Fred Haines
Fred Haines (born February 27, 1936 in Los Angeles , California , † May 4, 2008 in Venice , California) was an American screenwriter and film director .
Life
Haines grew up in Tucson , Arizona and served in the United States Navy from 1953 to 1956 . During this time he married for the first time. His marriage to the daughter of his commanding admiral, who had two children, was divorced in 1961. After his honorable discharge from service, Haines studied literature at Columbia University , the University of Arizona and the University of California, Berkeley .
After graduating, he worked for the radio station Pacifica Radio and met the director Joseph Strick , through whose mediation he got a job at Columbia Pictures and who later hired him as a co-writer for the feature film adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses . For their adapted screenplay, Strick and Haines were nominated for an Oscar in 1967 . Both then worked together on an adaptation of Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer , but due to artistic differences, Haines ended his collaboration. He then worked for several years on the completion of the feature film adaptation of Hermann Hesse's Der Steppenwolf , which he also directed.
While filming Ulysses in Ireland , Haines had met his second wife. When she got multiple sclerosis , the couple moved to Ireland, where they lived in Constantine Fitzgibbon's house . During this time, Haines was employed by the Irish television station RTÉ and worked as a theater director in Dublin . In 1984 they both moved back to Los Angeles, where Haines worked again with Joseph Strick in 1992 for the television film Sailing Tour of Horror .
Haines second marriage ended in divorce in 2000. He died in 2008 as a result of his lung cancer .
Filmography
- 1967: Ulysses (screenplay)
- 1974: Der Steppenwolf (Steppenwolf) (screenplay, director)
- 1992: Survive the Savage Sea (screenplay)
Awards
- 1968: Oscar nomination for Ulysses
Web links
- Fred Haines in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Fred Haines in the All Movie Guide (English)
- Obituary of the Los Angeles Times (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Obituary of The Independent (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haines, Fred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American screenwriter and film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 27, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Los Angeles , California |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 4, 2008 |
| Place of death | Venice , California |