Baltimore-born Millard Kaufman, the screenwriter who helped create Mr. Magoo (check out this YouTube short) and published a bawdy novel at age 90, has died.

Kaufman, 92, died Saturday of heart failure, according to a spokeswoman for McSweeney's Publishing, which published "Bowl of Cherries" in 2007, the AP said. In 1949, he wrote the screenplay for the short film "Ragtime Bear," which featured the first appearance of Mr. Magoo, a near-sighted senior voiced by "Gilligan's Island" actor Jim Backus. He was nominated twice for an Oscar — for the story and screenplay of "Take the High Ground" and for the screenplay of "Bad Day at Black Rock."

Born in 1917 in Baltimore, Kaufman graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1939. After college, he worked as a reporter for Newsday and New York's Daily News before joining the Marines and serving in World War II. After the war ended, Kaufman moved to Los Angeles with his wife, Lorraine, and began his screenwriting career.