James B. Allardice
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Born | Los Angeles, California , U.S. | March 20, 1919
Occupation(s) | American TV and film screenwriter/director |
Years active | 1942–1966 |
James B. Allardice (March 20, 1919 – February 15, 1966) was an American television comedy writer of the 1950s and 1960s.
Biography
James Burns Allardice Jr. was born to James Burns Allardice, a native of Scotland, and Lucinda (Lula) Masters Gladden. He was educated at McKinley High School in Canton, Ohio,.[1] He went on to the College of Wooster, where he was active in theater, and graduated in 1941. During World War II he served in the US Army. Following the war, Allardice attended graduate school at Yale University and wrote the play At War with the Army under playwright Marc Connelly, who taught drama courses.[2][3] [4][5] At War with the Army ran 151 performances on Broadway in 1949.[6] It was filmed in 1949 and released in 1950 in a production starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.[7]
Allardice is best known for his collaborations with writing partner
He contributed to Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and wrote Hitchcock's prologues, intermissions and epilogues for all of the 359 episodes of the series,[8][9] as well as many speeches for Hitchcock's public engagements.
He was married in 1943 to Alice Neff.[10]
Death
Allardice died in
References
- ^ "Ancestry - Sign In". www.ancestry.com.
- ^ "Connelly | Pennsylvania Center for the Book". pabook.libraries.psu.edu.
- ^ "Marc Connelly | American playwright". Encyclopedia Britannica.
- ^ "Hollywood Authors to Create Music for Little Theatre," October 9, 1959, Wooster Voice. Found at https://openworks.wooster.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1199&context=voice1951-1960
- ^ pp. 142-3 LIFE, April 4, 1949.
- ^ "At War with the Army Broadway @ Booth Theatre - Tickets and Discounts". Playbill.
- ^ At War with the Army on IMDb
- ^ Weaver, Tom, "Norman Lloyd Interview", I was a Monster Movie Maker: Conversations with 22 SF and Horror Filmmakers, p. 152. McFarland, 2001.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-01-31.
- ^ "Join Ancestry®". www.ancestry.com.
External links
- James B. Allardice at IMDb
- James B. Allardice at Find a Grave