{"id":2429,"date":"2024-09-08T17:05:15","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T17:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/entertainment\/will-jennings-oscar-winning-co-writer-of\/"},"modified":"2024-09-08T17:05:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T17:05:15","slug":"will-jennings-oscar-winning-co-writer-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/entertainment\/will-jennings-oscar-winning-co-writer-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Jennings, Oscar-winning co-writer of"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Will Jennings, an Oscar-winning writer behind mega-hits like “My Heart Will Go On” from the movie “Titanic” and “Tears in Heaven”, died at the age of 80, his talent agency confirmed to CBS News.<\/p>\n

“May his memory be a blessing,” Sam Schwartz with The Gorfaine\/Schwartz Agency, Inc., told CBS News on Sunday.<\/p>\n

No cause of death was announced, although multiple reports say he had been ill for some time.<\/p>\n

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Will Jennings, inductee during 37th Annual Songwriters Hall of Fame Ceremony – Show and Dinner at Marriott Marquis in New York City, New York, United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jennings was born in Kilgore, Texas on June 27, 1944 \u2014 the youngest of three children. Before pursuing a career in Hollywood, he was a professor at Tyler Junior College in Tyler, Texas, and then at Austin State University, before teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire for three years.<\/p>\n