Academy Award-winning screenwriter Michael Blake has died in Arizona due to heart failure at the age of 69. Blake won an Oscar for penning the script of “Dances With Wolves”.

Blake wrote the novel “Dances With Wolves” in 1988. It was turned into an Oscar-winning feature film. Along with screenplay, the movie won six other Oscars, including best picture. The script also won the prize at the WGA Awards and the Golden Globes. The extraordinary book has sold more than 3.5 million copies and was translated into 15 different languages.

Blake’s Other Novels

• Airman Mortensen
• Indian Yell
• Marching to Valhalla
• Twelve The King
• Like A Running Dog.

He is survived by his wife, Marianne, and their three children.

GK Questions

• The Cinema of the United States is referred as __________? Hollywood
• What is the name of the first film ever made in Hollywood? In Old California. 
• Who Directed Titanic and Avatar? James Cameroon