Sydney Boehm
Sydney Boehm (born April 4, 1908 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † June 25, 1990 in Woodland Hills , Los Angeles ) was an American screenwriter and film producer . He was a specialist in genre films, especially crime films, and one of the most prolific film noir screenwriters.
Life
Boehm came to film quite late, until 1947 he was a reporter who brought his experience as a court reporter to his scripts. Except for two, all of his scripts were based on collaborations with other writers or their prior editing.
In the 1950s he was one after the other with the film companies Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox under contract. Later, Boehm not only wrote scripts, but also produced some of the films based on them. He remained active until 1971.
In addition to his first screenplay, which he wrote for the film Indictment: Murder , important points in his career were the films Side Street (1950), the sci-fi film The Doomsday (1951), Seven Thieves (1960), The City of a Thousand Hazards (1952) - for which he was nominated for the screenplay Oscar -, the screenplay for Fritz Langs Heißes Eisen (1953) - for which he and William P. McGivern received the Edgar Allan Poe Award - and two other adaptations of Books by William P. McGivern, Hot Pavement (1954) and Bloody Road (1955). Towards the end of his career, Boehm was also involved in several westerns , such as Retribution Without Mercy and When Jim Dolan Came (1967).
Filmography (selection)
- 1947: Indictment: Murder (High Wall)
- 1949: Alarm in the Underworld (The Undercover Man)
- 1950: The Dead in the Dunes (Mystery Street)
- 1950: The Branded
- 1950: People without a Soul ( Union Station )
- 1951: Doomsday (When Worlds Collide)
- 1952: The City of a Thousand Dangers (The Atomic City)
- 1952: The White Son of the Sioux (The Savage)
- 1953: The Big Heat (The Big Heat)
- 1954: Siege at Red River
- 1954: Secret of the Incas
- 1954: Under Two Flags (The Raid)
- 1954: Hot Patch (Rogue Cop)
- 1954: Black Friday (Black Tuesday)
- 1955: Sensation on Saturday (Violent Saturday)
- 1955: Three Rivals (The Tall Men)
- 1955: Bloody Road (Hell on Frisco Bay)
- 1955: The Bottom of the Bottle
- 1956: Women's Bungalow (The Revolt of Mamie Stover)
- 1958: The Tiger's Paw (Harry Black)
- 1959: Woman Obsessed
- 1960: Seven Thieves (Seven Thieves)
- 1960: Retribution Without Mercy (One Foot in Hell)
- 1964: Sylvia
- 1966: When Jim Dolan Came In (Rough Night in Jericho)
Web links
- Sydney Boehm in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Geoff Mayer: Historical Dictionary of Crime Films , 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-7900-3 , p. 48 f.
- ↑ Andrew Spicer, Helen Hanson: A Companion to Film Noir , 2013, ISBN 978-1-118-52375-9 , p. 194.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boehm, Sydney |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American screenwriter and film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 25, 1990 |
| Place of death | Woodland Hills , Los Angeles , California , United States |