# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kurt-luedtke
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:58:40.451Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kurt-luedtke"
name: "Kurt Luedtke"
slug: "kurt-luedtke"
description: "Kurt Luedtke was an American screenwriter and executive editor of the Detroit Free Press. He wrote Out of Africa (1985), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He also wrote Absence of Malice (1981), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, as well as Random Hearts (1999). All three films were directed by Sydney Pollack."
tagline: "Playwright, screenwriter (1939-2020)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cf/Cropped_Photo_of_Kurt_Luedtke.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-09-28"
deathDate: "2020-08-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.42
  momentum:             6.964285714285715
  historical:           10.48603466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0525104/"
    handle:    "nm0525104"
sources:
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    title: "Kurt Luedtke"
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    title: "كورت لويدتك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Luedtke"
    title: "Kurt Luedtke"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Luedtke"
    title: "Kurt Luedtke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Luedtke"
    title: "Kurt Luedtke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AA%DA%A9%DB%8C"
    title: "کرت لوتکی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Luedtke"
    title: "Kurt Luedtke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Luedtke"
    title: "Kurt Luedtke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Luedtke"
    title: "Kurt Luedtke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Luedtke"
    title: "Kurt Luedtke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Luedtke"
    title: "Kurt Luedtke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1793822"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Kurt Luedtke"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump