Biography
I. A. L. Diamond was a Romanian-born American screenwriter. Born Ițec Domnici on 27 June 1920 in Ungheni, Romania (now Moldova), he emigrated to Brooklyn, New York, as a child. He studied at Columbia University, graduating in 1941, and began writing for Paramount Pictures in the early 1940s.
Diamond is best known for his three-decade collaboration with Billy Wilder, which began with Love in the Afternoon (1957). Their joint screenplays include Some Like It Hot (1959), The Apartment (1960), for which he shared an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, One, Two, Three (1961), Irma la Douce (1963), The Fortune Cookie (1966) and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970). He also wrote Cactus Flower (1969) and contributed to The Front Page (1974). Diamond died on 21 April 1988 in Beverly Hills, California.
