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{{for|the pioneer aviator|Bill Lancaster (aviator)}}
{{short description|American screenwriter}}
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Lancaster, a [[look-alike]] for his famous father at the time, guest-starred in an episode of the television series ''[[The Big Valley]]'' in 1967. In 1973, Lancaster played the role of "King", the boyfriend of a murdered college coed in ''[[The Midnight Man (1974 film)|The Midnight Man]]'', a mystery film starring and co-directed by his father, released in 1974.
Lancaster's best-known work is his adapted screenplay for [[John Carpenter]]'s ''[[The Thing (1982 film)|The Thing]]''.<ref name="canby">{{cite news| last=Canby| first=Vincent| title=''The Thing'', Horror and Science Fiction| newspaper=[[The New York Times]]| date=June 25, 1982| url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9801E6DA103BF936A15755C0A964948260| access-date=March 4, 2009
In 1982, he worked on a first-draft script of an adaptation of [[Stephen King]]'s novel ''[[Firestarter (novel)|Firestarter]]'' for Carpenter to direct. Months later of the same year, Carpenter hired Bill Phillips to work on a rewrite of Lancaster's draft. When ''The Thing'' did not match the studio's financial expectations, Universal replaced Carpenter with [[Mark L. Lester]] and both drafts were scrapped in favor of [[Stanley Mann]]'s draft.<ref>{{cite news| newspaper=[[LA Weekly]]| url=https://www.laweekly.com/film/the-men-who-were-the-thing-look-back-on-a-modern-horror-classic-7481937| title=The Men Who Were The Thing Look Back on a Modern Horror Classic| author1=Abrams, Simon| author2=Seitz, Matt Zoller| date=October 13, 2016}}</ref>
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==Personal life==
Lancaster was married to Kippie Kovacs, daughter of the comedian [[Ernie Kovacs]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bJEhAAAAIBAJ&pg=6692,8839233&dq=ernie+kovacs&hl=en| title=People in the News – Took No Chances| date=
==Death==
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