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Theatre, Film, and Television Biographies
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Brock Peters to Jonathan Prince
Abraham Polonsky Biography (1910-1999)
Full name, Abraham Lincoln Polonsky; born December 5, 1910, in New York, NY;son of Henry and Rebecca (Rosoff) Polonsky; married Sylvia Marrow, 1937; children: Susan, Henry Victor. Addresses: Agent: Gersh Agency, 250 North Canon Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90210.
- Nationality
- American
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- writer, director
- Birth Details
- December 5, 1910
- New York, New York, United States
- Death Details
- October 26, 1999
- Beverly Hills, California
Famous Works
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Credits; Film Director
- (With Don Weis) Force of Evil (also see below), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 1948.
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Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (also see below), Universal, 1969.
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Romance of a Horse Thief, Allied Artists, 1971.
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Credits; Screenplays
- (With Frank Butler and Helen Deutsch) Golden Earrings (based on the novel by Yolanda Foldes), Paramount, 1947.
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Body and Soul (also known as An Affair of the Heart), United Artists, 1947.
- (With Ira Wolfert) Force of Evil (based on Wolfert's novel Tucker's People), MGM, 1948.
- (With Vera Caspary) I Can Get It for You Wholesale (also known asOnly the Best; based on the novel by Jerome Weidman), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1951.
- (With Howard Rodman and Harry Kleiner) Madigan (based on Richard Dougherty's novel The Commissioner), Universal, 1968.
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Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (based on Harry Lawton's novel Willie Boy ... A Desert Manhunt), Universal, 1969.
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Avalanche Express (based on the novel by Colin Forbes) Twentieth Century- Fox, 1979.
- (With Wendell Mayes) Monsignor (based on the novel by Jack Alain Leger), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1982.
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Credits; Novels
- (With Mitchell A. Wilson under joint pseudonym Emmett Hogarth) The Goose Is Cooked, Simon & Schuster, 1940.
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The Enemy Sea, Little, Brown, 1943.
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The World Above, Little, Brown, 1951.
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A Season of Fear, Cameron Associates, 1956.
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Zenia's Way, Lippincott, 1980.
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Credits; Other
- Author of essays, short stories, and scripts for radio and television.
Further Reference
Books:
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Contemporary Authors, Volume 104, Gale, 1982.
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Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 26: American Screenwriters, Gale, 1984.*
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