Robert Rossen (March 16, 1908 – February 18, 1966) was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer whose film career spanned almost three decades.
His 1949 film All the King's Men won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress, while Rossen was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. He won the Golden Globe for Best Director and the film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture. In 1961, he directed The Hustler, which was nominated for nine Oscars and won two.
After directing and writing for the stage in New York, Rossen moved to Hollywood in 1937. From there, he worked as a screenwriter for Warner Bros. until 1941, and then interrupted his career to serve until 1944 as the chairman of the Hollywood Writers Mobilization, a body to organize writers for the effort in World War II. In 1945, he joined a picket line against Warner Bros. After making one film for Hal B. Wallis's newly formed production company, Rossen made one for Columbia Pictures, another for Wallis and most of his later films for his own companies, usually in collaboration with Columbia.
Rossen was a member of the American Communist Party from 1937 to about 1947, and believed the Party was "dedicated to social causes of the sort that we as poor Jews from New York were interested in."[1]
He ended all relations with the Party in 1949. Rossen was twice called before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), in 1951 and in 1953. He exercised his Fifth Amendment rights at his first appearance, refusing to state whether he had ever been a Communist. As a result, he found himself blacklisted by Hollywood studios as well as unable to renew his passport. At his second appearance he named 57 people as current or former Communists and his blacklisting ended. In order to repair finances he produced his next film, Mambo, in Italy in 1954. While The Hustler in 1961 was a great success, conflicts on the set of Lilith in 1964 so disillusioned him that it was his last film before his death two years later.[citation needed]
RobertRossen (March 16, 1908 – February 18, 1966) was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer whose film career spanned almost three decades...
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Donlevy, played the role throughout the series' run on NBC. Director RobertRossen offered the starring role in All the King's Men (1949) to Wayne, but...
wealthy aunt years prior. The screenplay was written by RobertRossen (and an uncredited Robert Riskin), adapted from the short story "Love Lies Bleeding"...
between fantasy and reality. A feature film of the same name written by RobertRossen and starring Jean Seberg and Warren Beatty was released in 1964. In...
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1986 Scorsese made The Color of Money, a sequel to the much admired RobertRossen film The Hustler (1961) with Paul Newman, which co-starred Tom Cruise...
(1956), which starred Burton in the title role and was shot in Spain for RobertRossen. He also portrayed Rochester in a British TV adaptation of Jane Eyre...
from 1919 to 1933, was written by Jerry Wald, Richard Macaulay and RobertRossen. The film follows three men and their experiences during major events...
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(Alberto Lattuada, 1951), L'oro di Napoli (Vittorio De Sica, 1954), Mambo (RobertRossen, 1955), Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968), Death in Venice (Luchino...
later films included the epics Alexander the Great (1956), directed by RobertRossen, El Cid (1961), directed by Anthony Mann and The Fall of the Roman Empire...
His later films as director and producer include Chaplin (1992) starring Robert Downey Jr., as Charlie Chaplin and Shadowlands (1993), based on the relationship...
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Burton met director RobertRossen, who was well known at the time for his Academy Award-winning film, All the King's Men (1949). Rossen planned to cast Burton...
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role of John F. Kennedy in PT-109. Fonda impressed RobertRossen who cast him in what would be Rossen's last movie, Lilith (1964), alongside Warren Beatty...
documentary, 17 Days Down the Line. Three years later, Hawaii Five-O veteran Robert Lewin gave Mann a shot and a crash course on television writing and story...
Enterprise's Body and Soul (1947), written by Polonsky, directed by RobertRossen, and starring John Garfield, made a deep and lasting impression on the...
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