John Gay Dead: Movie & TV Screenwrer Was 92 - Variety

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• ‘SEPARATE TABL’ SCREENWRER JOHN GAY DI AT 92
• JOHN GAY
• JOHN GAY(1924-2017)
• JOHN GAY DI: ‘RUN SILENT RUN DEEP’ SCREENWRER WAS 92
• ‘SEPARATE TABL’ SCREENWRER JOHN GAY DI AT 92

‘SEPARATE TABL’ SCREENWRER JOHN GAY DI AT 92

John Gay, known for wrg movi cludg “Run Silent Run Deep, ” “Separate Tabl, ” “The Hallelujah Trail” and “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father, ” died on Feb. Gay shared an Osr wrg nom wh Terrence Rattigan for the screenplay for “Separate Tabl, ” a 1958 romantic drama starrg Burt Lanster, Ra Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, and David Niven. Long active the Wrers Guild of Ameri, Gay wrote 14 feature films and 39 miseri and TV movi, scriptg projects for John Hton, Vcent Mnelli and John Sturg.

Gay started out live televisn starrg wh his wife Barbara “Mr. ” He went on to wre featur cludg “The Hallelujah Trail, ” “The Four Horsemen of the Apolypse” (-wrten by Robert Ardrey), “The Power, ” “Sometim a Great Natn, ” “Pocket Money” (screenplay by Terence Malick, adaptatn by John Gay), “Hennsey, ” “A Matter of Time, ” “Soldier Blue, ” and “No Way to Treat a Lady.

Born Whtier, California, Gay was a WGAW member sce 1958. He published an tobgraphy 2008, “Any Way I Can – 50 Years Show Bs, ” -wrten wh his dghter, Jennifer Gay Summers.

JOHN GAY

Gay is survived by son Lawrence, dghters Jennifer Summers and Elizabeth Powell, and three grandchildren. John Gay, (born June 30, 1685, Barnstaple, Devon, Eng. A member of an ancient but impoverished Devonshire fay, Gay was ted at the ee grammar school Barnstaple.

Gay’s journalistic terts are clearly seen a pamphlet, The Prent State of W (1711), a survey of ntemporary perdil publitns. It is such lite probg of the surface of social life that Gay excels.

Gay was a member, together wh Pope, Jonathan Swift, and John Arbuthnot, of the Scribles Club, a lerary group that aimed to ridicule pedantry. The iends ntributed to two of Gay’s satiril plays: The What D’ye Call It (1715) and Three Hours After Marriage (1717) most succsful play was The Beggar’s Opera, produced London on Jan. “Hont” John Gay lost most of his money through disastro vtment South Sea stock, but he nohels left £6, 000 when he died.

JOHN GAY(1924-2017)

John Gay, whose wrg creds for film and TV clu big-screen fare like Run Silent Run Deep and The Courtship of Eddie’s Father and, on the small screen reach back to televisn’s Goln Age and ntued through the 1980s and ’90s wh such mi-seri as Fatal Visn and Cel Doubt, died Febary 4 Santa Moni. He was ath was announced by the Wrers Guild of Ameri, -wrote a 2008 tobgraphy Any Way I Can – 50 Years Show Bs wh dghter Jennifer Gay Summers, who surviv him. Other survivors clu dghter Elizabeth Powell, son Lawrence and three on April 1, 1924, Whtier, California, Gay was a WGAW member sce 1958.

Acrdg to the WGAW, Gay began his reer as an actor and wrer live televisn, and wrote and starred wh wife Barbara New York’s lol WOR seri Mr.

JOHN GAY DI: ‘RUN SILENT RUN DEEP’ SCREENWRER WAS 92

Mystery, which led to wrg gigs for such Goln Age seri as Playhoe 90, The Ala Hour, General Electric Theater, Lux Vio Theatre, Armstrong Circle Theatre, Centre Stage, The Stranger, and Goodyear Playhoe, among one of his televisn episos was seen by actor Burt Lanster, Gay was summoned to Hollywood to wre 1958’s Run Silent Run Deep, the submare tale starrg Lanster and Clark Gable. Over the next six s, he wrote 14 feature films, 39 movi and miseri for televisn and two Broadway TV creds clu adaptatns of A Tale of Two Ci and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and his Emmy-nomated script for docudrama Fatal Visn (about the Jefey McDonald murrs) was nomated for an Amy Award and a WGA Award for -wrg (wh Terrence Rattigan) Separate Tabl starrg Lanster, Deborah Kerr, Ra Hayworth and David 1984, Gay received the WGAW’s hight honor for televisn wrg, the Paddy Chayefsky Lrel Award for Televisn Wrg Achievement, and 1992 the WGAW’s Man Cox Award for Guild service. ”While servg on the WGAW’s Board of Directors (1971-75, 1977-79), as well as durg his tenure as Vice Print (1985-87), Gay helped the Guild through several difficult negotiatns.

The play opened on Broadway wh Vcent Price, and had succsful ns around the other screenwrg creds clu The Hallelujah Trail, The Four Horsemen of the Apolypse (-wrten by Robert Ardrey), The Power, Sometim a Great Natn, Pocket Money (screenplay by Terence Malick, adaptatn by John Gay), Hennsey, A Matter of Time, Soldier Blue and No Way to Treat a ’s televisn wrg creds clu The Ken Murray Show, Shadow of the Cloak, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, and Espnage, as well as telefilms All My Darlg Dghters, My Darlg Dghters’ Anniversary, The Chadwick Fay, Thgs Their Season, The Red Badge of Courage, Adventur of the Queen, The Amazg Howard Hugh, The Court Martial of Gee Armstrong Cter, Captas Courageo, L Miserabl, Transplant, A Private Battle, The Bunker, Berl Tunnel 21, Dial M for Murr, Stand by Your Man, The Long Summer of Gee Adams, A Piano for Mrs.

‘SEPARATE TABL’ SCREENWRER JOHN GAY DI AT 92

Cimo, Ivanhoe, Samson and Delilah, Doubletake, Uncle Tom’s Cab (for which he received a CableACE nomatn), Inher the Wd, and the miseri Wdls of the Gods, Around the World 80 Days, Bld Fah, Cel Doubt, Fal Notice, and Burn of fay asks that, li of flowers, donatns be ma to The Wrers Guild Foundatn honor of Gay. He was shared an Osr wrg nom wh Terrence Rattigan for the screenplay for “Separate Tabl, ” a 1958 romantic drama starrg Burt Lanster, Ra Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, and David active the Wrers Guild of Ameri, Gay wrote 14 feature films and 39 miseri and TV movi, scriptg projects for John Hton, Vcent Mnelli and John Sturg.

He published an tobgraphy 2008, “Any Way I Can – 50 Years Show Bs, ” -wrten wh his dghter, Jennifer Gay is survived by son Lawrence, dghters Jennifer Summers and Elizabeth Powell, and three grandchildren.