Director

Allen Rivkin

Writing

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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 48

TMDB ID: 86405

IMDb ID: nm0729694

Known for: Writing

Born: November 20, 1903

Died: February 17, 1990

Age: 86

Place of birth: Hayward, Wisconsin, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1931 - 1959

Years active: 29

Average TMDB rating: 6.76

Wikidata: Q15782459

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Biography

Allen Rivkin (20 November 1903 – 17 February 1990) was an American screenwriter. Rivkin was a advertising copy writer, who went to Hollywood and joined the RKO Pictures publicity department. He formed a film writing team with P. J. Wolfson, who got a writer’s contract on the strength of "Bodies Are Dust". They started at Universal Pictures the same day. Through a luncheon conversation that day decided to collaborate on a story. In less than two years the pair wrote ten screen plays. They later wrote for the B. P. Schulberg company at Paramount Pictures. He was one of the co-founders of the Screenwriters Guild, later the Writers Guild of America. He wrote several of his scripts with his wife, Laura Kerr. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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