Stanley Roberts
Stanley Roberts (born May 17, 1916 as Stanley Lowenstein in New York City , † April 22, 1982 in Beverly Hills , California ) was an American screenwriter .
Live and act
Stanley Roberts attended Columbia College in his hometown and joined the film as a screenwriter at the age of 20. He delivered his first two manuscripts under his birth name Lowenstein before he chose the pseudonym Stanley Roberts that same year (1937). In the early years he mainly wrote scripts for B-Westerns for companies like Conn Pictures and Republic Pictures , in which future stars like John Wayne participated. For some of these films he only provided the story template.
It wasn't until the early 1950s that Roberts rose to be an A-movie writer. His first notable work was the 1951 film version of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman . Roberts received an Oscar nomination in 1955 for his screenplay for Edward Dmytryk's The Caine Was Fate, with Humphrey Bogart in the lead role .
A little later Roberts concentrated largely on the authorship for television and wrote the scripts for a plethora of individual episodes of popular series such as Bonanza , Mannix , Dear Uncle Bill , Petrocelli and Hart, but heartily . At the beginning of the 1980s, Stanley Roberts withdrew from the film and television business into private life.
Filmography
only as a scriptwriter (without story templates)
- 1937: Valley of Terror
- 1937: Galloping Dynamite
- 1937: Young Dynamite
- 1938: Heroes of the Hills
- 1938: Prairie Moon
- 1938: Red River Range
- 1939: The Night Riders
- 1939: Colorado Sunset
- 1940: Fugitive From a Prison Camp
- 1942: Who Done it?
- 1942: Behind the Eight Ball
- 1943: Never a Dull Moment
- 1945: Under Western Skies
- 1945: Penthouse Rhythm
- 1950: Age does not protect against love (Louisa)
- 1951: Up Front
- 1951: Death of a Salesman (Death of a Salesman)
- 1952: The Story of Will Rogers
- 1954: The Caine Mutiny (The Caine Mutiny)
- 1959-60: The Betty Hutton Show (TV series)
- 1962: Arthur Freed's Hollywood Melody (TV movie)
- 1963: The World's Greatest Showman: The Legend Cecil B. DeMille (TV documentary)
- 1965: Paris is full of love (Made in Paris)
- 1969: The Pigeon (Movie made for TV)
- 1970–71: Dear Uncle Bill (two episodes)
- 1970–72: Bonanza (several episodes)
- 1973: Mannix (an episode)
- 1976-77: Make-up and Pistols (two episodes)
- 1977: Barnaby Jones (an episode of the TV series)
- 1978: Kaz & Co (one episode)
- 1980: Hard but warm (one episode)
literature
- International Motion Picture Almanac 1965 . Quigley Publishing Company, New York 1964, p. 242
Web links
- Stanley Roberts in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roberts, Stanley |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lowenstein, Stanley (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 1982 |
| Place of death | Beverly Hills , California |