death_date death_place birth_place nationality name birth_date article_title birth_name occupation death_cause
28 april 1999 los angeles , california , united states detroit , michigan , united states american donald stewart 24 january 1930 donald e. stewart
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donald e. stewart

donald e. stewart -lrb- 24 january 193028 april 1999 -rrb- was an american-born screenwriter , most well known for his screenplay for `` missing '' , which won the academy award for writing adapted screenplay , the writers guild of america award , the london film critics ' circle award , a christopher award , -lrb- www.christophers.org -rrb- and the bafta award for best screenplay , all shared with the film 's director , costa-gavras .
the screenplay for `` missing '' is used in film schools for instruction in structure and development .
he also wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for the tom clancy-trilogy of jack ryan films `` the hunt for red october '' , `` patriot games '' and `` clear and present danger '' .
in his oscar acceptance speech for `` missing '' , stewart not only thanked the film 's director -lrb- `` my co-writer and friend '' -rrb- but he also thanked charles horman , the american journalist whose disappearance was the centerpiece of the film .
when interviewed about what impact the foreign policy issues raised by `` missing '' had on audiences , stewart commented : '' `` movies have a tendency to really heat up the emotions . '' ''
born in detroit , michigan , he had an early passion for cars .
he began his writing career as a journalist for the detroit times .
in his 20 's , he founded and co-published `` competition press '' , a weekly magazine devoted to car-racing that eventually became `` autoweek '' ; he also briefly edited `` motor life '' magazine .
in 1960 he left reporting and moved to new york for the advertising industry , becoming copywriter and creative executive for a series of agencies such as j. walter thompson , young & rubicam and bbd & o. not surprisingly , he specialised in advertising copy for the motor trade , an area of booming competition in the car-obsessed economy of sixties america .
he became creative director of the fletcher-richards agency and an expert on all things automobile .
he moved to hollywood in his 40 's to try his hand at screenwriting ; his first film was roger corman 's `` jackson county jail '' and his last was `` dead silence '' , a tv-movie starring james garner .
he died in his home in los angeles of cancer in 1999 , at the age of 69 .
