Sidney Carroll
Sidney Carroll ( born May 25, 1913 in New York City; † 3 November 1988 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American screenwriter.
Life and work
Sidney Carroll grew up in Brooklyn. He graduated from Harvard University, from which he graduated in 1934. During his studies he directed the satire magazine, The Harvard Lampoon. In 1940 he married the songwriter, singer and actress June Carroll ( 1917-2004 ). In 1949 their son, the future writer Jonathan Carroll, in New York to the world. In the same year Sidney Carroll began working in the film industry. He wrote screenplays for American TV shows such as Omnibus (ABC) and The DuPont Show of the Week ( NBC), as well as television specials such as the Emmy Award-winning documentaries The Louvre and The Forbidden City. More rarely, he worked as a writer for movies, his biggest success in this area was the literary adaptation The Hustler, which earned him an Oscar nomination and the Writers Guild of America Award.
Carroll died in 1988 at age 75 in Los Angeles, his grave is located in the local Mount Sinai Memorial Park.