{"id":17818,"date":"2011-06-24T00:22:09","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T13:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=17818"},"modified":"2011-06-24T00:29:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T13:59:02","slug":"vale-david-rayfiel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2011\/06\/24\/vale-david-rayfiel\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale &#8211; David Rayfiel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17819\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17819\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17819\" title=\"Rayfiel1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/23rayfiel-articleInline-v2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"267\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17819\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Rayfiel - 1923-2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Acclaimed Hollywood screenwriter David Rayfiel has passed away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rayfiel primarily worked quite closely with Sydney Pollack and Robert Redford, and when not with those guys, wrote material for luminaries such as Sidney Lumet (<em>The Morning After<\/em>) and Ingmar Bergman (<em>The Serpent&#8217;s Egg<\/em>). Among his more familiar works are <em>Three Days of The Condor, Out Of Africa, Jeremiah Johnson, Havana, The Firm, The Interpreter<\/em>, as well as non-Pollack films such as <em>Sabrina<\/em> and the Richard Gere\/Sharon Stone thriller <em>Intersection<\/em>. Mr Rayfiel&#8217;s first film contribution came with the Sidney Poitier starrer, <em>The Slender Thread<\/em>, when he was called upon to assist then-main screenwriter Stirling Silliphant. From there, director Sidney Pollack worked with him on films such as <em>This Property Is Condemned<\/em> and<em> Castle Keep<\/em>, before moving into bigger budget mainstream features.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Rayfiel passed away from congestive heart failure on June 22. He was 87.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Acclaimed Hollywood screenwriter David Rayfiel has passed away. 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