Biography

Syd Field was born on December 19, 1935 in Hollywood, California, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Men in Crisis (1964), Screenplay Series with Syd Field (2007) and When a Man Loves a Woman (1994). He was married to Aviva. He died on November 17, 2013 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Syd Field taught Screenwriting at USC Film school during the 1980s. Some of his former students include Trey Callaway, Todd Slavkin, Elisa Bell, David Goyer, John Singleton and Laura Vineyard.

He wrote eight best-selling books on screenwriting.

He studied English literature at Berkeley, before moving into television. He became a special script consultant for several Hollywood studios.

He received his B.A. in English Literature at University of California, Berkeley in 1960.

[re watching films to spot plot points] It's an excellent exercise. The more you do it, the easier it gets. Pretty soon it will be ingrained in your consciousness; you'll grasp the essential nature of the relationship between structure and story.