He is best known for the screenplay for Out of Africa which won him an Academy Award, and for Absence of Malice (both films directed by Sydney Pollack).
Absence of Malice | Malice Mizer | Malice in Wonderland: The Dolls Movie | Malice in Wonderland (Paice Ashton Lord album) | ''Malice in Wonderland'' | Evidence of absence |
Four years later, Dillon was again nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as a suicidal teacher in Absence of Malice in 1981, working again with Paul Newman.
Susanna Daniel novel, Stiltsville: a Novel; several episodes of Miami Vice (1984-89) and Sea Hunt (1958-61); the film Around the World Under the Sea (1966), the made-for-TV adventure-pilot, The Fantastic Seven (1979), Absence of Malice (1981), and the 2003 film Bad Boys II.