Screenwriter, WGA stalwart Devery Freeman Dead at 92, developing...
October 13th, 2005
The Hollywood Reporter is announcing that Devery Freeman, a screenwriter who helped create the Writers Guild of America and also wrote for such TV series as "The Thin Man," has died. He was 92. Freeman, who had been ill since having open heart surgery in March, died Friday evening in Los Angeles, according to a statement on the guild's Web site. "His love of language never went unfulfilled in his writing, and he never exempted himself from the concerns and problems of writers," said fellow writer Leonard Stern. Freeman participated in the Screen Writers Guild's first negotiation with the studios in which the union won the right to determine writing credits. He was also instrumental in the group's 1954 reorganization that created the Writers Guild of America.
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