Edwin J. Burke

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Edwin J. Burke (born August 30, 1889 in Albany , New York , † September 26, 1944 in New York City ) was an American writer , actor , director and screenwriter who adapted the Oscar for best at the 1932 Academy Awards Won screenplay for Bad Girl .

Life

After attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts , he began his acting career in 1910 with a theater company in New York City, which mainly staged plays by William Shakespeare . He later became director of a traveling theater before it had to file for bankruptcy after the actors' strike in 1919 . He then wrote vaudeville performances and as such wrote over 250 one-act plays and skits over the course of ten years .

After working as a writer on Plastered in Paris , a silent film with sound effects, by Benjamin Stoloff , he was one of the first in New York following the success of Paul L. Stein's film This Thing Called Love (1929) based on his play City working playwrights that for the film industry in Hollywood were involved.

In 1932 he received the Oscar for the best adapted screenplay for the script based on the novel by Viña Delmar for the film Bad Girl (1931) directed by Frank Borzage . He then wrote the scripts for some successful films such as Dance Team (1932) by Sidney Lanfield , Bright Eyes (1934) and The Littlest Rebel (1935), each by David Butler with child star Shirley Temple .

He then left Hollywood in 1935, settled in High Bridge , New Jersey , and later became director of the Percy Williams Home for Actors , a retirement home for actors in East Islip , New York. Shortly before his death, however, he worked with Winfield R. Sheehan again on a script for the film Captain Eddie about the most successful American fighter pilot in World War I , Edward Vernon Rickenbacker .

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SURNAME Burke, Edwin J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor, director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Albany , New York
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1944
Place of death New York City