New York  - Budd Schulberg, the novelist and screenwriter who won an Oscar for the 1954 film On the Waterfront, has died at the age of 95.

Schulberg died Wednesday at his home on Long Island in the US state of New York, his wife, Betsy, told The New York Times.

The New York native and son of a film producer wrote such prize-winning novels as What Makes Sammy Run and The Harder They Fall in the 1940s, but he was best known for penning the screenplay for On the Waterfront, which starred Marlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint and won a total of eight Oscars.

Three years, later, Schulberg worked again with director Elia Kazan on the film A Face in the Crowd.

He continued to write screenplays into his later years, and three years ago, director Spike Lee said he would film a movie about the legendary 1938 boxing match between Max Schmeling and Joe Louis from Schulberg's script. (dpa)