Leo Katcher
Leo Katcher ( born October 14, 1911 in Bayonne, New Jersey, † February 27, 1991 in Oceanside, California ) was an American journalist, screenwriter and writer.
Life
Katcher graduated from post-school studies at the University of Pennsylvania and New York University and then became a journalist. After initial activities in the daily newspapers Philadelphia Ledger, Philadelphia Record, he joined the staff of the tabloid New York Post, where he was city editor in the late 1930s. After the Second World War, he was a correspondent for the New York Post for the West Coast of the United States.
He began his career as a screenwriter in the film industry in Hollywood in 1950 with the submission to the staged by Gordon Douglas crime and adventure film Between midnight and morning ( Between Midnight and Dawn, 1950) with Mark Stevens, Edmond O'Brien and Gale Storm in the lead roles. He wrote until 1963 the templates for a total of nine films.
At the Academy Awards in 1957 he was nominated for an Oscar for best original story, and indeed for the titled lover for all eternity (The Eddy Duchin Story, 1956) resulting directed by George Sidney film biography about the jazz pianist and band leader Eddy Duchin with Tyrone Power in the title role, and Kim Novak and Victoria Shaw in other roles.
His 1959 published novel The Big Bankroll. The Life and Times of Arnold Rothstein supplied the template for the King of the Roaring 20 's: The Story of Arnold Rothstein, in which director Joseph N. Newman with David Janssen in the lead role, the life story of the businessman, notorious player and Mobster Arnold Rothstein filmed.
Publications
- Hard Man, 1957
- The Big Bankroll. The life and times of Arnold Rothstein, 1959
- The money people, 1961
- Now is the time, in 1964
- The blind cave, 1966
- Earl Warren. A political biography, 1967
- Post mortem: the Jews in Germany - now, 1968, ISBN 0-241-01595-2
- Hot pursuit 1971