Director

Irwin Shaw

Writing

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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 34

TMDB ID: 106607

IMDb ID: nm0789758

Known for: Writing

Born: February 27, 1913

Died: May 16, 1984

Age: 71

Place of birth: The Bronx, New York, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1936 - 2005

Years active: 70

Average TMDB rating: 6.46

Wikidata: Q315380

Also known as

Ирвин Шоу

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Novel (10)Screenplay (8)Writer (7)Short Story (3)Story (3)Book (1)Characters (1)Theatre Play (1)

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Biography

Irwin Shaw (February 27, 1913 – May 16, 1984) was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies. He is best known for two of his novels: The Young Lions (1948), about the fate of three soldiers during World War II, which was made into a film of the same name starring Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift, and Rich Man, Poor Man (1970), about the fate of two brothers and a sister in the post-World War II decades,[1] which in 1976 was made into a popular miniseries starring Peter Strauss, Nick Nolte, and Susan Blakely.

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