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Name
  
Stephen Geller

Children
  
Polly Geller

Education
  

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.

Screenplays

  • The Valachi Papers (co-writer) (1972)
  • Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
  • Ashanti (1979)
  • Warburg: A Man of Influence (co-writer) (1992)
  • Mother's Little Helpers (also directed) (2005)
  • Novels

  • She Let Him Continue (1966) (made into the film Pretty Poison (1968)).
  • Pit Bull (1967)
  • Joop's Dance (1969)
  • Feist (2012)
  • Jews on the Moon (2013)
  • Jews Beyond Jupiter (2013)
  • Jews in Black Holes (2013)
  • Jews and the Theories of String (2013)
  • Jews at the Table, Vols 1&2 (the previous four novels, set in two editions) (2013)
  • A Warning of Golems (2013)
  • Martinis at Dawn (2014)
  • Jews in the Bosom of the Big Bang (2014)
  • Nonfiction

  • Screenwriting: A Method (1985)
  • Awards

  • Special Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival, Slaughterhouse-Five;
  • First Hugo Science-Fiction Film Award, Slaughterhouse-Five.
  • European Silver Award for best miniseries, Warburg: A Man of Influence
  • Zoetrope International Internet Film Festival, Cuppa Cabby, Piece O' Pie
  • Connecticut Governor General's Award, "Water Water Everywhere"
  • References

    Stephen Geller Wikipedia


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