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Robert Rossen started out as a professional welterweight boxer but turned to writing scripts for stage plays. He started staging plays for ‘Washington Square Players’ and later on for the ‘Theater Guild’ during the 1920s. From 1930 to 1935 he worked as an actor, stage manager and finally a director of stage plays.
Robert Rossen, originally known as Robert Rosen, was born on March 16, 1908, and raised on the lower East side of New York City. His father was a Russian-Jewish immigrant rabbi. As a youth Rossen attended New York University, hustled pool and fought some prizefights. He started his theatrical career as a director and playwright in stock and off ...
Former boxer whose work as a writer and director of socially conscious dramas such as "The Body Beautiful" led to a writing contract with Warner Bros. in 1936. Rossen scripted around ten features over the next seven years for directors including Lloyd Bacon, Mervyn Leroy and Lewis Milestone. His writing was influenced by his Communist ...
All the King's Men: Directed by Robert Rossen. With Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru, John Derek. The rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.
Robert Rossen, who was responsible for some of the screen's most creative realism, died at 10:30 A.M. yesterday at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. He would have been 58 years old on March 16.
Robert Rossen (n. 16 martie 1908, New York City, New York, SUA – d. 18 februarie 1966, Hollywood, California, SUA) a fost un scenarist american, regizor și producător de film, a cărui carieră în industria filmului a parcurs aproape trei decenii. Filmul său din 1949, Cariera de politician câștigat Premiul Oscar pentru cel mai bun film ...
Summer 2013. Robert Rossen: The Films and Politics of a Blacklisted Idealist (McFarland Press, 284 pages, $45) By Alan Casty. During the late 1940s, director Robert Rossen was a director of such creative tenacity that even the notorious Columbia Pictures boss Harry Cohn granted him complete control over his work.
