Playwright, screenwriter, essayist, raconteur and consummate wit, Samuel Nathaniel Behrman became known as Broadway's pre-eminent author of sophisticated high comedy. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, the son of a devout Jewish grocer, he grew up in fairly impoverished circumstances. He attended Clark College from 1912, but was suspended two years...
June 9, 1893, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Died
September 9, 1973, New York City, New York, United States
Place Of Birth
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Height
5' 8½" (1.74 m)
Profession
Writer
Education
Columbia University, Harvard University
Star Sign
Gemini
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[on the Gershwin brothers] If George was streamlined and propulsive, Ira was reserved and scholarly. He was gently humorous. One sensed in Ira, even at the very center of involvement, a well of detachment. George gave you everything at once; he was boyish, with an extraordinarily sweet character. He wanted his listeners to participate in the excitement of his own development.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Celanese Theatre
1951-1952
TV Series story - 2 episodes
Quo Vadis
1951
screen play
The Prudential Family Playhouse
1950
TV Series play - 1 episode
Kraft Theatre
1948
TV Series playwright - 1 episode
The Pirate
1948
play
Two-Faced Woman
1941
original screenplay
No Time for Comedy
1940
from the stage play by
Waterloo Bridge
1940
screen play
Love Affair
1939
contributor to screenplay - uncredited
The Cowboy and the Lady
1938
screen play
Conquest
1937
Parnell
1937
screen play
A Tale of Two Cities
1935
screen play
Anna Karenina
1935
dialogue adaptation
The Lottery Lover
1935
contributor to screenplay construction - uncredited
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
1935
play "Biography"
The Scarlet Pimpernel
1934
scenario, continuity & dialogue - as Sam Bermann
As Husbands Go
1934
Queen Christina
1933
dialogue
My Lips Betray
1933
dialogue
Brief Moment
1933
play
Hallelujah I'm a Bum
1933
adaptation
Tess of the Storm Country
1932
screenplay
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1932
Surrender
1931
The Brat
1931
Daddy Long Legs
1931
additional dialogue
The Man Who Came Back
1931
contributing writer - uncredited
Lightnin'
1930
adaptation / dialogue
Liliom
1930
screenplay and dialogue
The Sea Wolf
1930
dialogue
He Knew Women
1930
play "The Second Man"
Fanny
1961
play
Ben-Hur
1959
contributing writer - uncredited
ITV Play of the Week
1959
TV Series play - 1 episode
Me and the Colonel
1958
play: American version / screenplay
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre
TV Series play - 2 episodes, 1954 - 1957 playwright - 1 episode, 1958
Television World Theatre
1958
TV Series english adaptation - 1 episode
Matinee Theatre
1957
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Fanny
1956
TV Movie play
Gaby
1956
earlier screenplay
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
Documentary acknowledgment: the non-musical sequences represent outstanding contributions by
$13 Million
