Howard Dimsdale
Howard Dimsdale (born April 21, 1914 in Sioux City , Iowa , † August 27, 1991 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American screenwriter .
Life
Dimsdale wrote his first scripts for short films from 1938, and for smaller feature films from the mid-1940s. With the advent of television, he turned almost exclusively to this medium and from 1952 worked as a hard-working author of numerous episodes of series such as The Adventures of Robin Hood , Adventures in the Wild West , Ben Casey , Tennis Rackets and Cannons , Mannix , Planet of the Apes and Smoking Colts . Until 1988 he worked in this position, which he was forced to perform for many years in disguise and under the pseudonym Arthur Dales due to his appearance on the blacklist of the McCarthy era . After his playing days, he taught the few years that remained to him at the American Film Institute ; some of his students named several characters after Dimsdale in their productions.
Filmography (selection)
- 1938: Party Fever (short film)
- 1946: Somewhere in the Night (Somewhere in the Night)
- 1958: The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw)
- 1968: Bonanza (Bonanza) (TV series, 1 episode)
- 1969–1974: Rauchende Colts (Gunsmoke) (TV series, 3 episodes)
- 1988: Superboy (TV series, 2 episodes)
Web links
- Howard Dimsdale in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Example of a corrected credit ( memento of the original from June 16, 2008 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dimsdale, Howard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dales, Arthur |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sioux City , Iowa |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 27, 1991 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California |