Kevin Jarre

Kevin Noel Jarre (August 6, 1954 – April 3, 2011) was an American screenwriter, actor, and film producer. He adopted the last name of his adoptive father, Maurice Jarre.

Background and personal life Jarre was born on August 6, 1954, in Detroit, Michigan, to actress Laura Devon and her second husband, Cleland B. Clark. After his parents divorced, he lived in Wyoming for a time with his father, whom he referred to as Hemingwayesque, and who had combined ranching and fashion photography. He then returned to Los Angeles with his mother, who was married at that time to actor Brian Kelly. In the mid-1960s, Devon subsequently married French composer Maurice Jarre, who adopted Kevin.

Career In the 1960s, Jarre had small acting parts in the TV series Flipper. In England, while his father was scoring the film Ryan's Daughter, Kevin became a friend of writer-director David Lean, who encouraged him to take up screenwriting and directing, giving him the books James Boswell's Life of Johnson and Alan Moorehead's The Blue Nile and The White Nile. He played a bit part as a quarrelsome soldier who picks a fight and later, as the 54th regiment heads for battle, yells, "Give 'em hell, 54th!" For his work on Glory, he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay and a WGA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Jarre also wrote the screenplays for The Mummy (1999) and The Devil's Own (1997).

Jarre often worked as a script doctor, rewriting scripts, such as the 1997 movie The Jackal (for which Jarre served as a producer), among other films.

The screenplays of The Devil's Own, Tombstone, and The Mummy were published as novels in 1997, 1994, and 1999 respectively.

Death Jarre died on April 3, 2011, at his home in Santa Monica, California, of heart failure, at the age of 56.

Filmography Year Film Credit Notes 1985 Rambo: First Blood Part II 1989 Glory Writer1993 Tombstone Writer Director of Charlton Heston scenes, Uncredited1997 The Devil's Own Unproduced draft of The Alamo for Imagine Films. A Civil War suspense story about Ward Hill Lamon, the friend and bodyguard of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln that would have been produced by Bill Pace and Ronnie Clemmer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and United Artists. Dead of Summer Eternal War, an unproduced screenplay that was said to be based on a true story about high level government corruption. Golden Gate Iron, a screenplay that would have been directed by Derick Martini Hot Springs, a story assignment for Paramount Pictures. The original script for Judgment Night. A remake of The Magnificent Seven Track Down, an unproduced screenplay written by Ron Mita and Jim McClain that Jarre was going to rewrite for Columbia Pictures. A film about the life and times of Wild Bill Hickok that he would have directed.

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