11 Facts About Steve Shagan

Stephen H Shagan was an American novelist, screenwriter, and television and film producer.

Steve Shagan dropped out of high school and joined the United States Coast Guard when World War II broke out.

Steve Shagan came to Hollywood in 1958 with his wife, Elizabeth Florance "Betty" Ricker, whom he married on November 18,1956, in Quincy, Massachusetts.

Steve Shagan wrote the screenplay for and co-produced the 1973 film Save the Tiger, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and won a Writers Guild of America Award.

Steve Shagan had written the script first, and while he was shopping it around Hollywood, he wrote the novel to help him deal with the stress of trying to sell the script, which took two years to get produced.

Steve Shagan went on to write the novel City of Angels and its film adaptation, Hustle, both released in 1975.

Steve Shagan then wrote the screenplay for and co-produced Voyage of the Damned, for which he received another Academy Award nomination, this time for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Steve Shagan then adapted his 1979 novel The Formula into a 1980 film of the same name, which he co-produced and which reunited him with Save the Tiger director John G Avildsen.

Subsequent films written by Steve Shagan include The Sicilian, which he adapted from the novel by Mario Puzo, and Primal Fear, based on the novel by William Diehl.

Steve Shagan wrote the teleplay for the made-for-television movie Gotti, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries or a Special.

Steve Shagan died at his home in Los Angeles, California, on November 30,2015.