Robert Wright Campbell
Robert Wright Campbell ( born June 9, 1927 in Newark, New Jersey; † 21 September 2000 in Monterey ), was an American screenwriter, writer and occasionally performed as an actor. His name is often abbreviated as R. Wright Campbell.
Life
Campbell studied painting at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and served during the Korean War in the United States Army. After his release, he asked his brother, the actor William Campbell, which deserve this and then decided to move to Hollywood.
Campbell wrote for several television series, including for The Loretta Young Show and Warner Bros. ' Maverick and Bronco. His brother also introduced him to Roger Corman, for whom he inter alia the screenplays for five turret to the west ( 1955), Teenage Cave Man (1958 ) and Satan - The Castle of bloody beast (1964). For the man with 1000 faces, a documentary about the career of Lon Chaney Sr., he received an Oscar nomination in 1958. For this he was nominated together with Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts and Ralph Wheelwright, who were also involved in the development of the script.
Campbell stopped in the late 1960s with the drehbücjhern and resorted to writing novels. he settled in Carmel, California. His first novel was ' The Spy Who Sat and Waited. He designed the novel series " La La Land" with a hero named Jack Whistler and a series of novels about Jack Flannery, who was honored with an Edgar Allan Poe Award and an Anthony Award. In the publishing Bastion Luebbe published in 1983 in German, the two novels stitches in the dark ( 1983) and Company Oscar (1983). Trust the courage of your dove appeared in 1980 at the Fischer paperback publishing.
Works (selection)
- Stitches in the dark. Bergisch Gladbach: Bastion - Luebbe Verlag, 1983.
- Company Oscar. Bergisch Gladbach: Bastion - Luebbe Verlag, 1983
- Trust the courage of your pigeon. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Goverts, 1980