Miles Hood Swarthout

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Miles Hood Swarthout


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in Ann Arbor, Michigan, The United States
May 01, 1946

Died
March 02, 2016

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Miles Swarthout is an aging author leaving in the South Bay of Southern California near the beach in Playa Del Rey. I'm basically trained as a screenwriter, attending the famed USC film/television school for my Masters in Telecommunications, after attaining an undergraduate degree in English literature at Claremont McKenna College in Pomona, CA. Better known for my screenplays for John Wayne's final Western film, The Shootist in 1976, based upon the novel by my late author father, Glendon Swarthout. I also adapted Glendon's Depression-era holiday story, A Christmas Gift, for a 1978 CBS TV-Movie starring Jason Robards and Joanne Woodward, which was retitled A Christmas To Remember. I have optioned several of my own original screenplays as we ...more

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The Shootist

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Bless the Beasts & Children

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The Last Shootist

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Easterns and Westerns

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The Sergeant's Lady

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