George Axelrod Biography (1922-)

Born June 9, 1922, in New York, NY; son of Herman (in real estate) and Beatrice (a silent picture actress; maiden name, Carpenter) Axelrod; married GloriaWashburn (an actress) February 28, 1942 (divorced, 1954); married Joan Stanton, October, 1954; children: (first marriage) Peter, Steven; (second marriage) Nina. Career: Writer, director, and producer. Military service: U.S. Army Signal Corps, served during World War II. Member: Dramatists Guild, Authors League of America, Writers Guild of America West. Awards, Honors: Academy Award nomination, best adapted screenplay, 1961, for Breakfast at Tiffany's; screenplay award from the Writers Guild of America West, 1962. Addresses: Agent: Irving Paul Lazar Agency, 120 SouthEl Camino Dr., Suite 108, Beverly Hills, CA 90212-2730.

Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupation: Writer, director, producer
Birth Details: June 9, 1922; New York, New York, United States

Famous Works

CREDITS
Stage Work
Director, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (also known as Oh! For a Man!), Belasco Theatre, New York City, 1955
Producer (with Clinton Wilder), Visit to a Small Planet, Booth Theatre, New York City, 1957
Director, Once More, with Feeling, National Theatre, New York City, 1958
Director, Goodbye Charlie, Lyceum Theatre, New York City, 1959
Director, The Star-Spangled Girl, Plymouth Theatre, New York City,1966
Film Work
Producer (with John Frankenheimer), The Manchurian Candidate, United Artists, 1962
Producer (with others), Paris When It Sizzles, Paramount, 1964
Producer (with others), How to Murder Your Wife, United Artists, 1965
Producer and director, Lord Love a Duck, United Artists, 1966
Producer and director, The Secret Life of an American Wife, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1968
Television Appearances
Episodic
"Jayne Mansfield," Biography, Arts and Entertainment, 1994
WRITINGS
Stage Plays
Contributor, Small Wonder, Coronet Theatre, New York City, 1948
All About Love (cabaret piece), Versailles Theatre, New York City,1951
The Seven Year Itch, Fulton Theatre, New York City, 1952

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (also known as Oh! For a Man!), Belasco Theatre, 1955
Goodbye Charlie, Longacre Theatre, New York City, 1959
(With Peter Viertel) Souvenir, produced in Los Angeles, CA, 1975
Screenplays
Phffft!, Columbia, 1954
Adaptor (with Billy Wilder), The Seven Year Itch, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1955
Bus Stop (also known as The Wrong Kind of Girl), TwentiethCentury-Fox, 1956
Rally 'round the Flag, Boys!, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958
The Catbird Seat, Paramount, 1961
Breakfast at Tiffany's, Paramount, 1961
The Manchurian Candidate, United Artists, 1962
Paris When It Sizzles, Paramount, 1964
How to Murder Your Wife, United Artists, 1965
(With Larry H. Johnson) Lord Love a Duck, United Artists, 1966
The Secret Life of an American Wife, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1968
The Lady Vanishes, Hammer, 1979
(With Edward Anhalt and John Hopkins) The Holcroft Covenant, Universal, 1985
The Fourth Protocol, Lorimar, 1987
Teleplays
Series
Celebrity Time (also known as Celebrity Quiz), CBS, 1950
Meine Frau erfaehrt kein Wort, [Austria and West Germany, now Germany], 1969
Writings for the Radio
Series
Midnight in Manhattan, 1940
The Grand Ole Opry, NBC, 1950-52
Also wrote scripts for The Shadow.
Fiction
Beggar's Choice, Howell, Soskin (New York City), 1947
Blackmailer Fawcett (New York City), 1952
Where Am I Now When I Need Me?, Viking (New York City), 1971

Further Reference

Adaptations:

The play Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (also known as Oh! Fora Man!) was adapted for film by screenwriter and director Frank Tashlinand distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox in 1957. The play Goodbye Charlie was adapted for film by screenwriter Harry Kurnitz and director VincenteMinnelli and distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox in 1964; it was also adapted as a television special broadcast in 1987.

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

Film Comment, /December, 1995, p. 10.*

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