Name Stephen Geller Children Polly Geller Education Dartmouth College | Parents Harry Geller Role Screenwriter Books Screenwriting: A Method | |
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Movies Slaughterhouse‑Five, Pretty Poison, The Valachi Papers Similar People Kurt Vonnegut, George Roy Hill, Michael Sacks, Noel Black, Lorenzo Semple - Jr | ||
Pretty Poison 1968 TV trailer
Stephen Geller (b. Los Angeles, California) is an American screenwriter and novelist. He wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five, and has worked in the film industry in Hollywood and Europe. Geller recently directed his own independent feature, Mother's Little Helpers.
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Educated at Dartmouth College and Yale University, Geller moved to Rome, Italy in 1969–79 to work for the Italian producer, Dino De Laurentiis, where he wrote the screenplay for The Valachi Papers, among other films. Rome became his home for the next sixteen years. He worked in the Italian, French, British and independent film industries. He also commuted to LA, and wrote for every major studio during that period. Eventually, in 1986, he returned to Hollywood, working there for a time, but leaving eventually to found screenwriting programs at Arizona State University, and at the Boston University College of Communication.
His screenwriting credits, in addition to Slaughterhouse-Five, include Ashanti, The Valachi Papers, and Warburg: A Man of Influence.
Aside from screenwriting, he has also published eleven novels and a book on screenwriting, has written several plays, and has directed both theater and film. He currently teaches Shakespeare Appreciation, satire, and the personal essay at Savannah College of Art and Design. His most recent novel is A Warning of Golems.