Malcolm Marmorstein, a screenwriter who worked on the first season of the soap opera Dark Shadows and on films including Pete's Dragon, Return From Witch Mountain and S*P*Y*S, has died.
He was 92. Marmorstein, who started out as a Broadway stagehand, died Nov. 21 in Los Angeles of cancer, his son Wayne Marmorstein announced.
Marmorstein counted Elliott Gould as a good friend, and in addition to writing S*P*Y*S (1974), which reteamed the actor with his M*A*S*H co-star Donald Sutherland, he pennedWhiffs (1975), a comedy starring Gould and his then-girlfriend, Jennifer O'Neil, and wrote and directed Dead Men Don't Die (1990), starring Gould as a newscaster-turned zombie.
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