Hollywood screen play writer, Robert
Garland, best known for his stellar work in legendary hits like ‘The
Electric Horseman’ and ‘No Way Out’ died on Saturday at the age of 83 in
Baltimore following the complications of dementia, reported The Hollywood reporter.

Garland who hailed from
Brooklyn, started his career in television as a talent coordinator for The
Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in 1969

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He then gradually got promoted
to writer level and helped Carson’s in preparing nightly monologues.

Early in his entertainment
writing career, Robert wrote for famous sitcoms like That Girl and Sanford and
Son, owing to which he got his humongous break to pen down for the big screen
hits.

Throughout the early 1970s,
Garland wrote scripts for That Girl; The Bill Cosby Show; Love, American Style;
The Bob Newhart Show;and Sanford and Son.

In 1979, Garland wrote the
screenplay for Jane Fonda and Robert Redford starrer, The Electric Horseman, He
became the writer for Steve Martin’s comedy TV show Steve Martin: Comedy Is Not
Pretty, a year after that.

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Member of the Writers Guild
of America, Garland, who was also credited as a producer on the film No Way Out,
wrote it in 1987 and is known to be the biggest hit of his career so far.

Robert retired from his
career as screenwriter in the mid-1990s and lived in places like Paris, the Liguria region of Italy and Key West,
Florida.