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Theatre, Film, and Television Biographies
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Brian Klugman to Michael Lantieri
Arthur Knight Biography (1916-1991)
Born Arthur Rosenheimer, September 3, 1916, in Philadelphia, PA; died of a heart attack, July 25, 1991, in Sydney, Australia; son of Arthur and Claudia (Oppenheimer) Rosenheimer; married Mary Ann Nyberg (a costume designer; divorced); married Anne Elizabeth Hall (a writer), September 25, 1981.
- Nationality
- American
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- film historian, critic, educator
- Birth Details
- September 3, 1916
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Death Details
- July 25, 1991
- Sydney, Australia
Famous Works
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Credits; Television Appearances
- Host, The Great Directors (also see below), syndicated, 1964.
- Host, Sex in Cinema (also see below), Playboy Channel, 1985.
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Credits; Television Work; Series
- Film coordinator, Omnibus, CBS, 1953-57.
- Film coordinator, Odyssey, CBS, 1957.
- Film coordinator, Seven Lively Arts, CBS, 1957.
- Coproducer, Sex In Cinema, Playboy Channel, 1985.
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Credits; Film Appearances
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Play It as It Lays, Universal, 1972.
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Credits; Radio Work
- Host of radio show, Knight at the Movies.
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Recordings;
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Sex in the Cinema, Iowa State University, 1976.
- (With Fay Mitchell Kanin) The Image of Women and Men in Films, Center for Cassette Studies, 1975.
- (With Sy Gomberg) The Era of the Blacklist, Center for Cassette Studies, 1975.
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Credits; Writings
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The Liveliest Art: A Panoramic History of the Movies, Macmillan, 1957, revised, 1978.
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The Hollywood Style, photographs by Eliot Elisofon, Macmillan, 1969.
- (With Hollis Alpert) Playboy's Sex in Cinema, 1970, Playboy Press,1971.
- (With Alpert and the editors of Playboy) Playboy's Sex in Cinema 3, Playboy Press, 1973.
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Playboy's Sex in Cinema 4, Playboy Press, 1974.
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Playboy's Sex in Cinema 5, Playboy Press, 1975.
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Playboy's Sex in Cinema 7, Playboy Press, 1977.
- Author of television series The Great Directors, 1964, and Sexin Cinema, 1985; author of over fifty documentary film scripts. Author of"Sex in Cinema" (column), Playboy, 1965-86. Contributor to books, including Encyclopedia Britannica and Collier's Encyclopedia; contributor to professional journals and periodicals, including Variety.
Further Reference
Periodicals
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Film Quarterly, summer, 1980, p. 52.
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Hollywood Reporter, July 26, 1991, p. 1.
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Publishers Weekly, November 1, 1986, p. 58.
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Variety, September 18, 1985; July 29, 1991.
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