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name: "Erich Segal"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/erich-segal"
roles: ["Screenwriter"]
born: "16 June 1937"
died: "17 January 2010"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T06:17:29.784804+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."
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# Erich Segal

Screenwriter. Born 16 June 1937 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. Died 17 January 2010.

## Details

- **Work:** Screenwriter
- **Born:** 16 June 1937, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- **Died:** 17 January 2010
- **Also known as:** Erich Wolf Segal
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q315343, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0781777/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/56873

## Biography

Erich Segal was an American writer, screenwriter and classicist. He wrote the screenplay for the animated Beatles film *Yellow Submarine* (1968) and the novel *Love Story* (1970), which he also adapted for the screen.

Segal was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1937. He graduated from Harvard University in 1958 as class poet and Latin salutatorian, later earning a master's degree and doctorate from the same institution. He taught classics at Yale University and held visiting positions at other universities including Oxford.

His academic work included the book *Roman Laughter: The Comedy of Plautus* (1968). The success of *Love Story* brought him widespread recognition, though he continued to publish both popular fiction and scholarly works until his death in 2010.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, nytimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Yellow Submarine* (1968), Fi1m 74, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/yellow-submarine.md)

## Also known for

- *Love Story* (1970), Writer

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