一瞬Leonardと兄弟で、やはり映画脚本家であるPaul*1と混同してしまった。
Los Angeles Timesの記事なり；
Oscar-Nominated Writer Schrader Dies
By ROBERT JABLON, Associated Press Writer
5:23 PM PST, November 4, 2006LOS ANGELES -- Leonard Schrader, who earned an Academy Award nomination for his adaptation of "Kiss of the Spider Woman" and co-wrote the critically praised "Mishima," has died. He was 62.
Schrader, who lived in Los Angeles, died Thursday of heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, his brother, "Taxi Driver" screenwriter Paul Schrader, said Saturday.
Schrader had a number of ailments, including cancer, his brother said.He was born in Grand Rapids, Mich., to a family of Dutch Calvinists who forbade the brothers to see any movies.
"That was a church edict," Paul Schrader said. "What they called worldly amusements were prohibited."
Schrader didn't see his first film until he was in college in the 1960s.
Schrader attended the local Calvin College and received a master's degree at the Iowa Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa, where according to his Web site he studied with Kurt Vonnegut and Jorge Luis Borges.
In 1969 and the early 1970s, Schrader lived in Japan, where he taught American literature.
His first film was "The Yakuza," co-written in the 1970s with his brother and starring Robert Mitchum. Sydney Pollack directed.
Other films included 1985's "Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters," based on the life of the Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima, whom Schrader had met before his ritual suicide in 1970. Schrader co-wrote the screenplay with his wife, Chieko, and his brother. Paul Schrader directed the movie, while George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola were executive producers.
Schrader's adaptation of a book by Argentinian novelist Manuel Puig became "Kiss of the Spider Woman." It earned him a 1985 Oscar nomination and won William Hurt the award for best actor.
Survivors include his wife and brother.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-obit-schrader,1,7340547.story
ところで、Leonard Shraderの公式サイト*2の中のBiographyの
という一節は注目に値する。彼を文学、映画、さらには日本へと駆り立てたのは、ピューリタニズムの抑圧からの逃走だったわけだ。
Born in Grand Rapids Michigan to a Dutch Calvinist family where film and other forms of pop-culture were strictly forbidden, Leonard Schrader escaped his repressive upbringing and by 1968 finished his MFA at the University of Iowa's Writers Workshop (where he studied with Nelson Algren, Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Yates, Robert Coover, José Donoso, as well as Jorge Luis Borges). Between 1969-73 he escaped even further, slipping by night into the subculture of the Yamaguchi-Gumi (the dominant Yakuza gangster Family in Kyoto) while by day teaching American Literature at Doshisha University and Kyoto University in Japan.
http://www.leonardschrader.com/bio.shtm
