Name Bruce Friedman Role Novelist | Spouse Patricia J. O'Donohue Plays Steambath | |
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Born April 26, 1930 (age 94) ( 1930-04-26 ) Bronx, New York, U.S. Occupation novelist, screenwriter, playwright, actor Movies Splash, The Heartbreak Kid, Stir Crazy, Doctor Detroit Children Drew Friedman, Josh Alan Friedman, Molly Friedman, Kipp Friedman Books Lucky Bruce: A Literary M, A mother's kisses, Scuba Duba, The collected short ficti, About Harry Towns Similar People Josh Alan Friedman, Babaloo Mandel, Lowell Ganz, Drew Friedman, Brian Grazer | ||
Bruce jay friedman reveals a life lived well interview
Bruce Jay Friedman (born April 26, 1930) is an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor.
Contents
- Bruce jay friedman reveals a life lived well interview
- Theater talk bruce jay friedman on his memoir lucky bruce
- Life and career
- Novels
- Short fiction
- Filmography
- Plays
- Non fiction
- References
Theater talk bruce jay friedman on his memoir lucky bruce
Life and career
Friedman was born to a Jewish family and raised in the Bronx, the son of Irving and Mollie (Liebowitz) Friedman. He graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School. He then attended the University of Missouri as a journalism major, then served as a First Lieutenant in the United States Air Force from 1951 to 1953. In 1954, he married the model (now an acting coach and writer) Ginger Howard. In the same year, Friedman worked for many of the era's famous men's magazines through Magazine Management Company. Friedman ended up as an executive editor in charge of the magazines Men (not the present magazine of the same title), Male, and Man's World.
In 1962, Friedman published Stern, the first of his eight novels. In 1988, he appeared in Woody Allen's film Another Woman. His latest collection of short fiction, Three Balconies, appeared in September 2008, from Biblioasis, who also published his 2011 memoir Lucky Bruce. A collection of four plays [Scuba Duba, Steambath, Sardines and The Trial], in a collection titled "3.1 Plays," was published in January 2012 by Leaping Lion Books.
Friedman had three children with his first wife, actress and teacher Ginger Howard, with whom he split in 1978: writer, musician Josh Alan Friedman, cartoonist Drew Friedman, and photographer Kipp Friedman. He has one daughter—writer Molly Friedman—with second wife Patricia J. O'Donohue. Friedman currently resides in New York City.
Novels
