Lukas Heller

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1930-07-21 (58 years old)

Deathday

1988-11-02

Place of Birth

Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Lukas Heller

Biography

Lukas Heller (21 July 1930 – 2 November 1988) was a German-born British screenwriter. Heller was born to a Jewish family in Kiel. His father was political philosopher Hermann Heller. He was known for writing the screen adaptions for several Robert Aldrich films such as What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) and Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964); for the later film he won an Edgar Award with Henry Farrell, who wrote the source text for both films.

Production

1967

The Dirty Dozen

as Screenplay

1964

Hot Enough for June

as Screenplay

1965

1970

Too Late the Hero

as Screenplay

1977

Damnation Alley

as Screenplay

2003

Monte Walsh

as Teleplay

1973

1970

Monte Walsh

as Screenplay

1979

Son of Hitler

as Writer

1959

Sapphire

as Additional Dialogue

2004

Flight of the Phoenix

as Scenario Writer

1986

Blue City

as Writer

1961

Never Back Losers

as Screenplay

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