Robert Ardrey(1908-1980)

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Robert Ardrey was born on 16 October 1908 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a writer, known for Khartoum (1966), Les Trois Mousquetaires (1948) and Les aventures de Quentin Durward (1955). He was married to Berdine Grünewald and Helen Johnson. He died on 14 January 1980 in Cape Town, South Africa.

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Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 nomination total

Known for

Charlton Heston and Laurence Olivier in Khartoum (1966)

6.8

Writer

1966

Les Trois Mousquetaires (1948)

Les Trois Mousquetaires

7.1

Writer

1948

Les aventures de Quentin Durward (1955)

Les aventures de Quentin Durward

6.3

Writer

1955

Robert Mitchum in L'Aventurier du Rio-Grande (1959)

L'Aventurier du Rio-Grande

6.1

Writer

1959

Credits

Writer

Theatre Night
7.0
TV Series
- play
- 1985
Up from the Ape
8.7
- screenplay
- story
- 1975
Leuchtfeuer
TV Movie
- play "Thunder Rock"
- 1967
Khartoum
6.8
- written by
- 1966
CBS Reports
7.3
TV Series
- writer
- 1964
Les quatre cavaliers de l'apocalypse
6.5
- screenplay
- 1962
De vuurtorenwachter
TV Movie
- Writer
- 1962
Shadow of Heroes
TV Movie
- Writer
- 1961
Schatten der Helden
9.0
TV Movie
- play "Shadow of Heroes"
- 1960
L'Aventurier du Rio-Grande
6.1
- screenplay by
- 1959
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre
7.2
TV Series
- play
- 1959
Leuchtfeuer
TV Movie
- play
- 1957
Les grands de ce monde
6.1
- screen play by
- 1956
Les aventures de Quentin Durward
6.3
- screen play
- 1955
Thunder Rock
TV Movie
- play
- 1955

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Personal details

Official site
- Official Site for The Robert Ardrey Estate
Height
- 1.77 m
Born
- October 16, 1908
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died
- January 14, 1980
- Cape Town, South Africa(lung cancer)
Spouses
Other works
Books: "African Genesis: A Personal Investigation into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man". New York: Atheneum. International bestseller. Called by The Nation: ""The most enjoyable and stimulating book on the evolution of man that has been published for some time."

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Trivia
Playwright, screenwriter and author. Graduate from the University of Chicago, Guggenheim Fellow (1937-38), Sidney Howard Memorial Award winner and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Quotes
We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or our treaties whatever they may be worth; our symphonies however seldom they may be played; our peaceful acres, however frequently they may be converted into battlefields; our dreams however rarely they may be accomplished. The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.

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