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A Short Biography of Mario Gianluigi Puzo

Author Name:

Mario Gianluigi Puzo

Born As:

Mario Gianluigi Puzo

Other Names:

Mario Cleri

Born:

15 Oct 1920

Died:

02 Jul 1999




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Novelist and screenwriter                          
Selected Works:

Novels:

The Dark Arena - 1955
The Fortunate Pilgrim - 1965
The Runaway Summer of Davie Shaw - 1966
Six Graves to Munich - 1967, as Mario Cleri
The Godfather - 1969
Fools Die - 1978
The Sicilian - 1984 sequel to The Godfather
The Fourth K - 1991
The Last Don - 1996
Omerta - 2000
The Family - 2002

Nonfiction:

The Godfather Papers and Other Confessions - 1972
Inside Las Vegas - 1977

Short Stories:

The Last Christmas - 1950

Screenplays:

The Godfather - 1972
The Godfather Part II - 1974
Earthquake - 1974
Superman: The Movie - 1978
Superman II - 1980
The Godfather Part III - 1990
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery - 1992.

Co-wrote Richard Donner's Superman: The Movie and the original draft for Superman II.

Collaborated on the stories for the 1982 movie 'A Time to Die ' and the 1984 Francis Ford Coppola movie 'The Cotton Club'.
                          
Wife Lina Broske, five children.                          
The movie 'The Godfather', received 11 Academy Award nominations, winning three, including an Oscar for Puzo for Best Adapted Screenplay, directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

Coppola and Puzo collaborated then to work on sequels to the original film, The Godfather Part II and The Godfather Part III.