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Name
  
Robert Campbell


Role
  
Screenwriter

Died
  
September 21, 2000, Monterey, California, United States

Books
  
The Junkyard Dog, Hip-deep in alligators

Siblings
  
William Campbell, Robert Campbell

Awards
  
Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original, Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original

Movies
  
The Masque of the Red, Five Guns West, Hells Angels on Wheels, Teenage Cave Man, The Secret Invasion

Similar People
  
William Campbell, Jonathan Haze, Floyd Crosby, Charles Beaumont, Ivan Goff

Robert Wright Campbell (June 9, 1927 in Newark, New Jersey – September 21, 2000 in Monterey), often credited as R. Wright Campbell, was an American screenwriter, author and occasional actor. He was the brother of actor William Campbell and brother in law of Judith Campbell Exner.

Biography

Campbell studied painting at Brooklyn's Pratt Institute then was drafted into the US Army during the Korean War. When he asked his brother William how much he earned for acting, he went to Hollywood after his discharge.

Campbell began writing for anthology series such as Loretta Young Theatre and Warner Bros. Television westerns such as Maverick and Bronco. Through his brother William, Campbell met Roger Corman and wrote several screenplays for him beginning with Five Guns West (1955). He received an Academy Award nomination for his screenplay Man of a Thousand Faces, the biography of Lon Chaney.

Campbell left screenwriting and turned to novels after visiting Carmel, California where he moved to. His first novel was The Spy Who Sat and Waited. He wrote several novels of Los Angeles that he called "La-La Land" with a hero named James Whistler in Alice in La-La Land and In La-La Land We Trust, a series of Jimmy Flannery novels beginning with The Junkyard Dog (awarded the Edgar Award and Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original) and two Jake Hatch novels.

References

Robert Wright Campbell Wikipedia