Robert Rossen
Film director
1908 – 1966
Who was Robert Rossen?
Robert Rossen was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer whose film career spanned almost three decades.
His 1949 film All the King's Men won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress, while Rossen was nominated for an Oscar as Best Director. He won the Golden Globe for Best Director and the film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture. In 1961 he directed The Hustler, which was nominated for nine Oscars and won two. Rossen was nominated as Best Director and with Sidney Carroll for Best Adapted Screenplay but did not win either award.
After directing and writing for the stage in New York, Rossen moved to Hollywood in 1937. There he worked as a screenwriter for Warner Bros. until 1941, and then interrupted his career to serve until 1944 as the chairman of the Hollywood Writers Mobilization Against the War, a body to organize writers for the effort in World War II. In 1945 he joined a picket line against Warner Bros., making an enemy of Jack Warner.
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- Born
- Mar 16, 1908
New York City - Also known as
- Robert Rosen
- Bob
- Spouses
- Sue Siegel Rossen
(1935/07/04 - 1966/02/18)
- Sue Siegel Rossen
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- New York University
- Lived in
- New York City
- Died
- Feb 18, 1966
New York City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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