Alan Campbell (screenwriter)
Alan Campbell | |
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Born | Alan K. Campbell February 21, 1904 West Hollywood, California , U.S. |
Occupation(s) | Actor, screenwriter |
Spouses | |
Military career | |
Allegiance | United States |
Service/ | United States Army |
Rank | Captain |
Unit | Army Intelligence |
Battles/wars | World War II |
Alan K. Campbell (February 21, 1904 – June 14, 1963) was an American writer, stage actor, and screenwriter. He and his wife, Dorothy Parker, were a popular screenwriting team in Hollywood from 1934 to 1963.
Life and career
Born in Richmond, Virginia, he was the only child of Harry L. Campbell and his wife Hortense Eichel Campbell. He graduated from the Virginia Military Institute and moved to New York City in the late 1920s. An occasional contributor of prose to The New Yorker, he also acted on the Broadway stage. He met Dorothy Parker in 1932 and they married two years later in Raton, New Mexico. Like Parker, he was of Scottish and German-Jewish descent.
Campbell, Parker, and their collaborator,
In 1942, Campbell enlisted in the U.S. Army in Philadelphia. He was commissioned a captain, and served in Army Intelligence in Europe for the duration of World War II. Campbell and Parker divorced in 1947, then remarried in 1950. Although they lived separately from 1952 until 1961, they remained married until Campbell's death.
Campbell died of an apparent suicide on June 14, 1963, in
Film portrayal
Campbell was portrayed by Hal Holbrook in the 1977 film Julia and by Peter Gallagher in the 1994 film Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle.[3]
Partial filmography
- The Moon's Our Home (1936)
- Lady Be Careful (1936)
- Three Married Men (1936)
- A Star Is Born (1937)
- Sweethearts (1938)
- Trade Winds (1938)
- The Little Foxes (1941)
- Week-End for Three (1941)
- Tales of Manhattan (1942)
- Woman on the Run (1950)
- A Star Is Born (1954)
References
- ^ Tragic End for Alan Campbell, at the Dorothy Parker Society; published no later than January 18, 2006 (date of earliest version on archive.org); retrieved July 13, 2015.
- ^ Wilson, Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Location 6975). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.
- ^ Internet Movie Database entry for Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
External links
- Alan Campbell at IMDb
- Alan Campbell at the Internet Broadway Database