American screenwriter and novelist
Millard Kaufman
(March 12, 1917 – March 14, 2009) was an American screenwriter and novelist.
[1]
His works include the Academy Award-nominated
Bad Day at Black Rock
(1955). He was also one of the creators of
Mr. Magoo
.
Early life
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Kaufman was born and raised in
Baltimore
and graduated from the
Baltimore City College
(high school).
[2]
He eventually graduated from
Johns Hopkins University
after work as a merchant seaman. After that, he moved to
New York City
, taking a job as copyboy for the
New York Daily News
. At some point, he married Lorraine Paley.
[3]
He enlisted in the
Marines
in 1942, served on
Guadalcanal
, landed at
Guam
with the
1st Marine Brigade (Provisional)
where he wrote an article for the
Marine Corps Gazette
about the battle,
[4]
then participated in the
Okinawa
with the
6th Marine Division
.
Screenwriting
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While serving in the Pacific, Kaufman had contracted
malaria
and
dengue fever
, and upon his return to the United States, felt he could no longer deal with the extremes of the New York City climate. He and his wife moved to
California
where he took up
screenwriting
. In
1949
, Kaufman wrote the screenplay for the short film
Ragtime Bear
, which was the first appearance of
Mr. Magoo
. He followed this up in
1950
with another UPA film,
Punchy de Leon
, featuring The Fox and The Crow.
In
1950
, Kaufman lent his name to screenwriter
Dalton Trumbo
, who had been blacklisted after investigation by the
House Un-American Activities Committee
, for the screenplay for
Gun Crazy
.
In
1953
, he received an
Academy Award
nomination for his screenplay for
Take the High Ground!
. In
1955
, he received another nomination for his screenplay for
Bad Day at Black Rock
. Although he usually worked as a writer, he also directed
Convicts 4
(
1962
) and served as
associate producer
for
Raintree County
(
1957
).
McSweeney's
published Kaufman's first fiction novel, titled
Bowl of Cherries
, in October
2007
. Kaufman was 86 years old when he began work on the novel and 90 when it was published. His second novel,
Misadventure
, was published
posthumously
.
[5]
He also published a
screenwriting
manual,
Plots & Characters: A Screenwriter on Screenwriting
.
[6]
Death
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Kaufman died aged 92 in
Los Angeles
of heart failure after open heart surgery.
Work
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Films
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Television
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Books
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- Plots & Characters: A Screenwriter on Screenwriting
(2001)
- Bowl of Cherries
(2007) ? paperback (2008)
- Misadventure
(2010)
Image
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References
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- ^
Mclellan, Dennis (17 March 2009).
"Millard Kaufman, 92, dies; Oscar-nominated screenwriter"
.
Los Angeles Times
. Retrieved
5 January
2020
.
- ^
Leonhart, James Chancellor (1939).
One Hundred Years Of Baltimore City College
. Baltimore: H.G. Roebuck & Son. p. 296.
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https://www.newspapers.com/image/893313445/?article=06fffae0-19db-4d00-afce-ab6770f198c1&focus=0.85048395,0.52346647,0.9698005,0.67912644&xid=3398&_gl=1*y46d72*_gcl_au*MTAxMzg3MzU4MS4xNzA0MTQxNjky*_ga*MTU2ODUwNTg4Mi4xNjc5NzczODI1*_ga_4QT8FMEX30*YzRkN2UzZDktMDU0MS00Yjk5LTk3MTItNDg0Mjg2YmQ4OGViLjM1Ni4xLjE3MDYzMjE2OTEuNDAuMC4w*_ga_LMK6K2LSJH*YzRkN2UzZDktMDU0MS00Yjk5LTk3MTItNDg0Mjg2YmQ4OGViLjEzMC4xLjE3MDYzMjE2OTIuMC4wLjA.&_ga=2.170362080.1508859502.1706308185-1568505882.1679773825
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Kaufman, 1stLt Millard
Attack on Guam
Marine Corps Gazette
v. 29, no. 4 (Apr45)
- ^
Screenwriter Millard Kaufman Dies
Yahoo News, March 17, 2009
- ^
"Book Details"
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External links
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- Rebecca Mead,
"The Literary Life: First at Ninety"
,
The New Yorker
, September 17, 2007
- Millard Kaufman
at
IMDb
- McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Bowl of Cherries: A Novel by Millard Kaufman.
- Grimes, William. "Millard Kaufman, 92, a Creator of Mr. Magoo, Dies,"
The New York Times
, Thursday, March 19, 2009.
- Interview with Kaufman
http://www.jhu.edu/jhumag/0408web/kaufman.html
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