Jeffrey Boam

Jeffrey Boam (November 30, 1946 – January 24, 2000) was an American screenwriter and film producer. Educated at Sacramento State College and UCLA, he became one of Hollywood's most successful and highest paid writers during the 1980s and 1990s, working with such stars as Mel Gibson, Harrison Ford, Billy Zane and Sean Connery and filmmakers Richard Donner, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. In high school, Jeffrey was known for his talent as a car... more

Jeffrey Boam (November 30, 1946 – January 24, 2000) was an American screenwriter and film producer. Educated at Sacramento State College and UCLA, he became one of Hollywood's most successful and highest paid writers during the 1980s and 1990s, working with such stars as Mel Gibson, Harrison Ford, Billy Zane and Sean Connery and filmmakers Richard Donner, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. In high school, Jeffrey was known for his talent as a cartoonist, and for his quiet but riotous sense of humor. One of his early cartoons - turned down by magazines such as Playboy, showed a near-empty movie theater and a Dracula-like character pointing to the seat next to a young college co-ed and asking her, "Is this seat taken?" In the summer of 1968, just after finishing his BA at Sacramento State, Jeffrey briefly served as art director for a planned underground newspaper, Parallax, for which he designed the masthead; the paper never appeared. However, his experimental film submission to the... less