Joseph Stefano
Joseph Stefano (born May 5, 1922 in Philadelphia , † August 25, 2006 in Thousand Oaks , California ) was an American entertainer and screenwriter .
Life
Joseph Stefano graduated from South Philadelphia High School in 1940 and went to New York to become an entertainer. He played the piano, sang, danced and wrote music and poetry.
At the beginning of his professional career, he was still composing pop music in the 1940s . Then he switched to writing film scripts, he wrote one of his first scripts in 1958 for Die Schwarze Orchidee . Stefano became a screenwriter for 20th Century Fox in 1960 and moved to Hollywood. The script for the Hitchcock classic Psycho , which would make him famous, followed right from the start . He later wrote for Outer Limits - The Unknown Dimension and Star Trek - The Next Generations, among others . He went back to his beginnings in 1990 when he wrote the screenplay for Psycho IV - The Beginning , another sequel to the Hitchcock film. Stefano's screenplay for the Hitchcock original also served as the basis for the 1998 remake by director Gus van Sant .
Stefano left behind his wife and a son.
Filmography (selection)
- 1958: The Black Orchid (The Black Orchid)
- 1960: A Man Goes His Way (The Naked Edge)
- 1960: Psycho
- 1968: Green eyes in the night (Eye of the cat)
- 1972: Under suspicion of murder (Home for the holidays)
- 1986: Anthony (The Kindred)
- 1988: Death Greetings from Beyond (Blackout)
- 1990: Psycho IV - The Beginning
- 1995: 25 cents (two bits)
- 1998: Psycho
Web links
- Joseph Stefano in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- "Joseph Stefano, 84, Screenwriter for 'Psycho' and Television, Dies" , AP / New York Times , August 30, 2006
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stefano, Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 25, 2006 |
| Place of death | Thousand Oaks , California |