Robert Rossen

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1908-03-16 (58 years old)

Deathday

1966-02-18

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Robert Rossen

Biography

Robert Rossen (March 16, 1908 – February 18, 1966) 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 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 made 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...

Acting

2002

The Hustler: The Inside Story

as Self (archive footage)

Production

1961

The Hustler

as Director

1961

The Hustler

as Screenplay

1961

The Hustler

as Producer

1941

1949

All the King's Men

as Screenplay

1949

1941

Out of the Fog

as Screenplay

1956

1964

Lilith

as Director

1957

1941

The Sea Wolf

as Screenplay

1945

A Walk in the Sun

as Screenplay

1939

1959

1947

Body and Soul

as Director

1947

Johnny O'Clock

as Screenplay

1947

Johnny O'Clock

as Director

1943

Edge of Darkness

as Screenplay

1951

The Brave Bulls

as Director

1954

Mambo

as Director

1938

Racket Busters

as Screenplay

1964

Lilith

as Screenplay

1939

A Child Is Born

as Screenplay

1956

1956

1937

They Won't Forget

as Screenplay

1963

The Cool World

as Theatre Play

1947

Desert Fury

as Screenplay

1945

Rhapsody in Blue

as Additional Writing

1937

Marked Woman

as Screenplay

1959

1949

1949

1939

Dust Be My Destiny

as Screenplay

1964

Lilith

as Producer

1951

The Brave Bulls

as Producer

1941

Flight from Destiny

as Additional Writing

1954

Mambo

as Writer

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