Know For
Writing
Gender
Female
Birthday
1950-06-03 (65 years old)
Deathday
2015-11-04
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Also known As
Josh Rogan
Melissa Marie Mathison (June 3, 1950 – November 4, 2015) was an American film and television screenwriter and an activist for the Tibetan independence movement. She was best known for writing the screenplays for the films The Black Stallion (1979) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), the latter of which earned her the Saturn Award for Best Writing and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Mathison later wrote The Indian in the Cupboard (1995), based on Lynne Reid Banks's 1980 children's novel of the same name, and Kundun (1997), a biographical-drama film about the Dalai Lama. Her final film credit was The BFG (20...
1996
1998
2017
as Self
2012
as Self
1982
as Elliot's School Nurse (uncredited)
1982
as Screenplay
1995
as Screenplay
1997
as Screenplay
1979
as Screenplay
1982
as Associate Producer
2016
as Screenplay
1983
as Screenplay
1997
as Co-Producer
2016
as Associate Producer
1979
as Executive Assistant
1982
as Screenplay
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