Edwin J. Burke
Edwin J. Burke ( born August 30, 1889 in Albany, New York, † September 26, 1944 in New York City ) was an American writer, actor, director and screenwriter, who at the Oscar ceremony 1932 Oscar for Best Adapted winning screenplay for Bad Girl.
Life
After attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1910, he began his career as an actor at a theater company in New York City, the staged primarily plays of William Shakespeare. Later, he became director of a traveling theater before they had to file after the actor strike 1919 bankruptcy. After that, he was the author of vaudeville performances and wrote as such in the course of ten years, more than 250 one-act plays and skits.
After he worked in 1928 at Plastered in Paris, a silent film with sound effects, by Benjamin Stoloff as an author, he was after the success of his play based on the film This Thing Called Love (1929 ) by Paul L. Stein among the first in New York City working dramatists who were working for the film industry in Hollywood.
In 1932 he received the written based on the novel by Vina Delmar screenplay by Frank Borzage film directed by Bad Girl (1931 ) won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay. In the following years he wrote the screenplays for some successful films like Dance Team (1932 ) by Sidney Lanfield, Bright Eyes (1934 ) and The Littlest Rebel (1935 ), both by David Butler with child star Shirley Temple.
After he left Hollywood in 1935 again, settled in Highbridge in New Jersey down and was later director of Percy Williams Home for Actors, a retirement home for actors in East Islip, New York. Shortly before his death, he worked with Winfield R. Sheehan, however, once on a script and indeed for the film Captain Eddie about the most successful American fighter pilots in World War I, Edward Vernon Rickenbacker.