(He also had an uncredited role in “The Winds of War” as the Archbishop of Siena.)īoth minis, which aired in 19-89, respectively, drew multiple Emmy nominations and won several, with “War and Remembrance” nabbing best miniseries. Wouk penned the adapted teleplays himself. These expansive works, which followed one character, Navy Commander Victor “Pug” Henry, through seemingly every important moment in WWII, were adapted into the highly successful ABC miniseries of the same name. Wouk relied upon his wartime experiences not only for “The Caine Mutiny,” but for his later novels “The Winds of War” (1971) and “War and Remembrance” (1978). That pic, directed by Edward Dmytryk and also starring Jose Ferrer, Van Johnson and Fred MacMurray, drew seven Oscar nominations, including those for best picture and screenplay for Stanley Roberts. “The Caine Mutiny,” a 1951 bestseller that won Wouk the Pulitzer Prize, was memorably adapted into the 1954 film starring Humphrey Bogart, who played the paranoid, mentally unstable captain of a Navy minesweeper whose actions drive his subordinates to mutiny. Herman Wouk, the author of novels adapted to the big and small screen, including “ The Caine Mutiny,” “Marjorie Morningstar,” “ The Winds of War” and “War and Remembrance,” has died.
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