Fred Haines
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Fred Haines (February 27, 1936 – May 4, 2008) was an American screenwriter and film producer.
Early life
Haines was born in Los Angeles in 1936 and later moved to Tucson, Arizona, with his family. He joined the United States Navy in 1953 and served until 1956, when he was awarded an honorable discharge. While in the Navy, he met Dede Wright, the daughter of his commanding Admiral, but they divorced in 1961 after having two children.
Later life
Haines and McCormack returned to Los Angeles in 1984 due to money woes. Haines' marriage ended in 2000, and Haines lived next door to his son Sean in Venice Beach until he died of lung cancer complications on May 4, 2008.
Film career
Haines studied literature at Columbia University and the University of Arizona before graduating from the University of California, Berkeley. He worked at KPFA, where he met film director Joseph Strick through film critic Pauline Kael. Strick was enthralled by Haines' intellectual curiosity and film knowledge and offered him a job in Columbia Pictures' writing department.
Strick obtained the film rights to the James Joyce novel Ulysses, as well as Haines as co-writer and associate producer for the film, with Strick directing. Ulysses debuted in 1967 and was recognized for its faithfulness to Joyce's book. Haines met Frances McCormack, his second wife, while filming Ulysses in Ireland.
Haines continued to collaborate with Strick, although he requested that his name be removed from the credits for Strick's 1970 version of Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer due to a rift between the two companies. Haines spent the early 1970s attempting to find funds for his planned adaptation of Hermann Hesse's novel Steppenwolf. In 1974, a film version was released, with Haines directing the film himself.
Haines and his wife migrated to Ireland to be closer to her family and the Irish health care system after McCormack fell ill with multiple sclerosis. The couple lived in a rented apartment in writer Constantine Fitzgibbon's house on Dublin's outskirts, and Haines worked as a script editor for RTÉ and assisted with the running of Stage One, a fringe theatre company with fellow American expatriate writer Douglas Kennedy.