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American screenwriter (born 1940)

This article is about the screenwriter. For the golfer, see David Peoples (golfer).

David Webb Peoples (born February 9, 1940) is an American screenwriter who co-wrote Blade Runner (1982), and later wrote Unforgiven (1992), and 12 Monkeys (1995).

He has been nominated for Oscar, Golden Globe, and BAFTA awards. He won the best screenplay awards from the L.A. Film Critics (1991) and National Society of Film Critics (1992) for Unforgiven.

Early life

Peoples was born in Middletown, Connecticut, the son of Ruth Clara (née Levinger) and Joe Webb Peoples, a geologist.^[2][3][4] He studied English at the University of California, Berkeley.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Peoples worked as a film editor in the 1970s while writing screenplays^[5] but his writing career took off after he was hired as co-writer on Blade Runner by director Ridley Scott to rework the script written