Horton Foote | 1916-2009
Foote won his second Oscar for the screenplay of “Tender Mercies,” a 1983 film that starred Robert Duvall. His first Academy Award was for “To Kill a Mockingbird.” (Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times)
Foote is shown in 1991 on the set of “Of Mice and Men,” which he adapted for the screen from the John Steinbeck work. The movie starred John Malkovich and Gary Sinise. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
President Clinton presents Foote with the National Medal of Arts during a ceremony at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington. (Rick Bowmer / Associated Press)
Foote on the set of “The Traveling Lady” at the Mabee Theatre at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Decades earlier he had adapted the play as the 1965 movie Baby the Rain Must Fall, starring Steve McQueen and Lee Remick. (Rod Aydelotte / Associated Press)
Foote holds his latest script in a photo taken at the Pacific Palisades home of his daughter Hallie, where he had been living in recent years. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
Foote at the Booth Theater in New York, where his play “Dividing the Estate” was presented. The cast included his daughter, Hallie Foote, who has often interpreted her father’s work, and her husband, Devon Abner. New York Times critic Ben Brantley called the play one of Foote’s masterworks. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
