Norman Steinberg, the screenwriter behind the Mel Brooks comedy 'Blazing Saddles,' has passed away at 83.
Norman Steinberg, the screenwriter behind the Mel Brooks comedy , has died, according to a statement provided by his family. Per the statement, the late screenwriter died March 15 at his Hudson Valley home in upstate New York. He was 83.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, and a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh law school, Steinberg turned to comedy writing after life as an attorney did not turn out how he had imagined it would.
After taking a few gigs in New York, he moved to Los Angeles, where he was partnered with George Carlin writing for NBC’s comedy-variety series Brooks later hired Steinberg and Richard Pryor to work on the draft of a screenplay by Andrew Bergman, for a comic Western -- then called the classic Western spoof starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder.
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