Herman Raucher

Herman Smoking ( born April 13, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American author and screenwriter, who was internationally known for movies such as Summer of '42, A College Love, Seduction, Other Side of Midnight or Sweet November.

• 4.1 Autobiographical works
• 4.2 Non Autobiographical works

Life and career

Herman smoking, the son of Benjamin Brooks and Sophie smoking Weinshank 1928 in Brooklyn with completion of the BA 1949 at New York University, worked first as a copywriter from 1950 to 1954 at 20th Century Fox, then from 1954 to 1955 for the Walt Disney Company and from 1956 to 1957 at the advertising agency Calkins and Holden. He also began writing screenplays for television series in Hollywood, including for The Alcoa Hour or Goodyear Television Playhouse. From 1957 to 1963 smoking was served as Vice President, Creative Director and Member of the Board of Directors, McCluton Advertising in New York. From 1963 to 1964, he worked as Vice President and Creative Director at Maxon, also in New York. Between 1964 and 1967 he held the same position even when two other advertising agencies, namely, Gardner and finally at Benton & Bowles in New York. He then worked exclusively in his preferred profession as a freelance writer and screenwriter.

In 1968 he succeeded with the script for the film production Adieu, dear November from director Robert Ellis Miller a tragic romance of the breakthrough. In 1969 he wrote the screenplay for Anthony Newleys Musical appetites of Jerome. For the director Melvin Van Peebles in 1970 he delivered the script for the comedy Watermelon Man. In 1972 smoking an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay for his work on Robert Mulligan's romantic drama Summer '42. During the 1970s more screenplays for such films as A College Love, Seduction, Other Side of Midnight, The Great Santini came. In the 1980s and 1990s, he wrote two screenplays for the films Proini peripolos and ode. In 2001, the director Pat O'Connor staged on the basis of his screenplay of 1968, the remake of Sweet November with Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron in the lead roles.

Smoking Herman married in 1960, the Broadway dancer Mary Kathryn Martinet, the couple has two children. Jacqueline Leigh and Jennifer Brooks.

Awards

Filmography (selection)

Cinema

TV

Bibliography (selection)

Autobiographical works

• Summer of '42 (novel)
• There Should Have Been Castles ( novel)

Not Autobiographical works

• Watermelon Man (novel)
• Harold ( play )
• A Glimpse of Tiger ( novel)
• Ode to Billy Joe (novel)
• Maynard 's House (novel)
• Ginger (Play)
• Kitty Hawk: The Musical ( play )