Maddow, Ben, 1909-1992

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Maddow, Ben, 1909-1992
Other forms of name
Maddow, Ben, 1909-
Date of birth
1909-08-07
Date of death
1992-10-09
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 92106438
Wikidata: Q816551
Library of congress: n 79145398
OCoLC: oca00376539
Sources of Information
  • His Forty-four Gravel Street, 1952.
  • Gerard Malanga : resistance to memory, 1998:t.p. (Ben Maddow) jkt. (1909-1992; writer and director)
  • Dict. of Literary Biography, 1986:(Ben Maddow (David Wolff) (1909- ); screenwriter; blacklisted in Hollywood from 1952-1960; until 1942 Maddow used the name David Wolff for his documentary pictures)

Wikipedia description:

Benjamin David Maddow (August 7, 1909 – October 9, 1992) was an American screenwriter, documentarian, and poet, whose career spanned the 1930s to 1970s. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on The Asphalt Jungle (1950), and shared a BAFTA Award for Best Documentary for co-directing the documentary The Savage Eye (1960). He sometimes used the pen name David Wolff.

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