Malcolm Marmorstein, the screenwriter of the 1970s Disney hits Pete’s Dragon and Return From Witch Mountain and who, a decade earlier, was a key element of the Dark Shadows writing staff when ABC’s Gothic soap opera famously introduced vampire character Barnabas Collins, died Saturday Nov.
21 in Los Angeles. He was 92.The cause of death was cancer, his stepdaughter Romy Fleming told Deadline.A New Jersey native, Marmorstein began his career as a stagehand and stage manager on Broadway, working on such iconic productions as A Streetcar named Desire with Marlon Brando and Damn Yankees with Gwen Verden.Before moving to Los Angeles in 1967, Marmorstein began writing for the New York-based soap The Doctors, where he was head writer before being
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