Ernest Tidyman

Escritor, Productor

1 de enero de 1928 — 14 de julio de 1984 (56 años)
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Ernest Tidyman (January 1, 1928 - July 14, 1984) was a Cleveland-born American author and screenwriter, best known for his novels featuring the African-American detective John Shaft. He also co-wrote the screenplay for the film version of Shaft with John D.F. Black in 1971.

His screenplay for The French Connection garnered him an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as a Golden Globe Award, a Writers Guild of America Award, and an Edgar Award.

He also wrote the screenplay for the 1973 film High Plains Drifter, which was directed by Clint Eastwood, who was also its star. Tidyman also wrote the sequel to Shaft, Shaft's Big Score which appeared in theaters in 1972.

In 1974, he published Dummy, a non-fiction account of the story of an accused deaf-mute murderer. It was nominated for an Edgar in the Fact Crime category.

He co-wrote A Force of One in 1979, one of Chuck Norris's earlier films.

Thereafter, Tidyman never attained the kind of success he enjoyed with The French Connection and the Shaft series, although he had a high note in 1980 with his teleplay for the TV movie Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (which he also had a hand in producing), which garnered him an Emmy nomination. For creating the Shaft books, he became one of the few white individuals to win an NAACP Image Award.

Tidyman married Susan Gould, and fathered two children — Adam and Nicholas. Gould passed a few years later. In 1982, he married former Motown soul singer Chris Clark, who had co-written the screenplay for Lady Sings the Blues (1972). He died two years later from a perforated ulcer.

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Conocido por

  • French Connection, contra el imperio de la droga
    French Connection, contra el imperio de la droga1971
  • Infierno de cobardes
    Infierno de cobardes1973
  • Las noches rojas de Harlem (Shaft)
    Las noches rojas de Harlem (Shaft)1971
  • Shaft: The Return
    Shaft: The Return2000
  • Shaft
    Shaft2019
  • Shaft vuelve a Harlem
    Shaft vuelve a Harlem1972
  • Shaft en África
    Shaft en África1973
  • Fuerza 7
    Fuerza 71979
  • La tragedia de Guyana
    La tragedia de Guyana2 episodes
  • Quiero la verdad
    Quiero la verdad1975
  • El mudo
    El mudo1979
  • Con pasaporte al infierno
    Con pasaporte al infierno1983
  • Alcatraz, historia de una fuga
    Alcatraz, historia de una fuga1980
  • Un fantasma al sol de mediodía
    Un fantasma al sol de mediodía1973
  • Reflejo de muerte
    Reflejo de muerte1986
  • Power
    Power1980

Filmography

2019
Shaft · as Novel
2000
Shaft · as Novel
1985
Stark · as Screenplay
1983
1980
1979
1979
1978
1975
1974
1973
1972
1971
The French Connection · as Screenplay
1971
Shaft · as Screenplay

1972
The 44th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Winner
1971
Film · as Self

1986
Stark: Mirror Image · as Characters
1985
Brotherly Love · as Teleplay
1980
1980
1979
A Force of One · as Story
1976
Street People · as Dialogue
1973
Shaft · as Based On The Novel "shaft" By
1973
Shaft in Africa · as Characters