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Aug 13, 2020 · Kurt Mamre Luedtke was born on Sept. 28, 1939, in Grand Rapids, Mich., and grew up there, a son of Herman and Virginia (Victory) Luedtke. His father was a lumber broker, his mother a homemaker.
Aug 9, 2020 · 0:04. 1:29. Kurt Luedtke, the former Detroit Free Press executive editor who went on to win an Academy Award for his "Out of Africa" screenplay, has died. He was 80. Luedtke, after a long illness ...
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Aug 10, 2020 · Luedtke died Sunday at a hospital in Royal Oak, Mich., his wife, Eleanor, said. He was 80. Luedtke’s first film, 1981’s “ Absence of Malice ,” starring Sally Field and Paul Newman, was a ...
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0:00. 6:06. Kurt Luedtke, who won an Academy Award for the 1985 film "Out of Africa, was nominated for an Oscar for the newspaper drama "Absence of Malice" and a former Free Press editor, died ...
Aug 16, 2020 · WASHINGTON — 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 ...
Aug 10, 2020 · Aug. 10, 2020 12:32 PM PT. Kurt Luedtke, who rose to be the top editor of a major American newspaper by the age of 33 and then abruptly left journalism to become an Oscar-winning Hollywood ...
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Aug 10, 2020 · By Dave McNary. ASSOCIATED PRESS. Kurt Luedtke, who left journalism for Hollywood and won an Academy Award for his “ Out of Africa ” screenplay, died Sunday in Michigan after a long illness ...
