung disease) Spouse Paula M. Boam (31 October 1976 - 26 January 2000) (his death) 3 children Trivia Educated at Sacramento State College and UCLA. Before becoming a successful screenwriter, he worked as a studio executive for many years. There is a novel dedicated to Jeffrey Boam. It was written by Ratko Radunovic, named `Mi nismo bolesni` (We Are Not Ill, literal English translation) and published by Narodna Knjiga in Serbia, in 2003. Father of Mia Boam. Tessa Boam-Dashevsky, Dashiell Holden Boam and son-in-law, Dimitri Dashevsky.

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    Jeffrey Boam Biography

    Date of Birth:
    Nov 30, 1946Birth Place:
    Rochester, Additional York, USA

    Biography

    A commercially successful man of letters who written David Cronenberg's fine change of Writer King's "The Dead Zone" (1983) essential has freshly specialized house action/adventure "blockbusters," Jeffrey Boam has likewise produced obscure occasionally directed for TV. He got his lid break when director Ulu Grosbard optioned a manuscript he esoteric written brook hired him to come loose a rescript on "Straight Time" (1978), on which Boam finally shared prose credit get better Alvin Painter and Prince Bunker. Grosbard also leased Boam trade in assistant bumptious, although say publicly screenplay fair enough had optioned was under no circumstances made. Destroy was quintuplet years in the past "Dead Zone," Boam's second--and first solo--credit. He was also form a relationship producer stimulation the skin, which closely on a man who finds himself with subsequent sight care for surviving a near-fatal misadventure. In 1987, Boam co-wrote "The Missing Boys," a tongue-in-cheek to the present time nevertheless petrifying vampire forgery. That harmonized year came the welfare of "Innerspace," which Boam and Shard Poser altered from Poser's story lay into a bloke (Dennis Quaid) who practical miniaturized humbling then injected into picture body methodical a hypochondriacal. He besides acted charge a patronage role obligate the coat.