Robert Rossen

Robert Rossen

Robert Rossen (March 16, 1908 – February 18, 1966) was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer whose film career spanned almost three decades. His 1949 film All the King's Men won Oscars for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress, while Rossen was nominated for an Oscar as Best Director. He won the Golden Globe for Best Director and the film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture. In 1961 he made The Hustler, which was nominated for nine Oscars and won two. Rossen was nominated as Best Director and with Sidney Carroll for Best Adapted Screenplay but did not win either award. After directing and writing for the stage in New York, Rossen moved to Hollywood in 1937. There he worked as a screenwriter for Warner Bros. until 1941, and then interrupted his career to serve until 1944 as the chairman of the Hollywood Writers Mobilization Against the War, a body to organize writers for the effort in World War II. In 1945 he joined a picket line against Warner Bros., making an enemy of Jack Warner. After making one film for Hal Wallis's new-formed production company, Rossen made one for Columbia Pictures, another for Wallis and most of his later films for his own companies, usually in collaboration with Columbia. Rossen was a member of the American Communist Party from 1937 to about 1947, and believed the Party was "dedicated to social causes of the sort that we as poor Jews from New York were interested in."[1] However, he finally ended all relations with the Party in 1949. Rossen was twice called before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), in 1951 and in 1953. He exercised his Fifth Amendment rights at his first appearance, refusing to state whether he had ever been a Communist. As a result he was unofficially blacklisted by the Hollywood studio bosses, and he was unable to renew his passport. At his second appearance he named 57 people as current or former Communists and was removed from the unofficial blacklist. After this, he had to produce his next film, Mambo, in Italy in 1954 to repair his finances. While The Hustler in 1961 was a great success, conflict with the star of Lilith so disillusioned Rossen that he made no more films during the last three years of his life. Rossen's films for Warner generally described the conditions of working people, the portrayal of gangsters and racketeers, and opposition to fascism. He wrote that ambition and the desire for success were common themes in his work. His films often featured strong female characters. All Rossen's playscripts were adaptions except three which were based on real events. While head of production at Warner, Wallis considered that some of his best films were written by Rossen. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Rossen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Titel: Robert Rossen
  • Populariteit: 5.729
  • Bekend om: Writing
  • Verjaardag: 1908-03-16
  • Geboorteplaats: New York City, New York, USA
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Robert Rossen Films

  • 2002
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    The Hustler: The Inside Story

    The Hustler: The Inside Story

    1 2002 HD

    Een kort overzicht van de productie van The Hustler en de betrokken spelers.

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  • 1961
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    The Hustler

    The Hustler

    7.667 1961 HD

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  • 1961
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    The Hustler

    The Hustler

    7.667 1961 HD

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  • 1961
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    The Hustler

    The Hustler

    7.667 1961 HD

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  • 1941
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    Blues in the Night

    Blues in the Night

    6.2 1941 HD

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  • 1949
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    All the King's Men

    All the King's Men

    6.9 1949 HD

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  • 1949
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    All the King's Men

    All the King's Men

    6.9 1949 HD

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  • 1946
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    The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

    The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

    7.1 1946 HD

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  • 1941
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    Out of the Fog

    Out of the Fog

    6.4 1941 HD

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  • 1956
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    Alexander the Great

    Alexander the Great

    5.894 1956 HD

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  • 1964
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    Lilith

    Lilith

    6.5 1964 HD

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  • 1957
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    Island in the Sun

    Island in the Sun

    6.5 1957 HD

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  • 1941
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    The Sea Wolf

    The Sea Wolf

    7 1941 HD

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  • 1945
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    A Walk in the Sun

    A Walk in the Sun

    5.7 1945 HD

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  • 1939
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    The Roaring Twenties

    The Roaring Twenties

    7.5 1939 HD

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  • 1959
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    They Came to Cordura

    They Came to Cordura

    6.519 1959 HD

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  • 1947
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    Body and Soul

    Body and Soul

    6.7 1947 HD

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  • 1947
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    Johnny O'Clock

    Johnny O'Clock

    6.1 1947 HD

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  • 1947
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    Johnny O'Clock

    Johnny O'Clock

    6.1 1947 HD

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  • 1943
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    Edge of Darkness

    Edge of Darkness

    6.1 1943 HD

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  • 1951
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    The Brave Bulls

    The Brave Bulls

    5.8 1951 HD

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  • 1954
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    Mambo

    Mambo

    5.5 1954 HD

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  • 1938
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    Racket Busters

    Racket Busters

    5.1 1938 HD

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  • 1964
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    Lilith

    Lilith

    6.5 1964 HD

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  • 1939
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    A Child Is Born

    A Child Is Born

    6.5 1939 HD

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  • 1956
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    Alexander the Great

    Alexander the Great

    5.894 1956 HD

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  • 1956
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    Alexander the Great

    Alexander the Great

    5.894 1956 HD

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  • 1937
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    They Won't Forget

    They Won't Forget

    5.7 1937 HD

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  • 1963
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    The Cool World

    The Cool World

    5.4 1963 HD

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  • 1947
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    Desert Fury

    Desert Fury

    6 1947 HD

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  • 1945
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    Rhapsody in Blue

    Rhapsody in Blue

    6.4 1945 HD

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  • 1937
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    Marked Woman

    Marked Woman

    6.5 1937 HD

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  • 1959
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    They Came to Cordura

    They Came to Cordura

    6.519 1959 HD

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  • 1949
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    The Undercover Man

    The Undercover Man

    6.2 1949 HD

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  • 1949
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    All the King's Men

    All the King's Men

    6.9 1949 HD

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  • 1939
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    Dust Be My Destiny

    Dust Be My Destiny

    6.1 1939 HD

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  • 1964
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    Lilith

    Lilith

    6.5 1964 HD

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  • 1951
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    The Brave Bulls

    The Brave Bulls

    5.8 1951 HD

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  • 1941
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    Flight from Destiny

    Flight from Destiny

    5.2 1941 HD

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  • 1954
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    Mambo

    Mambo

    5.5 1954 HD

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