Jay Dratler

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14 września 1911 — 21 września 1968 (57 years)
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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.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Impact
    Impact1949
  • Pitfall
    Pitfall1948

Known For

  • Laura
    Laura1944
  • Impact
    Impact1949
  • Pitfall
    Pitfall1948
  • Dzwonić Northside 777
    Dzwonić Northside 7771948
  • W matni
    W matni1946
  • The Las Vegas Story
    The Las Vegas Story1952
  • Rodzina Addamsów
    Rodzina Addamsów2 seasons
  • Uprzejmie informujemy, że nie są państwo małżeństwem
    Uprzejmie informujemy, że nie są państwo małżeństwem1952
  • That Wonderful Urge
    That Wonderful Urge1948
  • Confessions of Boston Blackie
    Confessions of Boston Blackie1941
  • Higher and Higher
    Higher and Higher1943
  • Meet Boston Blackie
    Meet Boston Blackie1941
  • The Wife Takes a Flyer
    The Wife Takes a Flyer1942
  • Prawo Burke'a
    Prawo Burke'a3 seasons
  • Naked City
    Naked City4 seasons
  • The Thin Man
    The Thin Man2 seasons

Filmografia

1964
1963
1960
1958
1957
1955
1953
1950
1948
That Wonderful Urge · as Screenplay
1948
Pitfall · as NovelNa 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
1941
Meet Boston Blackie · as Screenplay
1940
Girls Under 21 · as Screenplay