Stanley Roberts (screenwriter)

Stanley Roberts ( born May 17, 1916 as Stanley Lowenstein in New York City, † April 22, 1982 in Beverly Hills, California ) was an American screenwriter.

Life and work

Stanley Roberts Columbia College visited his hometown and came at the age of 20 years as a screenwriter for film. His first two manuscripts he gave under his birth name Lowenstein, before he chose the pseudonym Stanley Roberts in the same year (1937 ). In the early years, he wrote mostly screenplays for B- Western for companies such as Conn Pictures and Republic Pictures, in which afterwards became stars like John Wayne participated. Some of these films, he only supplied the story template.

Only in the early 1950s, Roberts went on to an A - movie writers. His first notable work was the 1951 film version of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. For his screenplay for The Caine Edward Dmytryks their fate with Humphrey Bogart was in the lead role was in 1955 Roberts an Oscar nomination.

A little later, Roberts largely focused on the authorship of the television and wrote to a wealth of individual episodes of popular series like Bonanza, Mannix, Dear Uncle Bill, Petrocelli and Hart to Hart the screenplays. By the early 1980s, Stanley Roberts retired from the film and television business back into private life.

Filmography

Only as a screenwriter ( without a story templates)