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Victor Wolfson (8 March 1909 – May 24, 1990) was a dramatist, director, writer, producer and actor.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.authorandbookinfo.com/ngcoba/wo.htm )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/d/o/d/David-Allen-Dodge/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0164.html )〕 Wolfson began his professional career organizing acting clubs for striking coal miners in West Virginia. He soon found his passion for writing and he wrote numerous plays for Broadway, dramas for television and many novels. He wrote professionally until his death.〔 Wolfson attended the first class of the University of Wisconsin Experimental College, where he founded their theater group, the Experimental College Players.〔 His life's work was playwriting and he adapted most of his plays from novels. His Broadway productions included the 1937 comedy ''Excursion'', as well as ''Bitter Stream'', adapted from Fontamara by Ignazio Silone, ''Pastoral'', ''The Family'', ''Pride's Crossing'', and ''Seventh Heaven'' by Victor Young. His novels included ''The Lonely Steeple'' and ''The Eagle on the Plain'' and he also wrote for Harper's Magazine between 1948 and 1960.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.harpers.org/subjects/VictorWolfson )〕 In 1961, he wrote several episodes for ABC's 26-part television series ''Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years'' which earned him an Emmy Award 1960-1961 for Outstanding Writing Achievement in the Documentary Field.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0151518.html )〕 He died, aged 81, in a fire at his home in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, United States 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0938445/ )〕 Wolfson's parents, Adolph Wolfson and Rebecca Hochstein Wolfson, were ethnic Jewish radicals〔Gary M. Fink (ed.), "Theresa Wolfson," ''Biographical Dictionary of American Labor.'' Second Edition. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984; pp. 592-593.〕 who emigrated from Russia in 1894 to escape the pervasive anti-semitism and political persecution of the Tsarist regime. His sister Theresa Wolfson was an economist and prolific writer.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/wolfson-theresa )〕 ==Filmography== *1966 Rings Around the World (documentary) (screenplay / story) *1964 The Finest Hours (documentary) *1960 Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years (TV series documentary) (writer) *1956-1960 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV series) teleplay *1956 Climax! (TV series) *1956 Front Row Center (TV series) based on his own novel ''Midsummer Madness'' *1956 Kraft Theatre (TV series) *1954 Janet Dean, Registered Nurse (TV series) *1951-1952 Suspense (TV series) teleplay and writer – 8 episodes *1959 Invisible Man (TV series) scenario editor - 3 episodes 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「Victor Wolfson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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