1. Sydney Alvin Field was an American author who wrote several books on screenwriting, the first being Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting.
16 Facts About Syd Field
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Syd Field led workshops and seminars about producing salable screenplays.
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Syd Field was born on December 19,1935, in Hollywood, California.
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Syd Field's uncle, Sol Halprin, was the head of the camera department at 20th Century Fox, and his neighbor was a talent agent who got him minor screen time in Gone with the Wind which was cut from the final film.
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Syd Field played the trumpet in State of the Union.
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Syd Field attended Hollywood High School where he met Frank Mazzola, the "gang consultant" on Rebel Without a Cause, who encouraged him to pursue acting.
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Syd Field's mother passed away during his senior year, which caused him to drift across the US for two years.
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Syd Field considered medical school at the behest of his mother to consider a "professional life", but he eventually earned a bachelor's degree in English from University of California, Berkeley, where he studied under Jean Renoir and was cast in his play, Carola.
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Renoir recommended that Syd Field attend UCLA Film School where Syd Field collaborated on a short film with Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek of The Doors.
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Syd Field wrote nine screenplays, one of which was produced as the Argentinian film, Los Banditos.
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Syd Field wrote and produced the television series Men in Crisis in 1964 and the Vegas nightlife documentary, Spree, in 1967; the latter of which he narrated.
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Syd Field was the head of story at Cinemobile System when founder Fouad Said decided to diversify the location services company into an entertainment studio.
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Syd Field taught screenwriting for the Master of Professional Writing Program at University of Southern California until 2001.
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Syd Field refers to the midpoint, a turning point around the middle of the screenplay.
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Syd Field met his second wife, Aviva, while leading a workshop in Vienna in the early 1990s.
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Syd Field died on November 17,2013, aged 77, at his home in Beverly Hills, California.