Casey Robinson

Kenneth Casey Robinson (born October 17, 1903 in Logan , Utah , † December 6, 1979 in Sydney , New South Wales , Australia ) was an American screenwriter , film producer and film director who won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay was nominated and received the 1968 Writers Guild of America Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Life

After attending school, Robinson studied at Cornell University , which he graduated in 1924. He then worked as a teacher for English at a high school in Brigham City and for a short time as a reporter for the daily newspaper New York World .

He began his career in the Hollywood film industry in 1927 with a weekly salary of 100 US dollars as the author of subtitles for silent films such as the war film Die Welt in Flammen (1927) by Alfred Santell with Richard Barthelmess . At the beginning of the 1930s he also worked as a film director and directed six short films between 1931 and 1932 as well as the western Renegades of the West (1932) with Tom Keene , Roscoe Ates and Betty Furness in the leading roles. In 1933 he signed a full-time scriptwriting contract with Paramount Pictures and worked there until he moved to Warner Bros. in 1935 after signing a ten-year contract . Over the course of his career, he wrote the scripts and templates for around sixty films and television series .

In the following years he wrote scripts for other films with Errol Flynn and Bette Davis such as Victims of a Great Love (1939) and Journey from the Past (1942). The scenes in Casablanca (1942) by Michael Curtiz , in which Ilsa ( Ingrid Bergman ) and Rick ( Humphrey Bogart ) meet alone in the café, are mostly by Casey Robinson, who is not mentioned in the opening credits ( "uncredited" ). After he left Warner Bros. after the end of his contract in 1945, he initially worked for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , before working as a screenwriter and at times as a film producer for 20th Century Fox between 1949 and 1954 .

Robinson, who was married to the ballerina and film actress Tamara Toumanova from 1944 to 1954 , received the Writers Guild of America Prize in 1968 for his life's work . The film critic Richard Corliss described Robinson as “the master of the art - and the craft - of adaptation ” ('the master of the art - or craft - of adaptation').

personal data
SURNAME	Robinson, Casey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Robinson, Kenneth Casey (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American screenwriter, film director and producer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 17, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Logan , Utah
DATE OF DEATH	6th December 1979
Place of death	Sydney , New South Wales , Australia