Ernest Tidyman (January 1 1928 - July 14 1984) was a Cleveland-born American author and screenwriter, best known for his novels featuring the African-American detective John Shaft. He also co-wrote the film version of Shaft with John D.F. Black in 1971. Tidyman married Susan Gould, and moved off to Connecticut. Susan passed a few years later leaving behind two children, Nick and Adam.

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  • Ernest Tidyman (January 1 1928 - July 14 1984) was a Cleveland-born American author and screenwriter, best known for his novels featuring the African-American detective John Shaft. He also co-wrote the film version of Shaft with John D.F. Black in 1971. Tidyman married Susan Gould, and moved off to Connecticut. Susan passed a few years later leaving behind two children, Nick and Adam. He was also uncle to the great Austin Gould, currently mixing and producing music professionally in Lexington, KY. His screenplay for The French Connection garnered him an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as a Golden Globe Award, a Writers Guild of America Award, and an Edgar Award. He also wrote the screenplay for the 1973 film High Plains Drifter, which was directed by Clint Eastwood, who was also its star. Tidyman also wrote the less successful sequel to Shaft, Shaft's Big Score which appeared in theaters in 1972. In 1974, he published Dummy, a non-fiction account of the story of an accused deaf-mute murderer. It was nominated for an Edgar in the Fact Crime category. He co-wrote A Force of One in 1979, one of Chuck Norris's earlier films. Thereafter, Tidyman never attained the kind of success he enjoyed with The French Connection and the Shaft series, although he had a high note in 1980 with his teleplay for the TV movie Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (which he also had a hand in producing), which garnered him an Emmy nomination. For creating the Shaft books, he became one of the few white individuals to win an NAACP Image Award. In 1982, he married former Motown soul singer Chris Clark, who had co-written the screenplay for Lady Sings the Blues (1972). He died two years later from a perforated ulcer. Tidyman had two children with Susan Gould, Adam and Nicholas, with Adam as the elder. (en)
  • Ernest Tidyman (* 1. Januar 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio; † 14. Juli 1984) war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und preisgekrönter Drehbuchautor. Von 1945 bis 1946 war Tidyman bei der U.S. Army. Zwischen 1954 und 1966 arbeitete er als Journalist (zum Beispiel für die New York Post und New York Times). Tidyman wurde unter anderem durch seine Drehbücher zu den Filmen Shaft und French Connection – Brennpunkt Brooklyn berühmt. Insgesamt schrieb Tidyman sechs Shaft-Romane. Die in Deutschland bis dahin nur gekürzt und entstellt übersetzten Romane wurden im Jahr 2004 vom Pendragon Verlag in neuer, den Originalen folgenden Übersetzungen verlegt. (de)
  • Ernest Tidyman est un scénariste et producteur américain né le 1928 à Cleveland, Ohio (États-Unis), décédé le 14 juillet 1984 des complications d'un ulcère perforé. (fr)
  • Ernest Tidyman (ur. 1 stycznia 1928 w Cleveland, zm. 14 lipca 1984), amerykański pisarz i scenarzysta filmowy. Laureat Oscara. Popularność zyskał jako autor serii ksiażek o Johnie Shaftcie, czarnoskórym detektywie z Harlemu. Shaft stał się później bohaterem 4 filmów i serialu telewizyjnego, a autorem scenariusza do niektórych z tych produkcji był sam Tidyman. W 1972 zdobył Oscara za scenariusz (adaptację filmową) Francuskiego łącznika. (pl)
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  • Ernest Tidyman (January 1 1928 - July 14 1984) was a Cleveland-born American author and screenwriter, best known for his novels featuring the African-American detective John Shaft. He also co-wrote the film version of Shaft with John D.F. Black in 1971. Tidyman married Susan Gould, and moved off to Connecticut. Susan passed a few years later leaving behind two children, Nick and Adam. (en)
  • Ernest Tidyman (* 1. Januar 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio; † 14. Juli 1984) war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und preisgekrönter Drehbuchautor. Von 1945 bis 1946 war Tidyman bei der U.S. Army. Zwischen 1954 und 1966 arbeitete er als Journalist (zum Beispiel für die New York Post und New York Times). (de)
  • Ernest Tidyman est un scénariste et producteur américain né le 1928 à Cleveland, Ohio (États-Unis), décédé le 14 juillet 1984 des complications d'un ulcère perforé. (fr)
  • Ernest Tidyman (ur. 1 stycznia 1928 w Cleveland, zm. 14 lipca 1984), amerykański pisarz i scenarzysta filmowy. Laureat Oscara. (pl)
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