12 Facts About Alan Trustman

Alan Trustman developed shopping centers and bought and sold businesses in competition with the major New York law firms.

In 1967, Alan Trustman wrote his first screenplay, The Thomas Crown Affair.

Alan Trustman had written the script for Sean Connery but producer Walter Mirisch and director Norman Jewison cast Steve McQueen, who had been pursuing the role, the first in which he plays against his usual blue-collar man of action persona.

Alan Trustman felt the script had to be rewritten for McQueen and spent a week of 16-hour days at United Artists in New York screening film on McQueen and making lists of what McQueen liked, didn't like, did well, and could not do.

The success of The Thomas Crown Affair was followed by another McQueen movie, Bullitt, which Alan Trustman wrote in 20 hours.

Alan Trustman left the movie business after four years when he refused to write McQueen's racing car picture, Le Mans, because McQueen insisted the hero had to be a loser.

Alan Trustman worked on the scripts for Crime and Passion and The Next Man.

Roger Corman was going to make a film based on a Alan Trustman script called Our Man Ho in 1999, but it was never made.

At the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, Alan Trustman was honored for his part in film history at the annual "For the Love of Cinema" awards dinner.

In 1974, Alan Trustman became an officer, executive committee member and director of World Jai-Alai, which became in four years a highly successful public company operating pari-mutuel facilities in Miami, Tampa, Ft.

Alan Trustman left in 1978 and has spent most of his time since then trading currencies and precious metals out of Geneva.

Previously Alan Trustman was married to Playboy magazine cartoon editor Michelle Urry.