Casey Robinson
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Born | Kenneth Casey Robinson October 17, 1903 Logan, Utah, U.S. |
Died | December 6, 1979 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | (aged 76)
Occupation(s) | Screenwriter, film director, producer |
Kenneth Casey Robinson (October 17, 1903 – December 6, 1979) was an American producer and director of mostly B movies and a screenwriter responsible for some of Bette Davis' most revered films. Film critic Richard Corliss once described him as "the master of the art – or craft – of adaptation."[1]
Early life and Hollywood career
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Born in Logan, Utah, the son of a Brigham Young College (Logan, UT)[2] music/drama instructor, Robinson graduated from Cornell University at the age of 19 and briefly taught English before turning to journalism.[1] In 1927, he began his Hollywood career writing the titles for
Robinson's production credits include
After spending the better part of the 1930s and the early 1940s working at
His second wife was
Selected filmography
- Bare Knees (1928)
- Out of the Ruins (1928)
- The Head of the Family (1928)
- Companionate Marriage (1928)
- United States Smith (1928)
- Times Square (1929)
- The Squealer (1930)
- The Last Parade (1931)
- Renegades of the West (1932)
- I Found Stella Parish (1935)
- Captain Blood (1935)
- It's Love I'm After (1937)
- Tovarich (1937)
- Four's a Crowd (1938)
- Dark Victory (1939)
- The Old Maid (1939)
- All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
- One Foot in Heaven (1941)
- Kings Row (1942)
- Now, Voyager (1942)
- This Is the Army (1943)
- Passage to Marseille (1944)
- The Racket Man (1944)
- Days of Glory (1944) (also producer)
- The Corn Is Green (1945)
- Father Was a Fullback (1949)
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
- The Egyptian (1954)
- While the City Sleeps (1956)
- Scobie Malone (1975) (also producer)
References
- ^ a b "Casey Robinson - Biography - Movies & TV - NYTimes.com". May 19, 2011. Archived from the original on May 19, 2011.
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- ^ a b "Casey Robinson | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos". AllMovie.
- ^ "Casey Robinson". BFI. Archived from the original on July 24, 2017.
- OCLC 1330888409.
- ^ "The 8th Academy Awards | 1936". Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
- ProQuest 157728327.
- ^ Vagg, Stephen (September 29, 2019). "Ten Stories About Australian Screenwriters You Might Not Know". Filmink.
- IMDb
External links
- Casey Robinson at IMDb