Herman Wouk(1915-2019)

Herman Wouk was born on 27 May 1915 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Ouragan sur le Caine (1954), La furie des tropiques (1949) and Marjorie Morningstar. He was married to Betty Sarah Brown. He died on 17 May 2019 in Palm Springs, California, USA.

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6.4

5.4

L'affaire de la mutinerie du Caine
6.7
- based on the play by
- 2023
Les orages de la guerre
8.2
TV Mini Series
- novel
- written for television
- written for television by ...
- 1988–1989
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
6.8
TV Movie
- play
- written by (uncredited)
- 1988
Le souffle de la guerre
8.1
TV Mini Series
- novel
- teleplay
- from his novel ...
- 1983
Estudio 1
7.9
TV Series
- play
- 1974
Au théâtre ce soir
7.7
TV Series
- play
- 1973
Muiterij op de Caine
TV Movie
- novel "The Caine Mutiny"
- 1968
Ouragan sur le Caine
TV Movie
- play
- 1967
Youngblood Hawke
6.0
- novel
- 1964
Mytteriet på Caine
TV Movie
- based on novel
- 1964
Gran teatro
5.8
TV Series
- Writer
- 1962
Myteriet på Caine
TV Movie
- novel "The Caine Mutiny"
- 1960
Der Verräter
8.9
TV Movie
- novel "The Traitor"
- 1959
Die Caine war ihr Schicksal
8.6
TV Movie
- novel
- 1959
The Caine Mutiny Court Martial
TV Movie
- original novel
- original stage play
- 1959

Official sites
- Encyclopedia
- France's national library catalogue
Height
- 1.83 m
Born
- May 27, 1915
- New York City, New York, USA
Died
- May 17, 2019
- Palm Springs, California, USA(in his sleep)
Spouse
- Betty Sarah BrownDecember 10, 1945 - March 17, 2011 (her death, 3 children)
Other works
Publication of his novel, "A Hole in Texas: A Novel," by Little Brown & Company, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (ISBN 0316525901).
Publicity listings

Trivia
Served in the U.S. Navy as Executive Officer on the destroyer-minesweepers U.S.S. Zane and U.S.S. Southard. This later became the inspiration for his novel Ouragan sur le Caine (1954).

Quotes
[observation, 2016] Once the human race figured out how to dig uranium from the earth and make a projectile from it, it's really the end of war. In most of my lifetime, the two powers that could do it refrained from doing doing it because it was sheer folly ending in suicidal absurdity.