Biography
Tom Benedek is an American screenwriter. He wrote the screenplay for the 1985 science fiction comedy-drama Cocoon, directed by Ron Howard from a story by David Saperstein.
He is also credited as writer or co-writer on The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996) and Zeus & Roxanne (1997). Benedek has completed more than thirty-five writing assignments for major studios and has collaborated with directors including Robert Zemeckis, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, Sydney Pollack, Richard Rush and Harold Ramis.
He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1971, the first graduate of its Bachelor’s Degree with Individual Concentration programme in film, and is a graduate of the Director’s Program at the American Film Institute. Benedek has taught screenwriting at the University of Southern California, the University of Michigan and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
