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Screenwriter Kurt Luedtke, Oscar Winner for ‘Out of Africa,’ Dies at 80

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Dave McNary Film ReporterKurt Luedtke, who left journalism for Hollywood and won an Academy Award for his “Out of Africa” screenplay, died Sunday in Michigan after a long illness.

He was 80.The Michigan native died at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, the Detroit Free Press reported. He had worked at the newspaper starting in 1965 and was part of the paper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the deadly 1967 riots in that city.

He became its executive editor before departing at the age of 33 to pursue a career as a screenwriter.Luedtke was able to sell Orion Picture his idea about a liquor warehouse owner whose life is almost destroyed by a reporter relying on an anonymous source.

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