Philip Stevenson

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Philip Stevenson (born December 31, 1896 in New York , † September 30, 1965 in Alma-Ata , Kazakh SSR ) was an American playwright, writer and screenwriter.

Life

Stevenson began to work as a writer and playwright in the 1920s. He worked with his wife, Janet Stevenson, on several pieces. Based on the play Counter-Attack , a film of the same name was made in 1945, directed by Zoltan Korda , and the two of them were involved in the realization. In the same year Stevenson was involved in the script for Battle Storm at Monte Cassino .

After the Second World War , Stevenson, like his wife, was blacklisted in the course of the McCarthy era and could only work to a limited extent in Hollywood . In the 1950s he only worked twice as a screenwriter. In addition, a feature film was made in 1954 with Damn Without Mercy , the script of which was directed by Bernard Gordon, based on a play by Stevenson.

Stevenson wrote several books using the pseudonym Lars Lawrence in the 1950s and founded the magazine California Quarterly, which appeared in 13 issues from 1951 to 1956. The magazine was intended to serve as a forum for radical writers and poets who were otherwise prevented from publishing due to media censorship.

At the 1946 Academy Awards , he was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Adapted Screenplay category, together with Guy Endore and Leopold Atlas, for their script for Schlachtgewitter am Monte Cassino .

Stevenson died of natural causes while traveling in the Soviet Union.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical summary on nytimes.com, accessed February 17, 2014
  2. ↑ Bernard Gordon In: The Gordon File. A Screenwriter Recalls Twenty Years of FBI Surveillance , o. O. 2004, p. 131
  3. ↑ Larry Ceplair In: The Marxist and the Movies. A Biography of Paul Jarrico , Lexington 2007, p. 130.
  4. ↑ Larry Ceplair, Steven Englund In: The Inquisition in Hollywood. Politics in the Film Community, 1930-1960 , Berkeley / Los Angeles / London 1979, p. 414.
  5. ↑ James J. Lorence In: The Suppression of Salt of the Earth , o. O. 1999, p. 100.
  6. ^ Biographical summary on nytimes.com, accessed February 17, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Stevenson, Philip
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lawrence, Lars
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter, writer, and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH New York , United States
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1965
Place of death Alma-Ata , Kazakh SSR