Ernest Tidyman

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Ernest Tidyman (born January 1, 1928 in Cleveland , Ohio - † July 14, 1984 ) was an American writer and award-winning screenwriter .

From 1945 to 1946 Tidyman was in the US Army. Between 1954 and 1966 he worked as a journalist (for example for the New York Post and New York Times ).

Tidyman became famous for his scripts for the films Shaft and French Connection - Focal Point Brooklyn . Tidyman wrote a total of seven Shaft novels. The novels, which until then had only been shortened and distorted in Germany, were published in 2004 by Pendragon Verlag in new translations following the originals.

Works

Novels

  • Shaft , 1970, ( Shaft and the Drug Cartel )
  • Shaft's Big Score , 1972 ( Shaft at the Gravedigger Congress )
  • Shaft Among The Jews , 1972 ( Shaft and the seven rabbis )
  • Shaft Has A Ball , 1973 ( Shaft and the murder plot )
  • Good-bye Mr. Shaft , 1973 ( Shaft and the Prodigal Sons )
  • Carnival Of Killers , 1974 ( Shaft and the Carnival for Killers )
  • The Last Shaft , 1975 ( Shaft and the Money Launderers )

Literary film templates

Scripts

Radio plays

  • "Shaft and the Drug Cartel"; (SWR 2004, director: Annette Kurth)
  • "Shaft and the Seven Rabbis"; (SWR 2004, director: Leonhard Koppelmann )
  • "Shaft at the Congress of the Gravedigger"; (SWR 2005, director: Annette Kurth)
  • "Shaft and the Assassination Plot"; (SWR 2005, director: Leonhard Koppelmann )
  • "Shaft and the lost sons" (SWR 2006, director: Leonhard Koppelmann )
  • "Shaft and the killer carnival" (SWR 2008, director: Leonhard Koppelmann )
  • "Shaft and the Money Launders" (SWR 2008, director: Leonhard Koppelmann )

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personal data
SURNAME Tidyman, Ernest
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American novelist and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Cleveland , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1984