| dbo:abstract
|
- David Westheimer (* 11. April 1917 in Houston, Texas; † 8. November 2005 in Los Angeles) war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller. Die bekanntesten Werke des Zweiten-Weltkriegs-Piloten waren My Sweet Charlie und Von Ryan's Express (dt. Der späte Sieg des Commodore, 1965), der unter dem Titel Colonel von Ryans Express mit Frank Sinatra verfilmt wurde. (de)
- David Westheimer (April 11, 1917 in Houston, Texas – November 8, 2005) was an American novelist best known for writing the 1964 novel Von Ryan's Express which was adapted as a 1965 film starring Frank Sinatra and Trevor Howard. Ironically, one of his most popular novels, and perhaps his most enduring, was not credited to him for much of its shelf life: In its original printing, he was by-lined as the author of the novelization of Days of Wine and Roses based on the screenplay by his friend J.P. Miller. But the book proved hugely popular and the story had become so iconic that its publisher Bantam Books (and one supposes the authors, by mutual arrangement) took Westheimer's name off the book to move it into the "literature" category and keep it in print (which they did, for decades). Subsequent printings were branded only J.P. Miller's Days of Wine and Roses without an explicit by-line for the novel. Westheimer, a Rice University graduate, worked as an assistant editor for the Houston Post from 1939 to 1946 except for those years spent with the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. As a navigator in a B-24 he was shot down over Italy on December 11, 1942 and spent time as a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft III. His first novel, Summer on the Water, was published in 1948. In addition to Von Ryan's Express, Westheimer also wrote a television pilot set in an Italian prisoner of war camp called Campo 44. (en)
- David Westheimer, né le 11 avril 1917 à Houston au Texas et mort le 8 novembre 2005 à Los Angeles en Californie, est un journaliste, un scénariste et un écrivain américain. Ancien militaire, il est principalement connu pour être l’auteur du roman L'Express du colonel Von Ryan, adapté au cinéma sous le même titre, et pour la novélisation du film Le Jour du vin et des roses, réalisé par Blake Edwards. Comme écrivain, il a également utilisé le pseudonyme de Z.Z. Smith. (fr)
|
| rdfs:comment
|
- David Westheimer (* 11. April 1917 in Houston, Texas; † 8. November 2005 in Los Angeles) war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller. Die bekanntesten Werke des Zweiten-Weltkriegs-Piloten waren My Sweet Charlie und Von Ryan's Express (dt. Der späte Sieg des Commodore, 1965), der unter dem Titel Colonel von Ryans Express mit Frank Sinatra verfilmt wurde. (de)
- David Westheimer, né le 11 avril 1917 à Houston au Texas et mort le 8 novembre 2005 à Los Angeles en Californie, est un journaliste, un scénariste et un écrivain américain. Ancien militaire, il est principalement connu pour être l’auteur du roman L'Express du colonel Von Ryan, adapté au cinéma sous le même titre, et pour la novélisation du film Le Jour du vin et des roses, réalisé par Blake Edwards. Comme écrivain, il a également utilisé le pseudonyme de Z.Z. Smith. (fr)
- David Westheimer (April 11, 1917 in Houston, Texas – November 8, 2005) was an American novelist best known for writing the 1964 novel Von Ryan's Express which was adapted as a 1965 film starring Frank Sinatra and Trevor Howard. Westheimer, a Rice University graduate, worked as an assistant editor for the Houston Post from 1939 to 1946 except for those years spent with the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. As a navigator in a B-24 he was shot down over Italy on December 11, 1942 and spent time as a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft III. (en)
|
