Lukas Heller
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Lukas Heller | |
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Born | 21 July 1930 |
Died | 2 November 1988 (age 58) |
Occupation | screenwriter |
Spouse(s) | Caroline Carter |
Children | Bruno Heller Zoë Heller |
Parent(s) | Hermann Heller |
Relatives | Cordelia Heller (half-sister) |
Lukas Heller (21 July 1930 – 2 November 1988) was a German-born screenwriter.
Biography[]
Heller was born to a Jewish family[1] in Kiel. His father was political philosopher Hermann Heller.[2] He was known for writing the screen adaptions for several Robert Aldrich films such as What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) and Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964); for the later film he won an Edgar Award with Henry Farrell, who wrote the source text for both films.
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Heller was married to Caroline (née Carter) who was an English Quaker.[3][4] They had four children: British writers Bruno and Zoë Heller, Lucy Heller, and Emily Heller.[1] His half-sister was the Swedish journalist Cordelia Edvardson.
He died on the 2nd November 1988 and was buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.
Filmography[]
- Never Back Losers (1961)
- (1962)
- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
- Hot Enough for June (1964)
- Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) (with Henry Farrell)
- The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
- The Dirty Dozen (1967) (with Nunnally Johnson)
- The Killing of Sister George (1968) (with Frank Marcus)
- Too Late the Hero (1970) (with Robert Aldrich and Robert Sherman)
- Monte Walsh (1970) (with David Zelag Goodman)
- The Deadly Trackers (1973) (with Samuel Fuller)
- Damnation Alley (1977) (with Alan Sharp)
- (1979) (with Burkhard Driest)
- Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil (1985) (TV)
- Blue City (1986)
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "The Believer". The Guardian. September 29, 2008.
- ^ "WEDDINGS; Miranda Cowley And Bruno Heller". The New York Times. June 20, 1993.
- ^ Nathan, John (24 June 2009). "Two giants of literature — and one big question". The Jewish Chronicle. London. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
- ^ Cohen, Patricia (25 February 2009). "Not Much Sympathy for Zoë Heller's Characters, but a Little Understanding". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
External links[]
- Lukas Heller at IMDb
- 1930 births
- 1988 deaths
- Burials at Highgate Cemetery
- German screenwriters
- Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom
- Mass media people from Kiel
- German male writers
- Male screenwriters
- Film people from Schleswig-Holstein
- 20th-century screenwriters
- Screenwriter stubs