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Theatre, Film, and Television Biographies
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Jules Tasca to Sam Trammell
Ernest Tidyman Biography (1928-1984)
Born January 1, 1928, in Cleveland, OH; died of a perforated ulcer and othercomplications, July 14 (one source says July 15), 1984, in London, England; son of Benjamin (a journalist) and Catherine (Kascsak) Tidyman; married secondwife, Susan Katherine Gould (a writer), December 25, 1970 (divorced); married fourth wife, Chris Clark; children: (first marriage) Benjamin, Nathaniel; (second marriage) Adam, Nicholas.
- Nationality
- American
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Writer, producer
- Birth Details
- January 1, 1928
- Cleveland, Ohio, United States
- Death Details
- July 14, 1984
- London, England
Famous Works
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CREDITS
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Film Work
- Producer and characters' creator, Shaft's Big Score, 1972
- Also involved with Shaft in Africa, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1973.
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Television Work
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Movies
- Co-producer, Dummy, CBS, 1979
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Miniseries
- Co-producer, Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story (also known as Alcatraz and Clarence Carnes), NBC, 1980
- Co-producer, Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (also known asThe Mad Messiah), CBS, 1980
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WRITINGS
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Screenplays
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Shaft (based on his novel), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1971
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The French Connection (based on the novel by Robin Moore), Fox, 1971
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Shaft's Big Score, 1972
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High Plains Drifter, Universal, 1973
- (With Abby Mann) Report to the Commissioner (also known as Operation Undercover), United Artists, 1975
- (Coauthor) Street People (also known as Gli Esecutori,
The Executioner,
The Executors,
The Sicilian Cross, and Uomo del'organizzazione), AIP, 1976
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A Force of One, 1979
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Last Plane Out, Fox Video, 1983
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Shaft (based on his novel), 2000
- Also author of Forfeit (based on the novel by Dick Francis) and Please Be Careful, Barney Noble.
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Television Movies
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Dummy (based on his book), CBS, 1979
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Velvet, ABC, 1984
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Brotherly Love, The WB, 1985
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Stark, CBS, 1985
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Stark: Mirror Image, CBS, 1986
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Television Miniseries
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To Kill a Cop, NBC, 1978
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Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story (also known as Alcatraz andClarence Carnes), NBC, 1980
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Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (also known as The Mad Messiah), CBS, 1980
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Power: An American Saga, NBC, 1980
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Books
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Flower Power, Paperback Library, 1968
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Absolute Zero, Dial, 1971
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High Plains Drifter, Bantam, 1973
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Dummy, Little, Brown, 1974
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Line of Duty, Little, Brown, 1974
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Starstruck, W.H. Allen, 1975
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Table Stakes: A Novel, Little, Brown, 1978
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Big Bucks: The True Story of the Plymouth Mail Robbery and How They Got Away with It, Norton, 1982
- Also author of The Billion Dollar Snatch.
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"Shaft" Series
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Shaft, Macmillan, 1970
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Shaft among the Jews, Dial, 1972
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Shaft's Big Score, Bantam, 1972
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Shaft Has a Ball, Bantam, 1973
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Goodbye, Mr. Shaft, Dial, 1973
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Shaft's Carnival of Killers, Bantam, 1974
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The Last Shaft, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975
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