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name: "Albert Maltz"
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roles: ["Writer"]
born: "28 October 1908"
died: "26 April 1985"
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# Albert Maltz

Writer. Born 28 October 1908 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. Died 26 April 1985.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 28 October 1908, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- **Died:** 26 April 1985
- **Also known as:** John B. Sherry, Альберт Мальц, А. Мальц
- **Academy Awards:** 2 Oscar nominations
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Maltz, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q578011, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0540816/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/70940

## Biography

Albert Maltz was an American screenwriter, playwright and novelist. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he trained at Columbia and Yale universities and began his career writing plays in the 1930s before turning to screenwriting in the 1940s.

His credits include *This Gun for Hire* (1942), *Destination Tokyo* (1943), *Pride of the Marines* (1945), *The Naked City* (1948), *Broken Arrow* (1950, initially uncredited) and *The Robe* (1953, initially uncredited). He was one of the Hollywood Ten imprisoned in 1950 for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee regarding Communist Party membership, after which he was blacklisted for many years and wrote under the pseudonym John B. Sherry or without credit.

Later screen credits include *Two Mules for Sister Sara* (1970) and *The Beguiled* (1971).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, catalog.afi.com, latimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Robe* (1953), Fi1m 48, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-robe.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

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

- *The Beguiled* (2017), Original Film Writer
- *Pissawas Satan* (1986), Original Film Writer
- *Hangup* (1974), Writer
- *Scalawag* (1973), Writer
- *The Beguiled* (1971), Screenplay
- *Two Mules for Sister Sara* (1970), Screenplay
- *The Last Challenge* (1967), Novel
- *The Coin* (1962), Original Story
- *Studio 4* (1962), series, Novel
- *Short Cut to Hell* (1957), Screenplay
- *Hotelboy Ed Martin* (1955), Story
- *The Robe* (1953), Screenplay — Fi1m 48, [page](https://film.one/film/the-robe.md)
- *Broken Arrow* (1950), Screenplay
- *The Naked City* (1948), Screenplay
- *The Red House* (1947), Screenplay
- *Cloak and Dagger* (1946), Screenplay
- *The House I Live In* (1945), Writer
- *Pride of the Marines* (1945), Screenplay
- *Destination Tokyo* (1943), Screenplay
- *Seeds of Freedom* (1943), Writer
- *This Gun for Hire* (1942), Screenplay
- *Afraid to Talk* (1932), Theatre Play

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 2 nominated

- 1951: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Broken Arrow*
- 1946: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Pride of the Marines*

### Other awards — 1 won

- O. Henry Award 1938: O. Henry Award (won)

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

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