The screenwriter of my favorite movie, To Kill a Mockingbird, died yesterday. "Miss Jeane Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'"
Horton Foote, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter who took the lives of ordinary Americans and with simplicity, honesty and grace made their stories important, too, died in Hartford on Wednesday afternoon. He was 92.
Foote was in town staying with his daughter, actress Hallie Foote, who is in the current Hartford Stage production of "To Kill A Mockingbird." She performed her role as the adult Jean Louis "Scout" Finch at Wednesday night's performance.
"He was a wonderful father and a fine man, but I can hear him say, 'Get to the theater, darling,'"said Hallie Foote on Wednesday afternoon.
The Texas-born Foote won his first Oscar for the screenplay of 1962's Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird," which starred Gregory Peck as the honorable lawyer Atticus Finch, and his second for 1983's "Tender Mercies," starring Robert Duvall as a struggling country singer. Both actors won Oscars for their roles.
http://www.courant.com/entertainment/stage/hc-hortonfooteobit.artmar05,0,6022937.story
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