Eleazar Lipsky

Eleazar Lipsky (born September 6, 1911 in Bronx , New York City , New York , † February 14, 1993 ) was an American lawyer , screenwriter and writer who won an Oscar for best original story and a second time for was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Screenplay.

Life

Lipsky completed after school to study law and was then as a lawyer and as a prosecutor ( Assistant District Attorney ) in Manhattan active. In 1947, Kiss of Death was his first novel , which was filmed by Henry Hathaway that same year . For the template for The Kiss of Death with Victor Mature , Brian Donlevy and Coleen Gray , he was nominated for the Oscar for best original story at the 1948 Academy Awards.

For submission to the murder trial of O'Hara (The People Against O'Hara, 1951), one of John Sturges with Spencer Tracy , Pat O'Brien and Diana Lynn incurred on his same 1950 published novel noir film , it was beyond Nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Screenplay in 1952.

Publications

• Kiss of Death , novel, 1947
• Murder One , novel, 1948
• The People Against O'Hara , novel, 1950
• Lincoln McKeever , 1953
• The Scientists , 1959
• Tiger in the Night , short story , 1964
• The Devil's Daughter , 1969
• Malpracice: A Novel , 1972

in German language

• The Kiss of Death: Detective novel , Original: Kiss of Death , Menden in Westphalia 1950
• All against O'Hara: detective novel , Original: The People Against O'Hara , Hannover 1955
• The Devil's Girl , Original: The Devil's Daughter , Munich 1972, ISBN 3-426-08815-0

Filmography

• 1947: The kiss of death ( Kiss of Death )
• 1951: The murder trial of O'Hara ( The People Against O'Hara )
• 1958: The Fiend Wh Walked The West ( Western remake of The Kiss of Death )
• 1964: Ready for the People ( TV movie )

Web links

• Eleazar Lipsky in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Bibliography in the Open Library