Karl Alexander (August 23, 1938 – March 30, 2015)[1][2] was an American fiction writer.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, he was the son and nephew of screenwriters—his father, William Tunberg, wrote the screenplay for Old Yeller, and his uncle, Karl Tunberg, wrote the screenplay for Ben-Hur—and worked on a number of films himself.
It was adapted as a successful 1979 film of the same title, as a musical in 2010,[4] and as a television series to premiere in the fall of 2016.
Alexander died on March 30, 2015, in West Los Angeles.
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