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Ben Maddow (born August 7, 1909, Passaic, New Jersey - d. October 9, 1992, Los Angeles, California)〔From Social Security Death Index.〕 was a prolific screenwriter and documentarian from the 1930s through the 1970s. Educated at Columbia University, Maddow began his career working within the American documentary movement in the 1930s. In 1936 he co-founded the short-lived left-wing newsreel ''The World Today''. Under the pseudonym of David Wolff, Maddow co-wrote the screenplay to the Paul Strand–Leo Hurwitz documentary landmark, ''Native Land'' (1942). He earned his first feature screenplay credit with ''Framed'' (1947). Other screenplays include Clarence Brown's ''Intruder in the Dust'' (1949, an adaptation of the William Faulkner novel), John Huston's ''The Asphalt Jungle'' (1950, for which he received an Academy Award nomination), ''God's Little Acre'' (1958, an adaptation of the Erskine Caldwell novel officially credited to Philip Yordan as a HUAC-era "front" for Maddow), and, again with Huston, an Edgar Award for Best Mystery Screenplay) and ''The Unforgiven'' (1960). As a documentarian he directed and wrote such films as ''Storm of Strangers'', ''The Stairs'', and ''The Savage Eye'' (1959), which won the BAFTA Flaherty Documentary Award. Maddow made his solo feature directorial debut with the striking, offbeat feature ''An Affair of the Skin'' (1963), a well-acted story of several loves and friendships gone sour and marked by the rich characterisations which had distinguished his best screenplays. In 1961, Maddow and Huston co-wrote the episode "The Professor" of the 1961 television series ''The Asphalt Jungle''. His final screenplay was for the horror melodrama ''The Mephisto Waltz'' (1970). ==References== 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「Ben Maddow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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