The influential author and teacher had worked as a script consultant for 20th Century Fox, Disney, Universal and TriStar Pictures. By THR Staff Syd Field - P 2013 Field wrote eight best-selling books ...

Syd Field, 77, the author of the screenplay manual that inspired James Cameron and Judd Apatow to make movies, died Sunday of a blood disorder at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. Field’s spokesman, ...

Syd Field, a legendary screenwriting instructor who tried to boil down filmmaking into an easily emulated “three act structure,” died Sunday of hemolytic anemia at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 77 ...

In the 1970s, Syd Field’s job in Hollywood was reading scripts all day and picking out the gems that might make it to the screen. In one two-year period he figured he read 2,000 screenplays — and ...

Screenwriting guru Syd Field has died. Field, who authored several books about screenwriting and conducted workshops and seminars on the subject, passed away at his home in Beverly Hills on Sunday as ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The author of the screenplay manual that inspired James Cameron and Judd Apatow to make movies has died. A spokesman for Syd Field says the author died Sunday of a blood disorder at ...

Syd Field, the influential screenwriting teacher who taught a generation of top scribes how to shape feature films and penned eight bestselling books on screenwriting, died Sunday at his home in ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The author of the screenplay manual that inspired James Cameron and Judd Apatow to make movies has died. A spokesman for Syd Field says the author died Sunday of a blood disorder at ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The author of the screenplay manual that inspired James Cameron and Judd Apatow to make movies has died. A spokesman for Syd Field says the author died Sunday of a blood disorder at ...

This undated image released by Random House shows author Syd Field. Field, the author of the screenplay manual that inspired James Cameron and Judd Apatow to make movies, died Sunday, Nov. 17, 2013, ...