Robert Pirosh

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Robert Pirosh (born April 1, 1910 in Baltimore , Maryland , † December 25, 1989 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American film director and screenwriter who won both the Oscar for best original screenplay for the screenplay for the war film Kesselschlacht (1949) as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay .

biography

Pirosh began as a screenwriter in the mid-1930s and first worked on the making of a film on Charles Reisner's The Winning Ticket (1935) . In the course of his career he has worked as a screenwriter in more than 40 feature films and television series , and has also directed five films.

His greatest success as a writer was with the screenplay for the war film Kesselschlacht by William A. Wellman for which he received not only the Oscar for the best original screenplay , but also the Golden Globe Award for the best film script at the 1950 Academy Awards . He was also nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Drama.

In 1952 he was again for the Oscar for the best original screenplay for the war film Go for Broke! (1951) with Van Johnson and Gianna Maria Canale , in which he also directed. This time, however, he lost to Alan Jay Lerner in this category .

Other films that were made with his participation were The Marx Brothers: A Day at the Race (screenplay, 1937) by Sam Wood , Meine Frau, die Hexe (screenplay, 1942) by René Clair , The Valley of the Kings (direction, 1954) based on the non-fiction book Gods, Graves and Scholars (1949) by CW Ceram as well as Those Biting the Grass (1962) by Don Siegel .

At the end of the 1950s, he increasingly began writing screenplays for well-known television series such as At the foot of the blue mountains (1959), On the run (1963), Der Boss (1968 to 1971), Dear Uncle Bill (1970), Bonanza (1970 to 1972), Mannix (1970 to 1974), Hawaii Five-Zero (1977) and The Waltons (1978 to 1981).

Filmography (selection)

As a director

  • 1951: Go for Broke!
  • 1952: Washington Story
  • 1954: The Valley of the Kings (Valley of the Kings)
  • 1955: The Girl Rush
  • 1957: Spring Reunion

As a screenwriter

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