Robert Wright Campbell
Robert Wright Campbell (born June 9, 1927 in Newark , New Jersey , † September 21, 2000 in Monterey ) was an American screenwriter , writer and occasionally appeared as an actor . His name is usually abbreviated to R. Wright Campbell .
Life
Campbell studied painting at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and served in the United States Army during the Korean War . After his release, he asked his brother, the actor William Campbell , what he earned and then decided to move to Hollywood .
Campbell has written for various television series, including The Loretta Young Show and Warner Bros. ' Maverick and Bronco . His brother also introduced him to Roger Corman , for whom he wrote the scripts for Five Revolvers Go West (1955), Teenage Cave Man (1958) and Satanas - The Castle of the Bloody Beast (1964). In 1958 , he received an Oscar nomination for The Man with 1000 Faces , a documentary about the career of Lon Chaney senior . He was nominated for this together with Ivan Goff , Ben Roberts and Ralph Wheelwright , who were also involved in the development of the script.
Campbell stopped scripting in the late 1960s and turned to writing novels. He settled in Carmel , California . His first novel was The Spy Who Sat and Waited . He created the La-La Land series of novels, starring a hero named Jack Whistler, and a series of novels about Jack Flannery that won an Edgar Allan Poe Award and an Anthony Award . The two novels Stiche im Dunkeln (1983) and Enterprise Oscar (1983) were published in German by Bastei Lübbe . Trust the courage of your pigeon was published by Fischer Taschenbuchverlag in 1980 .
Works (selection)
- Stitches in the dark . Bergisch Gladbach: Bastei-Verlag Lübbe, 1983.
- Company Oscar . Bergisch Gladbach: Bastei-Verlag Lübbe, 1983
- Trust the courage of your pigeon . Frankfurt am Main: Fischer-Goverts, 1980
Filmography (selection)
- 1955: Five revolvers go west (Five Guns West)
- 1956: Shoot or Die! (Gun for a Coward)
- 1957: Quantez, the dead city (Quantez)
- 1957: The man with 1,000 faces (Man of a Thousand Faces)
- 1958: The Predator (Machine-Gun Kelly)
- 1958: Teenage Cave Man
- 1960: Uprising at dawn (A Terrible Beauty)
- 1963: Fast Cars and Affairs (The Young Racers)
- 1963: Dementia 13
- 1964: Satanas - The Castle of the Bloody Beast (The Masque of the Red Death)
- 1964: Dubrovnik (The Secret Invasion)
- 1967: The Wild Thugs of San Francisco (Hells Angels on Wheels)
- 1969: Kapitän Nemo (Captain Nemo and the Underwater City)
Web links
- Robert Wright Campbell in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Robert W. Campbell; Author, Scriptwriter - Los Angeles Times . Articles.latimes.com. October 1, 2000. Retrieved January 30, 2012.
- ↑ Robert Campbell . Fantasticfiction.co.uk. Retrieved January 30, 2012.
- ↑ Bouchercon World Mystery Convention: Anthony Awards Nominees . Bouchercon.info. October 2, 2003. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Campbell, Robert Wright |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Campbell, R. Wright |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American screenwriter, writer, and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Newark, New Jersey |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 21, 2000 |
| Place of death | Monterey, California |