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American screenwriter
Frank Tarloff
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Born
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1916-02-04
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February 4, 1916
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Died
| June 25, 1999
(1999-06-25)
(aged 83)
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Occupation
| Screenwriter
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Spouse
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Lee Barrie
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m.
1942–1999)
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Children
| 2
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Frank Tarloff
(February 4, 1916 ? June 25, 1999) was a
blacklisted
American screenwriter who won an
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
for
Father Goose
.
[1]
A child of Polish immigrant parents, Tarloff grew up in
Brooklyn, New York
, where he attended
Abraham Lincoln High School
and
Brooklyn College
.
[2]
He began writing for stage and radio in the 1940s, and his first major film credit was
Behave Yourself!
. He was called to testify before the
House Un-American Activities Committee
in 1953, was categorized as a
hostile witness
, and was blacklisted. He spent the next 12 years living with family in England and writing under pseudonyms such as "David Adler" for shows such as
I Married Joan
,
The Real McCoys
,
The Dick Van Dyke Show
, and
Andy Griffith Show
.
He received the Academy Award for
Father Goose
together with S. H. Barnett and
Peter Stone
and was also nominated for the
Writers Guild of America
Award for best comedy writing. He received a WGA Award nomination for best comedy writing for
A Guide for the Married Man
, which he wrote on his own. He is also known for co-writing
The Secret War of Harry Frigg
.
He returned to television at the end of his career, writing for
The Jeffersons
.
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1940?1975
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- Preston Sturges
(1940)
- Herman J. Mankiewicz
and
Orson Welles
(1941)
- Michael Kanin
and
Ring Lardner Jr.
(1942)
- Norman Krasna
(1943)
- Lamar Trotti
(1944)
- Richard Schweizer
(1945)
- Muriel Box
and
Sydney Box
(1946)
- Sidney Sheldon
(1947)
- No award (1948)
- Robert Pirosh
(1949)
- Charles Brackett
,
D. M. Marshman Jr.
, and
Billy Wilder
(1950)
- Alan Jay Lerner
(1951)
- T. E. B. Clarke
(1952)
- Charles Brackett
,
Richard L. Breen
, and
Walter Reisch
(1953)
- Budd Schulberg
(1954)
- Sonya Levien
and
William Ludwig
(1955)
- Albert Lamorisse
(1956)
- George Wells
(1957)
- Nathan E. Douglas
and
Harold Jacob Smith
(1958)
- Clarence Greene
,
Maurice Richlin
,
Russell Rouse
, and
Stanley Shapiro
(1959)
- I. A. L. Diamond
and
Billy Wilder
(1960)
- William Inge
(1961)
- Ennio de Concini
,
Pietro Germi
, and
Alfredo Giannetti
(1962)
- James Webb
(1963)
- S. H. Barnett,
Peter Stone
and
Frank Tarloff
(1964)
- Frederic Raphael
(1965)
- Claude Lelouch
and
Pierre Uytterhoeven
(1966)
- William Rose
(1967)
- Mel Brooks
(1968)
- William Goldman
(1969)
- Francis Ford Coppola
and
Edmund H. North
(1970)
- Paddy Chayefsky
(1971)
- Jeremy Larner
(1972)
- David S. Ward
(1973)
- Robert Towne
(1974)
- Frank Pierson
(1975)
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1976?2000
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2001?present
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