Jeff Arch

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Jeffrey "Jeff" Arch (* December 1954 in Harrisburg , Pennsylvania as Jeffrey Gurkoff ) is an American screenwriter and film producer .

Life

Jeffrey Arch was born in Harrisburg , Pennsylvania , the youngest son of Eugene Gurkoff and Louise Grass . He grew up with his two older brothers, Joseph and Jon, in the Harrisburg Jewish community. After graduating from Harrisburg Academy in 1972, he studied film and theater production at Emerson College from 1972 to 1976. Arch began his film career as assistant camera to Conrad L. Hall . But he showed little interest in the camera system and rather in writing, which is why he oriented himself there. He wrote until he was thirty. However, when he received scathing reviews after performing his off-Broadway play For Sale and was quickly removed, he was so depressed that he decided to stop writing for three years.

However, he continued to write and was able to celebrate his biggest success to date with his first produced screenplay Sleepless in Seattle , a romantic comedy starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan . In 1994 he received not only an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay , but also a nomination for the British Academy Film Award in the category Best Original Screenplay .

Jeffrey Arch is married to Debra Magin, with whom he has two children.

Plays

  • 1984: For Sale

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Oscar
British Academy Film Award
  • 1994: Nomination for Best Original Screenplay with Sleepless in Seattle

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jeff Arch on radaris.com (English), accessed January 17, 2012
  2. ↑ Harrisburg and Israel, Louise Grass Passes Away  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.8 MB) from jewishharrisburg.org from June 8, 2007, accessed on January 17, 2012@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.jewishharrisburg.org  
  3. ↑ Jeff Arch (Gurkoff) on classmates.com (English), accessed January 17, 2012
  4. ↑ Jeff Arch on radaris.com (English), accessed January 17, 2012
  5. ↑ Mel Gussov: Play: 'Sale' by Gurkoff on nytimes.com from June 19, 1985 (English), accessed on January 17, 2012
  6. ↑ For Sale ( Memento of September 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at lortel.org (English), accessed on January 17, 2012
  7. ↑ Rita Cook: Jeff Arch screenwriter of SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE ( memento January 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on screenwritersutopia.com March 11, 2004, accessed January 17, 2012
  8. ↑ Jeff Arch, screenwriter of Sleepless in Seattle ( Memento from July 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) on jofrost.com (English)
  9. ↑ For sale on faqs.org (English), accessed 17 January 2012
personal data
SURNAME Arch, Jeff
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arch, Jeffrey (full name); Gurkoff, Jeffrey (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH December 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Harrisburg , Pennsylvania, United States