Donald Edward Stewart (1930 - 1999)

Born 24 Jan 1930 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States

Ancestors

Died 28 Apr 1999 at age 69 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States

Biography

Donald was born in 1930. He was the son of Archie Stewart and Sarah Campbell.

He passed away in 1999 and is buried in Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, California.^[1]

Obituary^[2]

Donald Stewart, who wrote screenplays for three Tom Clancy books and won an Oscar in 1982 for "Missing," has died. He was 69.

Mr. Stewart died of cancer Wednesday at his Los Angeles home, Nancy Fenderson, spokeswoman for Pierce Bros. Westwood Village Mortuary, said Thursday. The funeral will be private.

Mr. Stewart's first screenplay was "Jackson County Jail" in 1976. He also wrote the movie scripts for the Clancy movies "The Hunt for Red October," "Clear and Present Danger" and "Patriot Games."

He is survived by his wife, Joan, and children Scott Stewart of Grosse Isle, Mich., Sarah Casselman of Pinckney, Mich., and Peter Stewart of Jacksonville, Fla.

Screen Writing Career

Academy Award-winning screenwriter. His first film was Roger Corman's Jackson County Jail and his last was Dead Silence, a TV-movie starring James Garner (1997). He also wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for the Tom Clancy-trilogy of Jack Ryan films The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger. In 1982, he won the Best Screenplay Oscar for the drama Missing. See His Acceptance Speech.

Residence

1930, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan^[3]

1940, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #22311
2. ↑ San Diego Union-Tribune, The (CA) - Saturday, May 1, 1999
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7S3-DWJ : accessed 12 April 2015), Donald E Stewart in household of Archie Stewart, Detroit (Districts 0501-0750), Wayne, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 0541, sheet 108A, family 6, line 16, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1054; FHL microfilm 2,340,789.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KH9Y-2H7 : accessed 12 April 2015), Donald Stewart in household of Archie Stewart, Ward 16, Detroit, Detroit City, Wayne, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 84-1049A, sheet 4B, family 92, NARA digital publication T627 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012), roll 1871.