William W. Norton
William Wallace "Bill" Norton, Jr. ( * September 24 1925 in Ogden, Utah; † October 1, 2010 in Santa Barbara, California ) was an American screenwriter.
Life
Norton moved with his family after losing her ranch on Berkeley to El Monte. During the Second World War he served in the army and was used in Europe. He then found employment as a ranger in the National Park, California. In the 1950s and 1960s, he wrote his first stories for small literary magazines and stage plays that have been performed in small theaters in Los Angeles.
Norton was interested in politics and was at times the Communist Party, which is why he had to testify before the Committee on Un-American Activities. Even in later years, he remained, son of Mormon pioneers, a valiant representative on human rights and liberation theology. In the 1980s he supported the Catholic side in the conflict in Northern Ireland and was arrested for arms trafficking there and spent 19 months in prison. Then he and his Fau were granted asylum in Nicaragua. In the 1990s he lived in Cuba, but soon he pulled disappointed by the conditions there to Mexico. Under adventurous circumstances he came back to his home country. His latest, 1990 arisen script Exiled in America, processed parts of his own life.
He first worked for television by his involvement in the books to the TV show The Big Valley, his first successful movie was with iron fists in 1967 Over the next decade he wrote most of his 22 screenplays, including Brannigan -. A man of steel for John Wayne and animal horror film panic in the Sierra Nova.