Paul Bogart

Paul Bogart ( born November 21, 1919 in Harlem, New York City, † April 15, 2012 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; actually Paul Bogoff ), was an American film director.

Life

Paul Bogart was born as Paul Bogoff 1919 in Harlem, a borough of New York. He later changed his name in Bogart, because the American sound. After serving in World War II in the U.S. Army in the Air Force, he began in 1946 a career as a puppeteer with the Berkeley Marionettes. He then became a stage manager and later director at the television station National Broadcasting Company (NBC ) to work for live TV games for the Kraft Television Theatre and the Goodyear Playhouse.

Work

From 1961 to Bogart led to episodes of father-son Court - series The Defenders Director, giving him an Emmy in 1965 earned his first television award.

His first feature film in 1966 was a black and white film adaptation of Anton Chekhov 's play Three Sisters with Geraldine Page, Kim Stanley and Sandy Dennis in the lead roles. It was followed by two feature films with Bogart's friend James Garner in the lead role, even as a private detective Marlowe in The Third in the ambush (1969 ) in a modern version of Raymond Chandler's novel The Little Sister and once as a slave trader next to Lou Gossett Jr. in two gallows birds (1971 ), a realistic westerns.

1970 Bogart gave the young Jeff Bridges his first film role in Halls of Anger. 1975 Dean Martin played under his direction in the feature film What good is a dead dog a steak? the prosecutor. Despite a total of nine feature film productions as a director Bogart remained all his life connected to television, where he worked among others in the television series All in the Family and The Golden Girls.

Bogart won five Emmys.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Overall Bogart won for his work including five Emmys:

Literature and links

• Paul Bogart at the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Profiles in the Museum of Broadcast Communications
• Paul Bogart interview at Archive of American Television
• Obituary for film director Paul Bogart in The Guardian