Introduction
Gary DeVore (September 17, 1941 – June 28, 1997) was a Hollywood screenwriter best known for Raw Deal and for his bizarre death in 1997.
Career
Devore began his writing career in the late 1960s on shows like Chuck Barris's The Newlywed Game, The Steve Allen Show, and Tempo.
Screenwriter credits
- The Dogs of War (with George Malko) (1980)
- Backroads (1981)
- Heart of Steel (TV) (1983)
- Running Scared (with Jimmy Huston) (1986)
- Raw Deal (with Norman Wexler) (1986)
- Traxx (also producer) (1988)
- CBS Summer Playhouse (The Heat) (with David Debin) (TV) (1988)
- Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991) (uncredited)
- Passenger 57 (uncredited) (1992)
- Pentathlon (with William Stadiem and Gary T. McDonald) (1994)
- Time Cop (uncredited) (1994)
- Sudden Death (uncredited) (1995)
- The Relic (uncredited) (1997)
- ^ FRIENDLY, DAVID T. (17 July 1986). "Production Chief Buys--and Sells--scripts" – via LA Times.
Personal life and death
DeVore married the singer Maria Cole (1969–1978) and the actresses Sandie Newton (1981–1985), Claudia Christian (1988–1992), and Wendy Devore (1996–1997).
DeVore disappeared in June 1997, prompting an extensive search and media speculation. A year later, his car was discovered submerged in the California Aqueduct in Palmdale, California.
A 2014 documentary, The Writer with No Hands, suggests that DeVore's death was the result of a US government conspiracy. It also alleges that the hands autopsied with the body were 200 years old and therefore not DeVore's.