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John Cherry Monks Jr. (February 24, 1910 – December 10, 2004) was an American writer, actor, playwright, screenwriter, director, and a U.S. Marine.
John Monks Jr. was born on 24 February 1910 in Pleasantville, New York, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for The House on 92nd Street (1945), Where's Charley? (1952) and The West Point Story (1950). He died on 10 December 2004 in Pacific Palisades, California, USA.
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Dec 16, 2004 · Playwright-screenwriter John Monks Jr. died Dec. 10 of natural causes in Pacific Palisades. He was 94. In 1936, Monks and co-author Fred F. Finklehoffe’s first playwriting effort, “Brother...
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John Cherry Monks Jr. (February 24, 1910 – December 10, 2004) was an American author, actor, playwright, screenwriter, director, and a U.S. Marine.
He was born in Pleasantville, New York. He attended the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) and became a stage actor. Together with a fellow former cadet Fred Finklehoffe, he co-wrote a play in 1936 Brother Rat. The success of the play led to Warner Bros. purchasing the play for filming at VMI. Warners engaged them to write the screenplay for the film and a sequel Brother Rat and a Baby. Monks also wrote Strike Up the Band and Dial 1119 (1950) for MGM.
In World War II, Monks enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. He met producer Louis de Rochemont and co-wrote We Are the Marines. Captain Monks served in the 3rd Marine Regiment during the Bougainville campaign and wrote an account of the Regiment A Ribbon and A Star published in 1945.
Monks returned to civilian life writing the screenplays for several films such as The House on 92nd Street (winning an Edgar Allan Poe Award), Knock on Any Door, The People Against O'Hara and later with Richard Goldstone writing, producing and directing No Man Is an Island (1962) about American sailor George Ray Tweed who remained undetected on Guam from the Japanese invasion to the American recapture.
After a long absence from the cinema, Monks made several appearances as an actor beginning with Sylvester Stallone's Paradise Alley (1978).
In adapting the play by John Monks, Jr. and Fred F. Finklehoffe, scenarists Jerry Wald and Richard Macaulay flip-flopped the prominence of Albert's "Bing Edwards," a cadet at the prestigious Virginia Military Institute who harbors a secret, very pregnant and strictly verboten wife (Jane Bryan), with second banana "Billy Randolph" in deference ...
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writer, actor. 94 years biography, photo, best movies and TV shows, news, birthday and age, Date of Death. «S.W.A.T.» (1975 – 1976), «No Man Is an Island» (1962 ...
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John Monks Jr. was born on February 24, 1910 in Pleasantville, New York, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for The House on 92nd Street (1945), Where's Charley? (1952) and The West Point Story (1950). He died on December 10, 2004 in Pacific Palisades, California, USA. Connections. Gordon MacRae. Roy Del Ruth. Paul Whiteman. William Tracy.
