Christopher Gore was born on 10th August 1944 in Fort Lauderdale Florida. After graduating from Northwestern University Christopher began writing screenplays, musicals and songs.
Christopher has been described by his brother Rick as a larger than life character.
Aged 36 he wrote the Screenplay for the 1980 Movie "Fame" which gave him an Academy awards Nomination for Best Screenplay. He stated that he got the idea after watching "A Chorus Line" where one of the Characters mentions going to the School of the Performing Arts. Although David De Silva states he was the one that had the concept for "Fame". Then when Christopher moved to New York in the late 70s David helped him find an agent and then took his ideas for the movie to Christopher and they developed the concept together.
"Fame" was Christopher's first screenplay.
At the end of 1980 MGM approached Christopher to write the script for the pilot episode of the Fame TV Series, which he did by redrafting the part of the movie script. His contract for writing the screen play gave him a Consulting Producer Credit and Royalty Cheque for each episode although he never actually had any further input into the TV series.
After the success of "Fame" Christopher was eager to resume his Broadway Theatre career and began working on songs for a new musical. However, his health soon started to deteriorate and the musical was never finished.
Christopher died on 18th May 1988, aged 43 in Santa Monica of Aids.
Footage of Christopher Gore
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I didn't know he died so young. How sad.
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