Frank Tarloff

Frank Tarloff (* 4. February 1916 in Brooklyn , New York City ; † 25. June 1999 in Beverly Hills , California ) was an American screenwriter , who at the Oscar ceremony in 1965 an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for calling The Great Wolf received .

biography

Tarloff was the first time in 1943 as a dialogue writer for Campus Rhythm of Arthur Dreifuss involved in making a movie, but was in the 1950 's during the McCarthy era by the House Un-American Activities Committee as a "hostile witness" (unfriendly Witness) classified, making it was de facto banned from working and temporarily stayed in England with his family . In the next twelve years he not only used false names like "David Adler", but also "front writer", who passed off the scripts he wrote as their work.

He wrote screenplays during this time including television series like I married Joan , The Real McCoys , Mother is the Very Best, as well as The Dick Van Dyke Show and Andy Griffith Show .

For the screenplay for The Big Wolf Calls (1964) by Ralph Nelson he received the Oscar for the best original screenplay in 1965 together with the author of the template SH Barnett and Peter Stone and was also with Stone for the Prize of the Writers Guild of America ( WGA Award) nominated for best-written comedy.

He received another nomination for the WGA Award for Best-Written Comedy in 1968 for Guide to Affair (1967) by Gene Kelly with Walter Matthau and Inger Stevens . Other well-known films written with him scripts were Der doppelte Mann (1967) by Franklin J. Schaffner and Der Etappenheld (1967) by Jack Smight . In addition, Tarloff, whose son Erik Tarloff was also active as a screenwriter, also wrote scripts for episodes of the sitcom The Jeffersons (1975).

Web links

• Frank Tarloff in the Internet Movie Database (English)