Who is most known for writing the screenplays for "L.A. Confidential", Kurt Gerron or Brian Helgeland?
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Brian Helgeland Brian Thomas Helgeland (born January 17, 1961) is an American screenwriter, film producer and director. He is most known for writing the screenplays for "L.A. Confidential" (for which he received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay), "Mystic River", and "". Helgeland also wrote and directed "42" (2013), a biopic of Jackie Robinson, and "Legend" (2015), about the rise and fall of the Kray twins.
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Kurt Gerron Kurt Gerron (11 May 1897 – 28 October 1944) was a German Jewish actor and film director.
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Harvey Kurtzman Harvey Kurtzman ( ; October 3, 1924 – February 21, 1993) was an American cartoonist and editor. His best-known work includes writing and editing the parodic comic book "Mad" from 1952 until 1956, and writing the "Little Annie Fanny" strips in "Playboy" from 1962 until 1988. His work is noted for its satire and parody of popular culture, social critique, and attention to detail. Kurtzman's working method has been likened to that of an auteur, and he expected those who illustrated his stories to follow his layouts strictly.
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Linda Seger Linda Seger is a screenwriting coach and script consultant best known for her method of analyzing movie scripts, which she originally developed as her graduate school dissertation project on "What Makes a Great Script." She founded the script consulting industry, becoming the first entrepreneur who saw script consulting as a business, rather than an offshoot of seminars or books. She has consulted on over 2000 screenplays and over 100 produced films and television shows including "Universal Soldier", "The Neverending Story II", "Luther", "The Bridge" (miniseries,)etc. Her clients include Peter Jackson, Tri-Star Pictures, Ray Bradbury, and William Kelley. She lived in Los Angeles for 25 years, and now works from her mountain home in Colorado. Unlike other screenwriting gurus, (John Truby), (Syd Field), and (Michael Hauge), she is not a screenwriter, but has focused exclusively on consulting and teaching. She has presented her seminars in more than 30 countries on six different continents, including seminars for ABC, CBS, NBC, the McGyver series, film commissions, studios, and production companies. She has trained script consultants for the countries of New Zealand, Germany, Scandinavia, Italy, and Austria. .
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Herb Bermann Herb Bermann is an American lyricist, screenwriter, and actor. He is best known for co-writing the 1967 debut album "Safe as Milk" for Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band. A screenplay he co-wrote with Dean Stockwell became the inspiration for Neil Young's 1970 album "After the Gold Rush". A book featuring his known and previously unpublished lyrics, "The Mystery Man from the Magic Band", was published in 2015 by Brass Tacks Press.
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Brian Gallivan Brian Gallivan is an American actor, writer and comedian. He gained significant attention for his Second City Network web series "Sassy Gay Friend", based on a character he created in 2004 Second City mainstage revue "Red Scare". The series shows events that may have transpired if famous women (and a few men) in literature, film and history had been advised by the titular character.
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Gerald R. Molen Gerald Robert "Jerry" Molen (born January 6, 1935) is an American film producer. He has worked closely with Steven Spielberg, having produced five of his films, and won an Academy Award for co-producing "Schindler's List". Molen is now semi-retired and spends his time alternating between Montana and Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Brian Baumgartner Brian Bruce Baumgartner (born November 29, 1972) is an American actor and director. He is best known for playing Kevin Malone in the American adaptation of "The Office".
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John Cox (screenwriter) John Cox is an American screenwriter born and currently residing in Los Angeles, California. Cox co-wrote the film "Boot Camp" (2007), and the most current draft of Sgt. Rock for Joel Silver and Warner Bros. He also wrote "Virulents" for New Regency and director John Moore. Unproduced credits include "The Cold" (Warner Bros.), "The 10th Planet" (MGM), and "The Cotton Club Murder" (USA Network).
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Ted Bergmann Theodore Gerard Bergmann (September 12, 1920 – March 2, 2014) was an American television and radio producer, screenwriter, announcer, network and advertising executive. He worked for the Dumont Television Network in the 1940s and 1950s. He worked as a writer for the CBS-TV series "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" starting in 1967 and worked as producer and production manager for several other TV series from the 1970s through the 1990s.
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Kurt Weiland Kurt Weiland is a native of Austria and an executive in the Church of Scientology International. He is director of external affairs for the Church of Scientology's Office of Special Affairs, and Scientology's vice president of communications. He is a member of the organization's board of directors, and handles government, legal and public affairs for Scientology. He has often represented Scientology to the press as a media spokesman. Weiland works out of the Church of Scientology's offices in Los Angeles, California.
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Kerry Ehrin Kerry Anne Ehrin (born October 8, 1960) is an American screenwriter, showrunner, and producer. In 1990, she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series for her work on the ABC comedy-drama series "The Wonder Years". From 2006 until its ending in 2011, she worked as a consulting producer on the NBC drama series "Friday Night Lights". She was a showrunner of the A&E drama series "Bates Motel", which aired from 2013 to 2017.
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Deadland Deadland is a 2009 American science fiction film directed by Damon O'Steen, written by Gary Weeks, and starring Weeks, Brian Tee, and William Katt as survivors in a post-apocalyptic society five years after the United States is destroyed in a nuclear holocaust.
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Jerry Goldsmith Jerrald King "Jerry" Goldsmith (February 10, 1929July 21, 2004) was an American composer and conductor most known for his work in film and television scoring. He composed scores for such noteworthy films as "", "The Sand Pebbles", "Logan's Run", "Planet of the Apes", "Patton", "Papillon", "Chinatown", "The Wind and the Lion", "The Omen", "The Boys from Brazil", "Capricorn One", "Alien", "Outland", "Poltergeist", "The Secret of NIMH", "Gremlins", "Hoosiers", "Total Recall", "Basic Instinct", "Rudy", "Air Force One", "L.A. Confidential", "Mulan", "The Mummy", three "Rambo" films, "Explorers" and four other "Star Trek" films.
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Dan and Stacy Chariton Dan and Stacy Chariton are screenwriters of the 2013 film "The English Teacher", starring Julianne Moore, Nathan Lane, Greg Kinnear, Michael Angarano and Lily Collins, which premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival. They met as undergraduates at the USC School of Cinema-Television, where they studied under professor John Furia, Jr.
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Keith Giffen Keith Ian Giffen (born November 30, 1952) is an American comics artist and writer. He is best known for his work for DC Comics on their "Legion of Super-Heroes" and "Justice League" titles as well as for being the co-creator of "Lobo".
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Len Brown (comics) Len Brown (born October 7, 1941) is an American writer, editor, radio personality and comic book scripter, best known as the co-creator of "T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents" and "Mars Attacks".
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Barbara Turner (screenwriter) Gloria Rose "Barbara" Turner (July 14, 1936 – April 5, 2016) was an American screenwriter and actress. She was notable for the intensive amount of research she conducted during the screenplay writing process. One of her daughters is the actress Jennifer Jason Leigh.
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Robert Ozn Robert Ozn (born Robert M. Rosen, New York City), records under the name DaDa NaDa; Broadway credits as Robert Rosen; personal nickname OZN, (pronounced "OH-zen") is a Top Five Billboard recording artist, award-winning screenwriter, producer and Broadway actor, being the vocal half of 80s synthpop duo EBN-OZN; his solo act, Dada Nada; and for his later work as co-producer and co-writer with Colin Greene of the human-rights themed feature film "I Witness" starring Jeff Daniels, James Spader and Portia de Rossi.
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Robert Harron Robert Emmett "Bobby" Harron (April 12, 1893 – September 5, 1920) was an American motion picture actor of the early silent film era. Although he acted in over 200 films, he is known for his roles in the D.W. Griffith directed films "The Birth of a Nation" (1915) and "Intolerance" (1916).
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Mark Helfrich (film editor) Mark Helfrich (born Nov. 1957) is an American film editor and director. He is an elected member of American Cinema Editors (ACE) and serves on the board as an associate director. Helfrich has edited over thirty films such as "Stone Cold" (1991), "Showgirls" (1995) with Mark Goldblatt. Helfrich is also the primary editor for director Brett Ratner's films, such as "Money Talks" (1997), "Rush Hour" (1998), "The Family Man" (2000), "Rush Hour 2" (2001), "Red Dragon" (2002), and "After the Sunset" (2004), "" (2006) with Mark Goldblatt and Julia Wong. Helfrich directed "Good Luck Chuck".
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Shane Salerno Shane Salerno (born November 27, 1972) is an American screenwriter, producer, and director. His writing credits include the movies "Armageddon", "Savages," "Shaft", and the TV series "Hawaii Five-0". He was chosen by director James Cameron to work on the four sequels to "Avatar", set to release in 2020, 2021, 2024 and 2025. He spent ten years writing, producing, financing, and directing the documentary "Salinger", and co-writing with David Shields the companion book which became a "New York Times" bestseller. Salerno is also the founder and president of The Story Factory, which produces film and TV series based on literary properties.