Biography
Wendell Mayes was an American screenwriter whose career spanned from the mid-1950s until the early 1990s. He began as an actor before turning to writing for television and film. His first major screen credit was a co-writing role on The Spirit of St. Louis (1957), after which he worked extensively with director Otto Preminger.
Mayes received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay and won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for his screenplay for Anatomy of a Murder (1959). Other notable credits include Advise & Consent (1962), In Harm's Way (1965), The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and Death Wish (1974). He died of cancer on 28 March 1992 in Santa Monica, California.
