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Robert Roy Pool (born 1953) is an American screenwriter, best known for his authorship of the motion pictures Outbreak (1995), starring Dustin Hoffman, and The Big Town (1987), starring Matt Dillon. He also received a "story by" credit on the motion picture Armageddon (1998), which starred Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton. Pool has collaborated with Laurence Dworet, a former emergency department doctor, on multiple scripts including the unproduced Ultimatum . [1]
| Year | Film | Credit | Notes |
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| 1987 | The Big Town | Screenplay By | Based on the novel "The Arm" by Clark Howard |
| 1993 | Donato and Daughter | Screenplay By | Based on the novel of the same name by Jack Early |
| 1995 | Outbreak | Written By | Co-Wrote screenplay with Laurence Dworet |
| 1996 | Phone Calls from the Dead | Written By | TV Movie |
| 1998 | Armageddon | Story By | Co-Wrote Story with Jonathan Hensleigh |
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Robert Earl Wise was an American filmmaker. He won the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for his musical films West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (1965). He was also nominated for Best Film Editing for Citizen Kane (1941) and directed and produced The Sand Pebbles (1966), which was nominated for Best Picture.
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