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Richard Brooks
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter Born: May 18, 1912 in Philadelphia, PA Death: March 11, 1992 in Beverly Hills, CA Biography:After attending Philadelphia's Temple University, Richard Brooks labored away as a sports reporter for the Atlantic City Press Union, the Philadelphia "Record" and the New York "World-Telegram". Brooks joined New York radio station WNEW as a staff writer in the late 1930s, then moved on to the NBC network writing pool. After a season as director of New York's Mill Pond Theatre, Brooks headed to Los Angeles, where he did some more radio writing and broke into films as a scripter of "B" pictures, Maria Montez epics and serials. Following two years' wartime service with the Marines, Brooks published his first novel, an anti-intolerance effort titled "The Brick Foxhole". Brooks was contractually unable to work on the screenplay adaptation of "Brick Foxhole" (released in 1947 as "Crossfire"), but found time to pen a brace of additional novels; he also co-wrote "Brute Force" (1947) and "Key Largo" (1948). In... Full Biography
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