Biography
Oscar Saul (1912–1994) was an American screenwriter. He adapted Tennessee Williams' play for the 1951 film A Streetcar Named Desire.
Saul began his career in theatre, co-writing The Revolt of the Beavers (1937) and the Broadway play Medicine Show (1940). He moved into screenwriting in the mid-1940s, with credits including the story for Road House (1948), The Joker Is Wild (1957), Major Dundee (1965) and The Silencers (1966). He also wrote the screenplay for the 1984 television adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire.
Saul published the novel The Dark Side of Love in 1974 and received the Writers Guild of America's Morgan Cox Award in 1990 for his teaching work.
