Richard Brooks
Sign in to saveAmerican screenwriter, film director and producer (1912-1992)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1912-05-18
- Died
- 1992-03-11
- Works
- 69
Top works
- Private Eye Post Mortem
- Found
- Excel VBA User Form Conundrum Solved
- mother's Love
- Producer
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Film & TV
Writing · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Richard Brooks (May 18, 1912 – March 11, 1992) was an American screenwriter, director, novelist and occasional producer. His outstanding works as director are Blackboard Jungle (1955); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958); Elmer Gantry (1960) – for which he won an Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay); In Cold Blood (1967); and Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977). Brooks was one of the…
Known for
- MGM: When the Lion Roars1992
- Bacall on Bogart — Self1988
- Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man — Self1988
- A Special Friendship — Matt Bowser1987
- Hill Street Blues — Tyrone Crane1981
- Elizabeth Taylor: An Intimate Portrait — Self1975
- Cinépanorama — Self1956
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 333
- Total plays
- 653
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data
· 1977 · cited 61,419x
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 57,940x
- Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform
· 2009 · cited 46,605x
- ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database
· 2009 · cited 46,001x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,243x
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Key facts
- Born
- Reuben Sax , May 18, 1912, Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , U.S.
- Died
- March 11, 1992 (1992-03-11) (aged 79), Los Angeles , California , U.S.
- Alma mater
- Temple University (withdrew)
- Occupations
- Film director screenwriter novelist
- Years active
- 1942–1985
- Spouses
- Jean Brooks , ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1941 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1944 ) Harriette Levin, ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1946 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1957 ) Jean Simmons , ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1960 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1980 )
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Key dates
- Born
- 18 May 1912
- Died
- 11 March 1992
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Richard
- Family name
- Brooks
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Philadelphia
- Place of death
- Studio City
- Spouse
- Jean Simmons
- Occupation
- director
- Educated at
- Temple University
Article
Richard Brooks (born Reuben Sax; May 18, 1912 – March 11, 1992) was an American film director, screenwriter, journalist and novelist. He directed 24 feature films between 1950 and 1985, and was known for his portrayals of hard-hitting subject matter, psychologically complex characters, and his independently minded auteurist approach to filmmaking.
His notable works included Blackboard Jungle (1955), Something of Value (1957), The Brothers Karamazov (1958), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (also 1958), Elmer Gantry (1960), Sweet Bird of Youth (1962), The Professionals (1966), In Cold Blood (1967) and Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977). He is also known for writing the films noir The Killers (1946), Brute Force (1947), and Key Largo (1948).
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1912 births1992 deaths20th-century American businesspeople20th-century American Jews20th-century American male writers20th-century American novelists20th-century American screenwritersAmerican male novelistsAmerican male screenwritersAmerican people of Russian-Jewish descentBest Adapted Screenplay Academy Award winnersBurials at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery