Lamar Trotti
Lamar Trotti (born October 18, 1900 in Atlanta , † August 28, 1952 in Oceanside , California ) was an American screenwriter and film producer .
Life
After studying journalism, Trotti worked as a reporter and then published a specialist film publication. From 1933 he worked as a screenwriter, subsequently also in films by John Ford and William A. Wellman . He had the greatest success with westerns and patriotic war films. From 1942, 20th Century Fox also used him as a producer.
Trotti has received multiple Oscar nominations and in 1945 was named Best Screenwriter for Wilson , a biography of US President Woodrow Wilson . He received his first nomination in 1940 for Best Original Story in Young Mr. Lincoln . In 1944 Ritt was nominated for Ox-Bow , for which he had written the screenplay and took over the production for 20th Century Fox , for best film , but could not prevail against Casablanca . In 1955, he received a nomination for Best Original Story for Rhythm in Blood .
Filmography (selection)
- 1934: Judge Priest
- 1935: Full steam ahead (Steamboat Round the Bend)
- 1937: In Old Chicago
- 1938: The Golden Whip (Kentucky)
- 1939: Young Mr. Lincoln (Young Mr. Lincoln)
- 1939: The love and life of the telephone maker A. Bell (The Story of Alexander Graham Bell)
- 1939: Drums Along the Mohawk (Drums Along the Mohawk)
- 1940: Trek to Utah (Brigham Young - Frontiersman)
- 1942: To the Shores of Tripoli
- 1942: Six Fates (Tales of Manhattan)
- 1943: Ride to the Ox-Bow (The Ox-Bow Incident)
- 1943: Guadalcanal Diary - Hell in the Pacific
- 1944: Wilson
- 1946: The Razor's Edge (The Razor's Edge)
- 1947: The Captain from Castile
- 1947: It started in Schneider's opera house (Mother Wore Tights)
- 1948: The Walls of Jericho
- 1948: Mistress of the Dead City (Yellow Sky)
- 1950: The Hero of Mindanao (American Guerilla in the Philippines)
- 1950: Cheaper by the Dozen (Cheaper by the Dozen)
- 1951: As Young as You Feel
- 1952: Five Pearls (O'Henry's Full House)
- 1952: Love, Timpani and Trumpets (Stars and Stripes Forever)
- 1952: With a Song in My Heart (With a Song in My Heart)
- 1954: Rhythm in the Blood (There's No Business Like Show Business)
Web links
- Lamar Trotti in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 60.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Trotti, Lamar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American screenwriter and film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Atlanta , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 28, 1952 |
| Place of death | Oceanside , California, United States |