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Robert Alan Aurthur was born on 10 June, 1922 in New York City, U.S., is an American screenwriter. Discover Robert Alan Aurthur's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 56 years old?
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Producer, screenwriter, film director |
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56 years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Gemini |
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10 June, 1922 |
Birthday |
10 June |
Birthplace |
New York City, U.S. |
Date of death |
20 November, 1978 |
Died Place |
New York City, New York, U.S. |
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United States
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Who Is Robert Alan Aurthur's Wife?
His wife is Bea Arthur (m. 1947-1950)
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Bea Arthur (m. 1947-1950) |
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Jonathan Aurthur |
Robert Alan Aurthur Net Worth
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Robert Alan Aurthur (June 10, 1922 – November 20, 1978) was an American screenwriter, film director, and film producer.
Many of his works examined race relations and featured In the Heat of the Night star Sidney Poitier.
Raised in Freeport, New York (on Long Island), he was a pre‐med student at the University of Pennsylvania.
Once World War II broke out, he left to join the Marines during which he served as a combat correspondent.
One of their children was Jonathan Aurthur (1948–2004), who died by suicide eight years after his own son (Robert & Virginia's grandson) had committed suicide, and about which Jonathan Aurthur had written a book.
He was the first husband of actress Beatrice Arthur, who also served in the Marines; they divorced in 1950 and had no children.
She used a variation of his surname as her professional name.
His second wife was Virginia Aurthur.
One of his four 1951–55 plays for Philco Television Playhouse was the Emmy-nominated A Man Is Ten Feet Tall (1955), with Don Murray and Sidney Poitier, which was adapted two years later as the theatrical film, Edge of the City (1957) with Poitier and John Cassavetes.
He wrote two teleplays for Playhouse 90.
In the early years of television, he wrote for Studio One and then moved on to write episodes of Mister Peepers (1952–53).
He followed with teleplays for Campbell Playhouse (1954), Justice (1954), Goodyear Television Playhouse (1953–54) and Producers' Showcase (1955).
Three plays written by Aurthur were produced on Broadway: A Very Special Baby (1956), Kwamina (1961), and Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights (1968).
The subject material, an interracial love affair, proved too controversial and the show closed.
Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights was directed by Sidney Poitier and starred African-American stars Louis Gossett Jr.. and Cicely Tyson; the plot involved a young Jewish man who insisted on becoming a slave to an African-American law student as a penance for the years of wrongs whites have done to blacks.
It closed after seven performances.
Aurthur served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II.
One of them, A Sound of Different Drummers (October 3, 1957), borrowed so heavily from Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 that Bradbury sued.
After 1957, he continued to write screenplays.
He was one of the writers on Spring Reunion (1957), notable as Betty Hutton's final film, following with Warlock (1959), and his earlier association with Cassavetes led to script contributions on the actor's directorial debut with Shadows (1959).
After an uncredited contribution to Lilith (1964), he scripted John Frankenheimer's Grand Prix (1966).
He wrote and directed The Lost Man (1969) about a black militant (Sidney Poitier).
Aurthur died of lung cancer in New York City, aged 56, in 1978.
As the writer-producer of All That Jazz (1979), he received two posthumous Academy Award nominations.
In 2009, his former wife, Bea Arthur, would die of the same disease, aged 86.
Aurthur appeared with Merle Miller in David Susskind's 2012 documentary about President Truman titled Give 'em Hell, Harry, stating, "Going into a Howard Johnson's was bad enough, but with a President!"
They discussed George Marshall, Dwight Eisenhower, and Richard Nixon, as well as their observations on Truman's respect for Marshall.
At the time of his death Robert Alan Aurthur was married to Jane Wetherell Aurthur, a former television producer; they had one daughter, Kate Aurthur, who as of 2019 is an editor-at-large at Variety.