William Broyles Jr.
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William Dodson Broyles Jr. (b. October 8, 1944, Harris County, Texas) is an Academy Award-nominated American screenwriter who has worked on several popular films including the reality-based Apollo 13, for which he was nominated for an Oscar. Broyles began his screenwriting career as a writer on the series China Beach. Broyle's work has since proved popular. He has contributed to the success of such films as Entrapment starring Catherine Zeta Jones and Sean Connery, Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes remake, the award-nominated Unfaithful featuring Diane Lane and Richard Gere, Tom Hanks' The Polar Express and the war movies Jarhead , starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers.
Broyles was born to William Dodson Broyles, Sr. and Elizabeth Bills. He is a graduate of Rice University in Texas and was a Marshall Scholar at Oxford. He is also a veteran of the Vietnam war and wrote the book "Brothers in Arms" which documents his return to Vietnam as a civilian journalist fifteen years after having served as a lieutenant in the Marine Corps.
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