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Known for:	Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Right Stuff, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Birthday:	23 October 1936, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Lives in his adopted home city of San Francisco Father of Peter Kaufman Runs his production company Walrus & Associates out of San Francisco with his family. He receives a story credit for Raiders of the Lost Ark, with good reason--while George Lucas came up with the character of Indiana Jones, he didn't have a story in which to put him. It was Kaufman's idea for Indy to pursue the Ark of the Covenant. Biography in John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985," pp. 492-495. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988. The Steps of the Rome restaurant in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood has a section devoted to Kaufman. There are various photos depicting the filmmaker, of which he is a frequent visitor. Kaufman is a San Francisco resident whose office is located in the same area. Met Anaïs Nin in 1962. Later, in 1990, he made a movie called Henry & June about her, her affairs with Henry Miller, and his wife June. He spent 8 months in the mid-1970s working on a script for a Star Trek movie. At this same time, his friend George Lucas was making the first Star Wars film. Due to the poor buzz surrounding Star Wars prior to its release, Paramount decided to pull the plug on Kaufman's Star Trek project, with one of the studio executives saying "there's no future in science fiction." His script, which centered on the character of Spock, was abandoned and Paramount went in another direction when they resumed production on the first Star Trek film following the success of Star Wars.

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