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name: "Rudy Wurlitzer"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/rudy-wurlitzer"
fi1m_id: "rudy-wurlitzer"
imdb_id: "nm0943382"
tmdb_id: 64065
wikidata_id: "Q7377710"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1938"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-26T17:42:30.388791+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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# Rudy Wurlitzer

## Identity

Rudy Wurlitzer

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/rudy-wurlitzer
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** rudy-wurlitzer
- **IMDb ID:** nm0943382
- **TMDB ID:** 64065
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7377710
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Wurlitzer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7377710, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0943382/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/64065

Writer. Born 1 January 1938 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1938, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- **Active:** 1971–1973
- **Also known as:** Rudolph Wurlitzer 
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Wurlitzer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7377710, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0943382/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/64065

## Biography

Rudy Wurlitzer, also credited as Rudolph Wurlitzer, is an American novelist and screenwriter. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he attended Columbia University and served in the US Army before travelling and working as secretary to Robert Graves on Majorca. He returned to New York in the mid-1960s, where he met artists including Claes Oldenburg, Robert Frank and Philip Glass.

Wurlitzer wrote the screenplay for Monte Hellman’s *Two-Lane Blacktop* (1971), in which he also appeared as the Hot Rod Driver, and for Sam Peckinpah’s *Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid* (1973). His other screenplays include *Walker* (1987), *Wind* (1992) and *Little Buddha* (1993). He has also written novels such as *Nog* (1969) and *Drop Edge of Yonder* (2008), and the travel memoir *Hard Travel to Sacred Places* (1995). He is married to photographer Lynn Davis.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Two-Lane Blacktop* (1971), Fi1m 81, as Hot Rod Driver — [page](https://film.one/film/two-lane-blacktop.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

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

- *Glass: The Perfect American* (2013), Writer
- *100 Centre Street* (2001), series, Writer
- *Little Buddha* (1993), Screenplay
- *Wind* (1992), Screenplay
- *Shadow of the Wolf* (1992), Screenplay
- *Voyager* (1991), Screenplay
- *Candy Mountain* (1988), Director, Writer
- *Walker* (1987), as Morgan · Writer
- *America* (1986), as George, the Hit Man
- *Energy and How to Get It* (1981), Writer
- *Project Tesla* (1980), Director
- *Keep Busy* (1975), Writer
- *Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid* (1973), as Tom O'Folliard · Screenplay
- *Glen and Randa* (1971), Screenplay
- *Two-Lane Blacktop* (1971), as Hot Rod Driver · Screenplay — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/two-lane-blacktop.md)

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