Arnold Perl

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Arnold E. Perl (born April 14, 1914 in New York City , United States , † December 11, 1971 there ) was an American playwright, screenwriter and director.

Live and act

Perl had briefly studied at Cornell University in Ithaca , New York State , before turning to writing. For the first time made Perl mid-1950s talked about when he three to work the 1916 deceased Aleichem Sholom -based one-act play ( A Tale of rogue Bontche Silence and The High School he) under the title The World of Sholom Aleichem published and which dealt with the life of Russian Jews, published. This Perl work also features the character Tevye, the milkman, who was finally memorialized in 1964 with the musical Anatevka . Perl's play premiered at Carnegie Hall Playhouse in January 1957 and received good reviews (in the New York Times ). Tevye's story is performed on Broadway under the title Fiddler on the Roof with the suffix “Sholem Aleichem's stories used by special permission of Arnold Perl” until modern times . Alejchems and his template also served as a blueprint for the German WDR television game Tevya and his daughters in 1962 . Another German television production, The High School (1964, with the very young Marius Müller-Westernhagen ), referred to Alejchem and Perl.

Arnold Perl found his way to television early on. From 1949 to 1951 he wrote a number of screenplays for the Prockter Television series The Big Story before Perl was temporarily blacklisted . He was only allowed to return to the industry in 1959, and Arnold Perl now wrote for television and cinema, for feature films and documentaries. In 1962 he was also involved in an Italian sandal film ( The Gold of the Caesars ), but his contributions to New York series that led to the world of newspaper makers ( Deadline ) and the police ( Merciless City ) brought him popularity . In 1967 he created Hot Traces ( NYPD ), another police series that was very popular at the time.

In the last phase of his life, Perl promoted the new self-image of black people in the USA (so-called "Black Pride") with his work: He wrote the screenplay for When night falls in Manhattan by the colored actor and director Ossie Davis (with the three black people at the time icons Godfrey Cambridge , Raymond St. Jacques and Calvin Lockhart in the lead roles) and turned in his death in 1971 a highly acclaimed documentary about the same radical black leader Malcolm X . Arnold Perl did not live to see the success of this film, which was nominated for an Oscar for best full-length documentary in 1973 and which was to become the basis for Spike Lee's film Malcolm X with Denzel Washington in the title role in 1991 . Perl, who had received numerous award nominations and received the WGA Award for East Side / West Side in 1965 , died at the age of 57 in his Manhattan apartment .

Filmography

  • 1949–51: The Big Story (TV series, screenplay)
  • 1959: Jazz on a Summer's Day (feature documentary, screenplay)
  • 1959: The World of Sholem Aleichem (TV film, screenplay)
  • 1959–61: Deadline (TV series, screenplay and production)
  • 1962: The Gold of the Caesars ( Oro per i Cesari ) (feature film, co-script)
  • 1963: Naked City ( The Naked City ) (TV series, writer)
  • 1963–64: East Side / West Side (TV series, screenplay, production)
  • 1964: The higher school (German TV film, screenplay)
  • 1969: When Night falls in Manhattan ( Cotton Comes to Harlem ) (feature film, co-script)
  • 1970: The Sheriff (TV movie, screenplay)
  • 1971: Malcolm X (documentary, director, screenplay, production manager)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnold Perl on Internet Broadway Database
  2. ↑ 18 Things You Never Knew About 'Malcolm X , point 2

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personal data
SURNAME Perl, Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perl, Arnold E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American playwright, screenwriter, film director, and documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , United States
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1971
Place of death New York City , United States