---
name: "Abem Finkel"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/abem-finkel"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "6 December 1889"
died: "10 March 1948"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-20T00:33:16.947046+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Abem Finkel

Writer. Born 6 December 1889 in New York City. Died 10 March 1948.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 6 December 1889, New York City
- **Died:** 10 March 1948
- **Active:** 1938–1941
- **Frequently works with:** [John Huston](https://film.one/person/john-huston.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1930s 78 (1), 1940s 66 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q318779, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0277874/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/84642

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Sergeant York*](https://film.one/film/sergeant-york.md) (66)

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## Biography

Abem Finkel was an American screenwriter. Born in New York City on 6 December 1889, he was educated at the City College of New York and worked initially as a stage manager before entering film writing in 1931 at Columbia Pictures. He later held contracts with Warner Bros.

Finkel received screenplay credits on a number of Warner Bros. productions, including *Black Legion* (1937), *Marked Woman* (1937), *Jezebel* (1938) and *Sergeant York* (1941). He shared an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay for the latter. Other credits include *White Banners* (1938), *The Big Shot* (1942), *Tonight and Every Night* (1945) and *Time Out of Mind* (1947). He died in San Diego, California, on 10 March 1948.

*Sources: imdb.com, catalog.afi.com, de.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Sergeant York* (1941), Fi1m 66, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/sergeant-york.md)
- *Jezebel* (1938), Fi1m 78, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/jezebel.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Tender Years* (1948), Adaptation
- *Time Out of Mind* (1947), Screenplay
- *God Is My Co-Pilot* (1945), Screenplay
- *Tonight and Every Night* (1945), Screenplay
- *The Hundred Pound Window* (1944), Writer
- *The Big Shot* (1942), Writer
- *Sergeant York* (1941), Screenplay — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/sergeant-york.md)
- *White Banners* (1938), Screenplay
- *Jezebel* (1938), Screenplay — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/jezebel.md)
- *That Man's Here Again* (1937), Writer
- *Marked Woman* (1937), Screenplay
- *Black Legion* (1937), Screenplay
- *Public Enemy's Wife* (1936), Screenplay
- *Road Gang* (1936), Story
- *Special Agent* (1935), Screenplay
- *Black Fury* (1935), Screenplay
- *Hi, Nellie!* (1934), Screenplay
- *The Deceiver* (1931), Story

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1942: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Sergeant York*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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