Casey Robinson
American film director
Casey Robinson
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Born |
Kenneth Casey Robinson
October 17, 1903 ( 1903-10-17 )
Logan, Utah
, U.S.
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Died |
December 6, 1979
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1979-12-07
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(aged
76)
Sydney
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New South Wales
, Australia
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Occupation(s) | Screenwriter , film director , producer |
Kenneth Casey Robinson (October 17, 1903 – December 6, 1979) was an American producer and director of mostly B movies and a screenwriter responsible for some of Bette Davis ' most revered films. Film critic Richard Corliss once described him as "the master of the art – or craft – of adaptation." [1]
Early life and Hollywood career
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Born in Logan, Utah , the son of a Brigham Young College (Logan, UT) [2] music/drama instructor, Robinson graduated from Cornell University at the age of 19 and briefly taught English before turning to journalism. [1] In 1927, he began his Hollywood career writing the titles for silent movies . [3] He graduated to directing in the early 1930s, but after six films he abandoned that field in order to concentrate on writing. The films with Davis included It's Love I'm After , Dark Victory , The Old Maid , All This, and Heaven Too , Now, Voyager , and The Corn Is Green .
Robinson's production credits include Days of Glory , Under My Skin , and Two Flags West , all of which he scripted as well. [4] He also worked on three weeks of re-writes for Casablanca , but was uncredited. [5] In 1935, Robinson was a write-in candidate for what was then called the Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay for his work on Captain Blood . [6]
After spending the better part of the 1930s and the early 1940s working at Warner Bros. , Robinson moved to MGM in the mid-'40s, then to 20th Century Fox in the 1950s. [3] He retired in 1962 and eventually emigrated to Sydney, Australia (his wife was Australian). While in Sydney he came out of retirement to write and produce Scobie Malone , in 1975. [7] [8]
His second wife was prima ballerina Tamara Toumanova ; they were wed from 1944 until their divorce in 1955. The union was childless. He died in Sydney , Australia in 1979, aged 76. [9]
Selected filmography
- Bare Knees (1928)
- Out of the Ruins (1928)
- The Head of the Family (1928)
- Companionate Marriage (1928)
- United States Smith (1928)
- Times Square (1929)
- The Squealer (1930)
- The Last Parade (1931)
- I Found Stella Parish (1935)
- Captain Blood (1935)
- It's Love I'm After (1937)
- Tovarich (1937)
- Four's a Crowd (1938)
- Dark Victory (1939)
- The Old Maid (1939)
- All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
- One Foot in Heaven (1941)
- Kings Row (1942)
- Now, Voyager (1942)
- This Is the Army (1943)
- Passage to Marseille (1944)
- The Racket Man (1944)
- Days of Glory (1944) (also producer)
- The Corn Is Green (1945)
- Father Was a Fullback (1949)
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
- The Egyptian (1954)
- While the City Sleeps (1956)
- Scobie Malone (1975) (also producer)
References
- 1 2 "Casey Robinson - Biography - Movies & TV - NYTimes.com" . web.archive.org . May 19, 2011. Archived from the original on May 19, 2011.
- ↑ Garr, Arnold (May 1973). A History of Brigham Young College, Logan, Utah (Thesis). p. 53. doi : 10.26076/8b34-8935 .
- 1 2 "Casey Robinson | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos" . AllMovie .
- ↑ "Casey Robinson" . BFI .
- ↑ Dave Kindy (January 23, 2022). " 'Casablanca' had a rocky start. Its stars never expected it to become a classic" . The Washington Post . Washington, D.C. ISSN 0190-8286 . OCLC 1330888409 .
- ↑ "The 8th Academy Awards | 1936" . Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences .
- ↑ Johnson, Molly (July 20, 1975). "Casey Now at Bat Down Under: Casey Still Producing Films in Australia". Los Angeles Times . p. t33. ProQuest 157728327 .
- ↑ Vagg, Stephen (September 29, 2019). "Ten Stories About Australian Screenwriters You Might Not Know" . Filmink .
- ↑ Casey Robinson at IMDb
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