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Harry Essex (November 29, 1910 – February 5, 1997) was a prolific American screenwriter and director in feature films and television. Born and raised in New York City, his career spanned more than fifty years. ==Career== After graduating from St John's University in 1936, he did welfare work by day, while writing for the theatre by night. Among Essex's first jobs were stints on the New York City newspapers ''The Daily Mirror'' and ''The Brooklyn Eagle'', short stories for ''Collier's'' and ''The Saturday Evening Post'' as well as work in a ''Broadway'' play titled ''Something for Nothing'' (which Essex later called "a resounding failure").〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Harry Essex Biography (1910–1997) )〕 Writing for the movies was uppermost in Essex's mind throughout the period (and he did co-write the original story for Universal's ''Man Made Monster'' (1941)), but "the big break" never came, and World War II intervened as he was called into the draft, serving in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. Five or six days after Essex's discharge in 1947,〔 he ran into an old acquaintance whose new job was finding playwrights to turn into screenwriters for Columbia Pictures. Essex wrote or co-wrote dozens of movies and numerous TV shows during his lengthy Hollywood career.〔 Essex co-wrote Universal's ''The Fat Man'' (1951), which starred J. Scott Smart as the obese detective Brad Runyon, a role he had played on radio since 1946. (The series was developed especially for radio by Dashiell Hammett, creator of ''The Thin Man'', but as he had just been jailed for refusing to co-operate with the House of Representatives' Committee on Un-American Activities, Hammett's name was conspicuous by its absence on the screen credits of ''The Fat Man''.) Another sign of those paranoid times was that Essex and Earl Felton received screenplay credit on ''The Las Vegas Story'' (1952), but not their co-writer Paul Jarrico, who had been blacklisted.〔 His film credits include: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harry Essex」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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