Ernest Thompson
Ernest Thompson ( born November 6, 1949 in Bellows Falls, Vermont ) is an American actor, director and screenwriter who wrote the screenplay for On Golden Pond (1981 ) won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, a Golden Globe Award for the won best screenplay as well as the price of the Writers Guild of America (WGA Award) for best Adapted Screenplay and also for a British Academy Film Award ( BAFTA film Award ) was nominated for Best Screenplay in 1983.
Life
Thompson worked as an actor and starred in television series such as Great Performances (1972 ), Somerset (1972 ), Sierra ( 1974) and West Side Medical ( 1977).
Staged in the lead roles for his first work as an author, based on his play The House based on the lake screenplay for On Golden Pond (1981 ), the Mark Rydell with Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda and Jane Fonda, he won at the Academy Awards 1982 Oscar for best Adapted Screenplay and also the Golden Globe Award for Best screenplay and the WGA Award for best Adapted Screenplay. In addition, he was nominated for the 1983 BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay.
In addition to his activities as a writer is Thompson, who is the owner of a theater in Kittery, he is also active as a director and directed 1969 (1988) as well as the TV movies The Westside Rhythm (1995), Out of Time (2000) and On Golden Pond ( 2001), a remake of on Golden Pond. For Out of Time, for which he also wrote the script, he was nominated for a 2001 Daytime Emmy Award for best director in a children's film.
The Story of On Golden Pond was beyond 2004 for the Japanese television entitled Kagayaku Mizuumi nite and filmed in 2009 as La Maison du Lac for French television.