Bo Goldman, Oscar-winning screenwriter of ‘One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest,’ dies at 90

NEW YORK---Bo Goldman, who penned the Oscar-winning scripts to "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Melvin and Howard" and whose textured, empathy-rich screenplays made him one of Hollywood's finest writers, has died. He was 90. Goldman died Tuesday, July 25, in Helendale, California, his son-in-law, the director Todd Field, said. No details on the cause of death were given. It wasn't until Goldman was in his 40s, after years of struggle as a playwright, that he found success in Hollywood. In 1975, he adapted Ken Kesey's "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" for his first film credit. The film, directed by Milo Forman and starring Jack Nicholson as a patient in a psychiatric ward...Keep on reading: Bo Goldman, Oscar-winning screenwriter of ‘One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest,’ dies at 90

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