Alfred A. Cohn

Screenwriter, Film writer

1880 – 1951

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Who was Alfred A. Cohn?

Alfred A. Cohn was an author, journalist and newspaper editor, Police Commissioner, and screenwriter of the 1920s and 1930s. He is best remembered for his work on The Jazz Singer, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay in the 1st Academy Awards of 1929.

Cohn was born in Freeport, Illinois but subsequently moved to Cleveland, Ohio where he began work as a newspaper editor and journalist. He then moved to Galveston, Texas where he ran a newspaper.

Following his career in journalism, he moved to Arizona and participated as a secretary in the Arizona constitutional convention which led to its statehood in 1912.

In the 1920s, he moved to Los Angeles, California and began working as a writer, first doing title cards for silent films and, later, scripts and adaptations. He was a co-writer on the 1926 film The Cohens and Kellys, the first of the six-film Cohens and Kellys franchise. His work on adapting The Jazz Singer, one of the first motion pictures with sound, from a play and short story by Samson Raphaelson, led to his first and only nomination for an Academy Award.

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Born
Mar 26, 1880
Freeport
Also known as
  • Alfred Cohn
  • Al Cohn
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  • United States of America
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Died
Feb 3, 1951
Los Angeles

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on July 23, 2013

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