Clancy Sigal (born 1926) is an American novelist and screenwriter born in Chicago. He was a part of the Philadelphia Association experiment with R. D. Laing at Kingsley Hall. He was one of several co-writers of the screenplay for the 2002 Salma Hayek film Frida, based on the book Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera. His wife, Janice Tidwell Sigal, is featured in the recent BBC TV series The Trap. He is perhaps best known for his autobiographical novel Going Away (1961). In 2013 he published Hemingway Lives! Why Reading Ernest Hemingway Matters Today.
He was once Peter Lorre's agent, and sometimes claimed that Lorre was one actor who could be as frightening in real life as he was on the screen.
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A former Hollywood agent and writer who was blacklisted in the 1950s. Like other Americans, he went to England, where he found extensive journalistic work and won some celebrity with his novel, "Weekend In Dinlock". A frequent film and television critic for various magazines, he began getting screen-writing credits in the 1990s.
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Frida
2002
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In Love and War
1996
screenplay
Self
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