Dale Wasserman
Dale Wasserman ( November 2, 1914 in Rhinelander, Wisconsin; † December 21, 2008 in Paradise Valley, Arizona) was an American writer. He worked primarily as a playwright and screenwriter for film and television.
Life
Dale Wasserman was born in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, and at the age of nine orphan. He came with his older brother in an orphanage in South Dakota before he was Trebegänger. About this formative period of life he summed it later:
"I'm a self-educated hobo. My Entire adolescence which spent as a hobo, riding the rails and living Alternately on top of buildings on Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles. I regret never having received a formal education. But I did get a real education about human nature. "
"I am a self-taught survivalist and spent my youth as a locomotive on freight trains migrant worker who occasionally moved his quarters on the roofs of buildings on Spring Street in Downtown Los Angeles. I regret having ever received a normal education. Instead granted me life a deep insight into the true nature of man. "
Wasserman's first marriage to actress Ramsay Ames was divorced. In his second marriage he was married to Martha Nelly Garza, which holds the rights to his works.
He died 21 December 2008 in Arizona at the age of 94 years due to heart failure.
Career
At age 19, he began his theater career as a director, producer and lighting designer. His first piece was called Elisha and the Long Knives, he wrote for television. With two pieces, he became one of the most performed American authors: The Man of La Mancha and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Works
Pieces
Musicals
Screenplays
Television plays
Book
- 2003 The Impossible Musical: The "Man of la Mancha " Story