Eugene Archer

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Samuel Eugene Archer (born July 17, 1930 , † January 30, 1973 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American film critic and screenwriter .

Life

Eugene Archer studied at the University of Texas and the University of California, Los Angeles . He had to interrupt his studies because he was drafted into the United States Air Force . He served in the Korean War and achieved the rank of staff sergeant in his four years of service. He then finished his studies at Columbia University . Through the Fulbright program , he studied film studies at the Sorbonne in Paris III University . During this time, the Nouvelle Vague was created and he met the directors Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut , whose films he later repeatedly criticized despite a friendly relationship.

Upon his return, he became a reporter for the New York Times in 1958 . Two years later he moved to the film department and began writing as a film critic. He stayed until 1965. During this time he was honored for his interviews with Orson Welles and Tallulah Bankhead . When he left the paper, he was chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle . He returned to Paris and stayed there for a few years. During this time he had a small guest appearance in the comedy The Collector, staged by Éric Rohmer .

He returned to the USA again and moved to Los Angeles . In addition to teaching at the University of California, Los Angeles, he began working as a screenwriter. While he was still working more and more as a script doctor on dialogue for Barbet Schroeder's drama More - more - his first full screenplay work was published with the 1971 drama The tenth day, directed by Claude Chabrol .

On January 30, 1973, Archer was found dead in his Los Angeles home. He died of natural causes at the age of 42. He was not married and had no children.

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SURNAME Archer, Eugene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Archer, Samuel Eugene (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film critic and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 17th July 1930
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1973
Place of death Los Angeles , California