Comedy writer Buck Henry, the legendary scribe who co-wrote “The Graduate,” “Catch-22" and “To Die For” and co-created the TV series “Get Smart,” has died. Henry died in a Los Angeles hospital on Wednesday after a heart attack, his wife, Irene Ramp, told the Washington Post. He was nominated again for co-directing the 1978 afterlife comedy “Heaven Can Wait” with the film’s star, Warren Beatty. “I loved listening to his fake Japanese and responding to it as though I knew what he was talking about. That was the trick of that,” Henry told the TV Academy of Belushi in a series of interviews posted online in 2012.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 09, 2020 17:26 UTC