Edward Anhalt Biography (1914-2000)

Born March 28, 1914, in New York, NY; married, wife's name Edna (a writer), 1935 (divorced, 1956). Addresses: Agent: Arthur Axelman, William Morris Agency, 151 El Camino Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Nationality
American
Gender
Male
Occupation
screenwriter
Birth Details
March 28, 1914
New York, New York, United States
Death Details
September 3, 2000
Pacific Palisades, California

Famous Works

  • Credits; Film Work
  • Producer (with Edna Anhalt) My Six Convicts, Columbia, 1952.
  • Associate producer (with Edna Anhalt) Eight Iron Men, Columbia, 1952.
  • Producer, The Member of the Wedding, Columbia, 1952.
  • Credits; Film Appearances
  • Russian grand designer, The Right Stuff, Warner Brothers, 1983.
  • Credits; Television Work; Movies
  • Producer, Nowhere to Hide, NBC, 1979.
  • Credits; Television Work; Episodic
  • Director, "A Time for Killing," The Bob Hope Chrysler Theater, NBC, 1965.
  • Credits; Television Appearances; Movies
  • Senator Herbert Lehman, Tail Gunner Joe, NBC, 1977.
  • Alberto Amarici, Nowhere to Hide, NBC, 1979.
  • Judge, Madame X, NBC, 1981.
  • Credits; Screenplays
  • Problem Child (documentary), Independent, 1935.
  • Thunder of the Sea (documentary), Lutheran Radio Pictures, 1936.
  • (With Edna Anhalt, under joint pseudonym Andrew Holt) Strange Voyage, Monogram, 1946.
  • (With Edna Anhalt, under joint pseudonym Andrew Holt) Avalanche, Producers Releasing Corp., 1946.
  • (With Edna Anhalt) Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back, Columbia, 1947.
  • The Gentleman From Nowhere, Columbia, 1948.
  • (With Edna Anhalt, John Lucas Meredyth, George F. Slavin, and George W. George) Red Mountain, Paramount, 1952.
  • (With Edna Anhalt) The Member of the Wedding, Columbia, 1952.
  • (With Edna Anhalt) My Six Convicts, Columbia, 1952.
  • (With Edna Anhalt) Eight Iron Men, Columbia, 1952.
  • (With Edna Anhalt) Not as a Stranger, United Artists (UA), 1955.
  • (With Edna Anhalt) The Pride and the Passion, UA, 1957.
  • The Young Lions, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958.
  • In Love and War, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958.
  • The Restless Years (also known as The Wonderful Years), Universal, 1959.
  • The Sins of Rachel Cade, Warner Brothers, 1960.
  • (With J. P. Miller) The Young Savages, UA, 1961.
  • (With Allan Weiss) Girls! Girls! Girls! Paramount, 1962.
  • A Girl Named Tamiko, Paramount, 1962.
  • Wives and Lovers, Paramount, 1963.
  • Becket, Paramount, 1964.
  • (With James Clavell) The Satan Bug, UA, 1965.
  • Boeing, Boeing, Paramount, 1965.
  • Hour of the Gun, UA, 1967.
  • The Boston Strangler, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1968.
  • (With Alfred Hayes) In Enemy Country, Universal, 1968.
  • The Madwoman of Chaillot, Warner Brothers, 1969.
  • (With John Milius) Jeremiah Johnson, Warner Brothers, 1972.
  • Luther, American Film Theatre, 1974.
  • The Man in the Glass Booth, American Film Theatre, 1975.
  • (With Richard S. Lochte) Escape to Athena, I.T.C., 1979.
  • (With Ray Hassett, Anthony Simmons, and Robert DeLaurentiis) Green Ice, I.T.C., 1981.
  • (With George Axelrod and John Hopkins) The Holcroft Covenant, Universal, 1985.
  • Also author of The Salzburg Connection, 1971, and Splendora, with Camilla Carr.
  • Credits; Screen Stories
  • (With David Dressler) The Crime Doctor's Diary, Columbia, 1949.
  • (With Edna Anhalt) Panic in the Streets, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1950.
  • (With Edna Anhalt) The Sniper, Columbia, 1952.
  • Credits; Television Scripts
  • "A Time for Killing" (episode), The Bob Hope Chrysler Theater, NBC, 1965.
  • QB VII (mini-series), ABC, 1974.
  • Contract on Cherry Street (movie), NBC, 1977.
  • Nowhere to Hide (movie), NBC, 1979.
  • (With Jean Holloway) Madame X (movie), NBC, 1981.
  • (With James Lee Barrett and James Jones) The Day Christ Died (movie), CBS, 1982.
  • Peter the Great (mini-series), NBC, 1985.
  • The Neon Empire (movie), Showtime, 1989.
  • (With Handel Glassberg) The Take (also known as The Mobsters), USA, 1990.
  • Alexander the Great (mini-series), TBS, 1990.
  • Credits; Other
  • Contributor to periodicals, including American Cinematographer andScreen Actor; contributor to pulp magazines with Edna Anhalt, under joint pseudonym Andrew Holt, during the 1940s.

Further Reference

Books

  • Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 26: American Screenwriters, Gale, 1984.
  • Marshall, J.D., Blueprint on Babylon, Phoenix House, 1978.
Periodicals
  • Films in Review, April 1964; November, 1968.
  • New York Times, August 5, 1950; December 31, 1952; March 12, 1964;April 15, 1965; October 17, 1968.
  • Screen Actor, summer, 1981.
  • Time, March, 1965.