Biografie

Wrote several scenes for Vom Winde verweht (1939), such as the Atlanta depot sequence. Then, as a joke, he included an outrageously expensive scene with an elaborate elevator shot of hundreds of wounded soldiers. David O. Selznick read it and loved it so much, he had it put in the film.

Although he spent many years in the business, and achieved a certain level of success, there is no known motion picture footage of him nor is there any known recordings of his voice.

Was a story teller from birth. At 14, during intervals of a basketball game at a local recreation hall he would get up and recite speeches from "Cyrano de Bergerac" until he was arrested.

Hated Boris Karloff whom he referred to as "my worst nightmare", and refused to work with him, until he was forced to by the studio. Then he discovered that Karloff hated the "horror" movies he had been in and loved the "terror" films that Lewton was doing and the two hit it off and made several pictures together -Body Snatcher, Isle of the Dead and Bedlam.

Lost his job as a reporter for the Darien-Stamford Review after it was discovered that a story about a truckload of kosher chickens dying in a New York heat wave was a total fabrication.