Stanford Clarke Seidel; TV and Movie Writer

Stanford “Stan” Clarke Seidel, 48, screenwriter whose first major motion picture, “One Night at McCool’s,” was recently completed. “McCool’s,” which has yet to be released, is set in Seidel’s native St. Louis, and stars Michael Douglas, Matt Dillon, Andrew Dice Clay, John Goodman, Paul Reiser, Reba McEntire and Liv Tyler. During his 16-year career in Hollywood, Seidel also wrote for several television shows, including the early 1990s sitcoms “True Colors,” starring Cleavon Little and Stephanie Faracy as a racially mixed married couple, and “Where I Live,” starring Doug E. Doug as a teenager hanging out with his buddies on a Harlem stoop. At the time of his death, Seidel was adapting a novel into a script for Michael Douglas’ Further Films. The screenwriter graduated from Lindenwood College in Missouri and earned a master of fine arts degree in dramatic writing at New York University. On Friday in Los Angeles of complications of Crohn’s disease.