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Jeffrey David Boam (November 30, 1946 – January 24, 2000) was an American screenwriter and film producer. He is known for writing the screenplays for Lethal Weapon 2 and Lethal Weapon 3, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Innerspace, and The Lost Boys. Boam's films had a cumulative gross of over US $1 billion. He was educated at Sacramento State College and UCLA. Boam died on January 26, 2000 at age 53 of a rare lung disease. Boam was born in Rochester, New York. In high school, Boam was known for his talent as a cartoonist, and for his quiet but riotous sense of humor. One of his early... MORE

Jeffrey David Boam (November 30, 1946 – January 24, 2000) was an American screenwriter and film producer. He is known for writing the screenplays for Lethal Weapon 2 and Lethal Weapon 3, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Innerspace, and The Lost Boys. Boam's films had a cumulative gross of over US $1 billion. He was educated at Sacramento State College and UCLA. Boam died on January 26, 2000 at age 53 of a rare lung disease. Boam was born in Rochester, New York. In high school, Boam was known for his talent as a cartoonist, and for his quiet but riotous sense of humor. One of his early cartoons - turned down by magazines such as Playboy, showed a near-empty movie theater and a Dracula-like character pointing to the seat next to a young college co-ed and asking her, "Is this seat taken?" In the summer of 1968, just after finishing his BA at Sacramento State, Jeffrey briefly served as art director for a planned underground newspaper, Parallax, for which he designed the masthead; the paper never appeared. However, his experimental film submission to the UCLA film school, an impressionistic narrative set to MacArthur Park, got him admission to the school, where he did his LESS