Sidney Carroll
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25 mei 1913 — 3 november 1988 (75 years)
Sidney Carroll was an American film and television screenwriter. Although Carroll wrote most frequently for television, he is perhaps best remembered today for writing the screenplays for The Hustler (1961) for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and for A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966). He has also won Emmys for the documentaries The Louvre (1978) and China and the Forbidden City (1963). In 1957, Carroll won an Edgar Award, in the category Best Episode in a TV Series, for writing "The Fine Art of Murder", an installment of the ABC program Omnibus. He wrote the screenplays for the 1974 Richard Chamberlain television version of The Count of Monte Cristo as well as the original story for the Michael Caine heist movie Gambit. He continued to write for television until 1986.
Known For
Filmography
| 1976 | |
| 1975 | Valley Forge · as Screenplay |
| 1975 | The Count of Monte-Cristo · as ScreenplayOp Plex |
| 1973 | |
| 1966 | |
| 1965 | |
| 1964 | |
| 1963 | |
| 1961 | The Hustler · as ScreenplayOp Plex |
| 1961 | |
| 1956 | |
| 1955 | |
| 1954 | |
| 1953 | |
| 1952 | Omnibus · as Screenplay |
| 1952 | |
| 1951 |
| 1989 | The 61st Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Memorial Tribute |
| 2012 | Gambit · as Story |
| 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected · as Story |
| 1975 | Beacon Hill · as Story By |
| 1966 | Gambit · as Story |
| 1959 | Nero Wolfe (1959) · as By |
| 1958 | Steve Canyon · as StoryOp Plex |
| 1955 | Playwrights '56 · as Adaptation |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents · as Story |
| 1953 | The United States Steel Hour · as Written By |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater · as Written By |
| 1948 | Studio One · as Written By |