Jeffrey Boam

Jeffrey David Boam was an American screenwriter and film producer, born in Rochester, New York, who died of heart failure on January 26, 2000, at age 53. He is known for writing the screenplays for The Dead Zone, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Innerspace, The Lost Boys, and Lethal Weapon 2 and 3, and his films had a cumulative gross of over US$1 billion. He grew up in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, and his family moved to Sacramento, California, when he was 11. He earned a B.A. in art at Sacramento State College in 1969 and a Master of Fine Arts at the UCLA film school in 1973, where he turned from directing to screenwriting and was mentored by the writing teacher William Froug. He then worked in film distribution at Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox while writing scripts. In television he co-created The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. with Carlton Cuse in 1993 and served as its executive producer.