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Nelson Gidding's Death

Born (Birthday) September 15, 1919

Death Date May 1, 2004

Age of Death 84 years

Cause of Death Congestive Heart Failure

Profession Screenwriter

The screenwriter Nelson Gidding died at the age of 84. Here is all you want to know, and more!

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Oscar-nominated for I Want To Live! who was known for writing adaptations of books like Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), The Haunting (1963), Lost Command (1966), and The Andromeda Strain (1971).

He married Chun-Ling Wang in 1998.

Nelson Gidding, a Hollywood screenwriter who worked on classics like the Susan Hayward prison drama ”I Want to Live!,” died on May 2 at a hospital in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 84 and lived in Los Angeles. The cause was congestive heart failure, his family said.