By
Joal Ryan
, Hollywood.com Staff
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Tuesday, May 30, 2000
HOLLYWOOD - The screenwriter who co-penned the Alfred Hitchcock classic "Vertigo" has died. Samuel A. Taylor was 87. A former journalist with the New Yorker, Taylor segued into radio, TV and, later, film. Other screen credits included 1969's "Topaz" (also for Hitchcock).
Additionally, Taylor penned the 1953 play "Sabrina Fair," which was converted into the 1954 Audrey Hepburn film, "Sabrina," which was remade into the 1995 Harrison Ford film, also name of "Sabrina." Taylor shared a screenwriting credit on the original film version.
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