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|birth_place = [[Los Angeles, California]], [[United States]]
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|occupation = Screenwriter, author, educator
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'''Jon Christopher "Chris" Conkling''' (born March 31, 1949) was a co-author of the screenplay for the animated version of [[The Lord of the Rings (1978 film)|Lord of the Rings]], directed by Ralph Bakshi and produced by Saul Zaentz. He has also published articles in ''[[BYU Studies]]'', the ''[[Journal of Book of Mormon Studies]]'' and the ''[[Ensign (LDS magazine)|Ensign]]'', and wrote the 1979 book ''A Joseph Smith Chronology'' and an award-winning article on Melville's "Bartleby The Scrivener."
'''Jon Christopher Conkling''' (born March 31, 1949) is an American writer. He is best known as the co-writer of the screenplay for the animated version of ''[[The Lord of the Rings (1978 film)|Lord of the Rings]]'', directed by [[Ralph Bakshi]] and produced by [[Saul Zaentz]]. He has also published articles in ''[[BYU Studies]]'', the ''[[Journal of Book of Mormon Studies]]'' and the ''[[Ensign (LDS magazine)|Ensign]]'', and wrote the 1979 book ''A Joseph Smith Chronology'' and an award-winning article on Melville's "Bartleby The Scrivener."

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Conkling has taught a variety of courses at the [[American Jewish University]] in [[Bel-Air, California]]. Prior to this he worked in advertising and public relations for several oil companies and Pool/Sarraille Advertising of Beverly Hills. He also wrote a paper entitled "The Dark Ages: The L.D.S. Church and Japan, 1924-1948" which is held by the Church History Archives and has been used as a source for published work by [[R. Lanier Britsch]].<ref>R. Lanier Britsch, [https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1992/10/the-blossoming-of-the-church-in-japan "The Blossoming of the Church in Japan"], ''[[Ensign (LDS magazine)|Ensign]]'', October 1992.</ref>

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Conkling is a Latter-day Saint.


==Education==
Conkling studied at the [[University of California, Los Angeles]], [[Dartmouth College]], [[Brigham Young University]].[[California State University, Dominguez Hills]], and [[California State University, Northridge]] from which he received his teaching credentials.
Conkling studied at the [[University of California, Los Angeles]], [[Dartmouth College]], [[Brigham Young University]].[[California State University, Dominguez Hills]], and [[California State University, Northridge]] from which he received his teaching credentials.


==Career==
He wrote six complete scripts in an attempt to find the right approach for Bakshi's version of ''Lord of the Rings''—one covered only a third of the epic, one tried to fit the entire saga into a single film, one tried to cut it in half; one version even focused on a re-telling by Pippin and Merry. There was a good deal of experimentation as to how to approach the enormous saga. Eventually, popular science fiction novelist, [[Peter S. Beagle]], was called in to do some revisions, although Conkling still retained first credit on the final version. ''Lord of the Rings'' was nominated for a [[Hugo Award]].
He wrote six complete scripts in an attempt to find the right approach for Bakshi's version of ''Lord of the Rings''—one covered only a third of the epic, one tried to fit the entire saga into a single film, one tried to cut it in half; one version even focused on a re-telling by Pippin and Merry.<ref name="Plesset 2002">{{Cite magazine |last=Plesset |first=Ross |title=The Lord of the Rings: The Animated Films |url=https://archive.org/stream/CinefantastiqueVol34No1Feb2002/Cinefantastique%20Vol%2034%20No%201%20%28Feb%202002%29#page/n51/mode/2up |date=February 2002 |volume=34 |pages=52–53 |journal=[[Cinefantastique]] |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref><ref name="Bogstad 2011">{{Cite book |editor1-last=Bogstad |editor1-first=Janice M. |editor2-last=Kaveny |editor2-first=Philip E. |last=Rateliff |first=John D. |author-link=John D. Rateliff |chapter=Two Kinds of Absence: Elision and Exclusion in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings |title=Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy |publisher=[[McFarland Publishing|McFarland]] |year=2011 |isbn=978-0786484737 |pages=54–70}}</ref> There was a good deal of experimentation as to how to approach the enormous saga.<ref name="Croft">{{cite web |last=Croft |first=Janet Brennan |author-link=Janet Brennan Croft |title=Three Rings for Hollywood: Scripts for The Lord of the Rings by Zimmerman, Boorman, and Beagle |url=http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/C/Janet.B.Croft-1/three_rings_for_hollywood.htm |date=April 2004 |publisher=[[University of Oklahoma]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060903220627/http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/C/Janet.B.Croft-1/three_rings_for_hollywood.htm |archive-date=September 3, 2006 |access-date=January 9, 2007}}</ref> Eventually, popular science fiction novelist, [[Peter S. Beagle]], was called in to do some revisions, although Conkling still retained first credit on the final version. ''Lord of the Rings'' was nominated for a [[Hugo Award]].


He was also a story consultant for the 1977 [[BYU Film Studio]] film ''[[The Mailbox (film)|The Mailbox]]'' and wrote ''The Emmitt Smith Story'' for BYU. He also wrote several management videos which appeared on PBS, and was also a writer for ABC's television series ''[[The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries|The Hardy Boys]]''.<ref>{{cite web | title=Latter-day Saint Screenwriters | work=LDS Film | url=http://www.ldsfilm.com/lds_sw.html | accessdate=2009-03-25}}</ref>
He was also a story consultant for the 1977 [[BYU Film Studio]] film ''[[The Mailbox (film)|The Mailbox]]'' and wrote ''The Emmitt Smith Story'' for BYU. He also wrote several management videos which appeared on PBS, and was also a writer for ABC's television series ''[[The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries|The Hardy Boys]]''.<ref>{{cite web | title=Latter-day Saint Screenwriters | work=LDS Film | url=http://www.ldsfilm.com/lds_sw.html | accessdate=2009-03-25}}</ref>


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Conkling has taught a variety of courses at the [[American Jewish University]] in [[Bel-Air, California]]. Prior to this he worked in advertising and public relations for several oil companies and Pool/Sarraille Advertising of Beverly Hills. He also wrote a paper entitled "The Dark Ages: The L.D.S. Church and Japan, 1924-1948" which is held by the Church History Archives and has been used as a source for published work by [[R. Lanier Britsch]].<ref>R. Lanier Britsch, [https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1992/10/the-blossoming-of-the-church-in-japan "The Blossoming of the Church in Japan"], ''[[Ensign (LDS magazine)|Ensign]]'', October 1992.</ref>
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Conkling and his wife Robin are the parents of six children. His mother was in the singing quartet The King Sisters, who had a weekly ABC television musical in the mid-sixties, called The King Family. His father, James Conkling, was a record executive, who became Capitol Record's first vice president, then president of Columbia Records, and founder and first president of Warner Bros. Records. He also helped to found the Grammy Awards where he became the Grammy's first national chairman.


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Conkling's entire family is rather accomplished. One cousin was musical director for the Sonny and Cher show, another the voice of Leonardo on "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" for a decade, another was the female lead on the long-running TV program "My Three Sons" and yet another several created the signingtimes sign language videos. One sister, Jamie Miller, has published a half dozen books and another is married to a top Yankee Scout. One Uncle, big band leader and guitar virtuoso Alvino Rey, was the first inductee into the steel guitar hall of fame, another, Bob Clarke, produced and starred in such "B" monster movies as "The Hideous Sun Demon" and "Man from the Planet X," another, Bill Burch, was a Universal Studio executive and longtime protegee of Gene Autry. Among his second cousins is the wife of astronaut Buzz Aldrin, and the founders of the alternative rock band "The Arcade Fire."
At AJU Chris Conkling created courses in literature of utopia and literature of evil, taught ancient Greek and Roman literature, and was faculty advisor for several years on the student newspaper. He currently works as a 12th grade English teacher and creative writing teacher at [[Sylmar High School]]'s Math/Science Magnet, in [[Sylmar, Los Angeles, California|Sylmar, Ca]].<ref>[http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Sylmar_Magnet_HS/ Lausd.k12.ca.us]</ref>
At AJU Chris Conkling created courses in literature of utopia and literature of evil, taught ancient Greek and Roman literature, and was faculty advisor for several years on the student newspaper. He currently works as a 12th grade English teacher and creative writing teacher at [[Sylmar High School]]'s Math/Science Magnet, in [[Sylmar, Los Angeles, California|Sylmar, Ca]].<ref>[http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Sylmar_Magnet_HS/ Lausd.k12.ca.us]</ref>

==Personal life==
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Conkling is a Latter-day Saint.

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Conkling and his wife Robin are the parents of six children. His mother was in the singing quartet The King Sisters, who had a weekly ABC television musical in the mid-sixties, called The King Family. His father, James Conkling, was a record executive, who became Capitol Record's first vice president, then president of Columbia Records, and founder and first president of Warner Bros. Records. He also helped to found the Grammy Awards where he became the Grammy's first national chairman.

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Conkling's entire family is rather accomplished. One cousin was musical director for the Sonny and Cher show, another the voice of Leonardo on "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" for a decade, another was the female lead on the long-running TV program "My Three Sons" and yet another several created the "Signing Times" sign language videos. One sister, Jamie Miller, has published a half dozen books and another is married to a top Yankee Scout. One Uncle, big band leader and guitar virtuoso Alvino Rey, was the first inductee into the steel guitar hall of fame, another, Bob Clarke, produced and starred in such "B" monster movies as "The Hideous Sun Demon" and "Man from the Planet X," another, Bill Burch, was a Universal Studio executive and longtime protegee of Gene Autry. Among his second cousins is the wife of astronaut Buzz Aldrin, and the founders of the alternative rock band "The Arcade Fire."


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*[http://farms.byu.edu/authors/?authorID=548 Maxwell Institute bio]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081010035210/http://farms.byu.edu/authors/?authorID=548 Maxwell Institute bio]
*[http://www.ldsbooklovers.com/bookinfo.asp?bid=190&pid= LDS booklovers listing]
*[http://www.ldsbooklovers.com/bookinfo.asp?bid=190&pid= LDS booklovers listing]
*[http://www.ldsfilm.com/bio/bioC3.html Lds film bio]
*[http://www.ldsfilm.com/bio/bioC3.html Lds film bio]
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Latest revision as of 19:18, 20 December 2023

Chris Conkling
Born
Jon Christopher Conkling

(1949-03-31) March 31, 1949 (age 75)
Los Angeles, California, United States
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Screenwriter, author, educator
SpouseRobin Conkling
Children6

Jon Christopher Conkling (born March 31, 1949) is an American writer. He is best known as the co-writer of the screenplay for the animated version of Lord of the Rings, directed by Ralph Bakshi and produced by Saul Zaentz. He has also published articles in BYU Studies, the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies and the Ensign, and wrote the 1979 book A Joseph Smith Chronology and an award-winning article on Melville's "Bartleby The Scrivener."

Education[edit]

Conkling studied at the University of California, Los Angeles, Dartmouth College, Brigham Young University.California State University, Dominguez Hills, and California State University, Northridge from which he received his teaching credentials.

Career[edit]

He wrote six complete scripts in an attempt to find the right approach for Bakshi's version of Lord of the Rings—one covered only a third of the epic, one tried to fit the entire saga into a single film, one tried to cut it in half; one version even focused on a re-telling by Pippin and Merry.[1][2] There was a good deal of experimentation as to how to approach the enormous saga.[3] Eventually, popular science fiction novelist, Peter S. Beagle, was called in to do some revisions, although Conkling still retained first credit on the final version. Lord of the Rings was nominated for a Hugo Award.

He was also a story consultant for the 1977 BYU Film Studio film The Mailbox and wrote The Emmitt Smith Story for BYU. He also wrote several management videos which appeared on PBS, and was also a writer for ABC's television series The Hardy Boys.[4]

Conkling has taught a variety of courses at the American Jewish University in Bel-Air, California. Prior to this he worked in advertising and public relations for several oil companies and Pool/Sarraille Advertising of Beverly Hills. He also wrote a paper entitled "The Dark Ages: The L.D.S. Church and Japan, 1924-1948" which is held by the Church History Archives and has been used as a source for published work by R. Lanier Britsch.[5]

At AJU Chris Conkling created courses in literature of utopia and literature of evil, taught ancient Greek and Roman literature, and was faculty advisor for several years on the student newspaper. He currently works as a 12th grade English teacher and creative writing teacher at Sylmar High School's Math/Science Magnet, in Sylmar, Ca.[6]

Personal life[edit]

Conkling is a Latter-day Saint.

Conkling and his wife Robin are the parents of six children. His mother was in the singing quartet The King Sisters, who had a weekly ABC television musical in the mid-sixties, called The King Family. His father, James Conkling, was a record executive, who became Capitol Record's first vice president, then president of Columbia Records, and founder and first president of Warner Bros. Records. He also helped to found the Grammy Awards where he became the Grammy's first national chairman.

Conkling's entire family is rather accomplished. One cousin was musical director for the Sonny and Cher show, another the voice of Leonardo on "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" for a decade, another was the female lead on the long-running TV program "My Three Sons" and yet another several created the "Signing Times" sign language videos. One sister, Jamie Miller, has published a half dozen books and another is married to a top Yankee Scout. One Uncle, big band leader and guitar virtuoso Alvino Rey, was the first inductee into the steel guitar hall of fame, another, Bob Clarke, produced and starred in such "B" monster movies as "The Hideous Sun Demon" and "Man from the Planet X," another, Bill Burch, was a Universal Studio executive and longtime protegee of Gene Autry. Among his second cousins is the wife of astronaut Buzz Aldrin, and the founders of the alternative rock band "The Arcade Fire."

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Plesset, Ross (February 2002). "The Lord of the Rings: The Animated Films". Cinefantastique. Vol. 34. pp. 52–53 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ Rateliff, John D. (2011). "Two Kinds of Absence: Elision and Exclusion in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings". In Bogstad, Janice M.; Kaveny, Philip E. (eds.). Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy. McFarland. pp. 54–70. ISBN 978-0786484737.
  3. ^ Croft, Janet Brennan (April 2004). "Three Rings for Hollywood: Scripts for The Lord of the Rings by Zimmerman, Boorman, and Beagle". University of Oklahoma. Archived from the original on September 3, 2006. Retrieved January 9, 2007.
  4. ^ "Latter-day Saint Screenwriters". LDS Film. Retrieved 2009-03-25.
  5. ^ R. Lanier Britsch, "The Blossoming of the Church in Japan", Ensign, October 1992.
  6. ^ Lausd.k12.ca.us

External links[edit]

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