---
name: "Aaron Latham"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/aaron-latham"
fi1m_id: "aaron-latham"
imdb_id: "nm0490061"
tmdb_id: 1193568
wikidata_id: "Q4662181"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "3 October 1943"
died: "1 January 2022"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T16:55:53.791091+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Aaron Latham

## Identity

Aaron Latham

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/aaron-latham
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** aaron-latham
- **IMDb ID:** nm0490061
- **TMDB ID:** 1193568
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4662181
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Latham, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4662181, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0490061/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1193568

Writer. Born 3 October 1943 in Spur. Died 1 January 2022.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 3 October 1943, Spur
- **Died:** 1 January 2022
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Latham, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4662181, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0490061/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1193568

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Urban Cowboy*](https://film.one/film/urban-cowboy.md) (61)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Aaron Latham was an American journalist, screenwriter and novelist. Born in Spur, Texas, he was educated at Amherst College and Princeton University, where he earned a PhD in English. His early career included reporting for the Washington Post before he wrote longer-form articles for Esquire and other magazines.

His 1978 Esquire piece on the honky-tonk Gilley’s inspired the 1980 film *Urban Cowboy*, for which he wrote the screenplay with James Bridges. He later co-wrote the screenplays for *Perfect* (1985) and *The Program* (1993). Latham also wrote novels, including works in a Texas trilogy, and co-wrote the book for the 2003 Broadway musical adaptation of *Urban Cowboy*.

He was married to journalist Lesley Stahl of CBS’s *60 Minutes* and had one daughter, Taylor Latham.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, washingtonpost.com, thetexasspur.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Urban Cowboy* (1980), Fi1m 61, Original Story, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/urban-cowboy.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Program* (1993), Writer
- *Perfect* (1985), Screenplay, Original Story
- *Urban Cowboy* (1980), Original Story, Screenplay — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/film/urban-cowboy.md)

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay 1986: Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay (nominated), for *Perfect*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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