Biography
Julius J. Epstein (1909–2000) was an American screenwriter. With his identical twin brother Philip G. Epstein he formed a writing partnership that began in the late 1930s and produced numerous screenplays for Warner Bros. Their most celebrated work was the screenplay for Casablanca (1942), written with Howard Koch and based on an unproduced play; the trio received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Epstein graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1931. Early credits included Four Daughters (1938), for which he received an Oscar nomination, and collaborations such as The Strawberry Blonde (1941), The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941) and Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942). After Philip’s death in 1952, Julius continued writing alone, with later credits including Send Me No Flowers (1964), Cross of Iron (1977) and Reuben, Reuben (1983), the last of which earned him another Oscar nomination.
