Melissa Mathison
Writing
June 3, 1950
Died November 4, 2015 (65 years old)
Los Angeles, California, USA
7
Acting Credits
Biography
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 Ba...
Known For
Filmography
Spielberg
2017
as Self
7.5
The 'E.T.' Journals
2012
as Self
10
Refuge
2006
as Self
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special
2002
as Self
7.3
In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese
1998
as Self
7.3
The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'
1996
as Self
7.4
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1982
as Elliot's School Nurse (uncredited)
7.5