Bill C. Davis, who wrote the Broadway two-hander Mass Appeal, then adapted the drama for the film version that starred Jack Lemmon, died Friday in Torrington, Connecticut, after a brief illness, a publicist announced.
He was 69. Mass Appeal, directed by Geraldine Fitzgerald, played at the Manhattan Theatre Club before moving to the Booth Theater on Broadway in 1981.
Starring Milo O'Shea as Father Tim Farley and Caddyshack's Michael O'Keefe as young seminarian Mark Dolson, it ran for more than 200 performances through May 1982. "By letting his characters grow and change, Mr.
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