Alan Trustman (born December 16, 1930) is an American lawyer, screenwriter, pari-mutuel operator and currency trader.
After college, he was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar and went to work at the Boston law firm Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP where his father, Benjamin A Trustman, was also a partner.
He developed shopping centers and bought and sold businesses in competition with the major New York law firms.
[1] Trustman had written the script for Sean Connery but producer Walter Mirisch and director Norman Jewison cast Steve McQueen, who had been pursuing the role, the first in which he plays against his usual blue-collar man of action persona.
[1][failed verification] The success of The Thomas Crown Affair was followed by another McQueen movie, Bullitt, which Trustman wrote in 20 hours.
Roger Corman was going to make a film based on a Trustman script called Our Man Ho in 1999, but it was never made.
"Alan has made his name with intelligent, subtly ironic dialogues and with the complexity of his scripts", said Georges Kern, IWC Schaffhausen’s CEO, introducing Trustman.
[12] In 1974, Trustman became an officer, executive committee member and director of World Jai-Alai, which became in four years a highly successful public company operating pari-mutuel facilities in Miami, Tampa, Ft. Pierce and Ocala, Florida, and Hartford, Connecticut.