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name: "Mortimer Offner"
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roles: ["Writer"]
born: "3 November 1900"
died: "1 September 1965"
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average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-19T22:50:00.428429+00:00"
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# Mortimer Offner

Writer. Born 3 November 1900 in New York. Died 1 September 1965.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 3 November 1900, New York
- **Died:** 1 September 1965
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortimer_Offner, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21176613, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0644420/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/139318

## Biography

Mortimer Offner (1900–1965) was an American photographer and screenwriter. Born in New York City, he trained at the Clarence White School of Photography after university studies and initially worked as a Broadway portrait photographer before moving into film.

Encouraged by Katharine Hepburn, he relocated to Hollywood in 1932 and turned to screenwriting, contributing to several RKO productions. His credits include the screenplay for *Alice Adams* (1935), co-written with Dorothy Yost and Jane Murfin, as well as *Sylvia Scarlett* (1935). He also served as assistant director on *Little Women* (1933).

Offner wrote ten screenplays, often adaptations of novels. A Communist Party activist, he was blacklisted in the McCarthy era, after which he returned to New York and worked under a pseudonym. He died in New York City in September 1965.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Alice Adams* (1935), Fi1m 79, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/alice-adams.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

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

- *Shades of Gray* (1948), Screenplay
- *The Family Next Door* (1939), Screenplay
- *Little Tough Guys in Society* (1938), Story
- *The Saint in New York* (1938), Screenplay
- *Radio City Revels* (1938), Screenplay
- *The Soldier and the Lady* (1937), Screenplay
- *Quality Street* (1937), Screenplay
- *Sylvia Scarlett* (1935), Screenplay
- *Alice Adams* (1935), Screenplay — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/alice-adams.md)
- *Little Women* (1933), Assistant Director

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