Jay Dratler

Scénariste

14 septembre 1911 — 21 septembre 1968 (57 ans)
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Jay Dratler (September 14, 1910- September 25, 1968) was an American screenwriter and novelist.

Born in New York City, his mother was from Austria. After attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the late 1920s, he studied at the Sorbonne in France and the University of Vienna, becoming fluent in French and German. He returned to the United States in 1932.

Cashing in on his exceptional language skills on his return to the United States, he was employed as an editor by a New York publisher and translated the books Goya and Zeppelin from German to English.

He moved to Hollywood and become a successful screenwriter and novelist. He wrote six novels, many screenplays and more than twenty television scripts. He was considered very influential during the classic era of film noir in the 1940s. He won both an Academy Award and an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Call Northside 777, and was nominated for an Oscar for his writing on Laura. The 1948 film Pitfall was based on Dratler's novel of the same title.

Late in life, Dratler began learning Spanish and became fluent, moving to Mexico City in the sixties. Dratler died of a heart attack at the British-American Hospital in Mexico City in 1968. His body was returned to New York. He was survived by his widow Berenice, a daughter, and a son, Jay Dratler, Jr., who became a professor of law at the University of Akron School of Law, specializing in intellectual property law.

Films & Séries sur Plex

  • Choc en retour
    Choc en retour1949
  • le piège
    le piège1948

Connue pour

  • Laura
    Laura1944
  • Choc en retour
    Choc en retour1949
  • le piège
    le piège1948
  • Appelez Nord 777
    Appelez Nord 7771948
  • L'Impasse tragique
    L'Impasse tragique1946
  • Cinq Mariages à l'essai
    Cinq Mariages à l'essai1952
  • Scandale à Las Vegas
    Scandale à Las Vegas1952
  • La Famille Addams
    La Famille Addams2 saisons
  • Scandale en première page
    Scandale en première page1948
  • Amour et swing
    Amour et swing1943
  • Meet Boston Blackie
    Meet Boston Blackie1941
  • Les Confessions de Boston Blackie
    Les Confessions de Boston Blackie1941
  • Un homme tombé du ciel
    Un homme tombé du ciel1942
  • L'Homme à la Rolls
    L'Homme à la Rolls3 saisons
  • La Cité sans voile
    La Cité sans voile4 saisons
  • Monsieur et Madame détective
    Monsieur et Madame détective2 saisons

Filmographie

1964
1963
1960
1958
1957
1955
1953
1950
1948
That Wonderful Urge · as Screenplay
1948
Pitfall · as NovelSur Plex
1948
Call Northside 777 · as Screenplay
1946
The Dark Corner · as Screenplay
1945
It's in the Bag! · as Screenplay
1944
Laura · as Screenplay
1943
Higher and Higher · as Screenplay
1942
Get Hep to Love · as Screenplay
1942
The Wife Takes a Flyer · as Screenplay
1942
1940
Girls Under 21 · as Screenplay