| LC control no. | n 85360971 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Luedtke, Kurt |
| Associated place | Detroit (Mich.) |
| Located | Birmingham (Mich.) |
| Birth date | 1939-09-28 |
| Death date | 2020-08-09 |
| Place of birth | Grand Rapids (Mich.) |
| Place of death | Royal Oak (Mich.) |
| Field of activity | Motion picture authorship Journalism |
| Profession or occupation | Screenwriters Journalists |
| Found in | His Out of Africa, 1987: CIP t.p. (Kurt Luedtke) Washington post WWW site, viewed Aug. 11, 2020 (Kurt Luedtke, who relinquished a top perch in journalism for a pipe dream of screenwriting, only to earn an Oscar nod for his first script, the newspaper and legal thriller "Absence of Malice," and a win for his second, the romantic drama "Out of Africa," died Aug. 9 in Royal Oak, Mich. He was 80. At the Detroit Free Press, he helped direct Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the civil unrest that enveloped the city in the summer of 1967. At 33, Mr. Luedtke landed the top editorship at the Free Press. He resigned in 1978. Kurt Mamre Luedtke was born in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Sept. 28, 1939. In 1966, a year after joining the Free Press, he inaugurated the popular Action Line column. In 1965, Mr. Luedtke married Eleanor Kruglinski. Even amid his screenwriting career, they remained in Michigan and, at his death, were residents of the Detroit suburb of Birmingham) |
| Associated language | eng |
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