Morton DaCosta

Morton DaCosta ( born March 7, 1914 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † January 26 1989 in Redding, Connecticut ) was an American playwright, but also a film director, film producer and actor.

Short Biography

Morton Tecosky, what was his name real name, graduated from Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania, with the later career goal to try it in the theater.

First, he found in 1937 in a theater in Dayton (Pennsylvania) a first job as an actor, and celebrated in November 1942 his debut on Broadway. The mid-1940s changed the page DaCosta, and served initially as an arranger and from 1954 as a theater director. His most famous play was the musical The Music Man from 1957, for which he a year later, the Tony Award was given. He also received in 1958 an honorary doctorate from Temple University.

Also in 1958 DaCosta was in the film comedy The great aunt for the first time as a director behind a film camera. Though his film career includes only three feature films, he was lucky with his choice of works. So he adapted the 1962 play The Music Man into a movie in 1963 and nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Picture as well as the Golden Globe Award. But as early as 1963 ended DaCosta the excursion into the world of film, and returned to Broadway.

DaCosta worked until his retirement in 1986 as director for the theater. He died three years later, at the age of 74 years, of heart failure.