Bernard Schubert
{{short description|American screenwriter, playwright, television producer}}
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| name = Bernard Schubert
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1895|1|1}}
| birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, United States
| death_date = {{death date and age|1988|8|4|1895|1|1}}
| death_place = Los Angeles, California, United States
| birthname =
| occupation = Producer and screenwriter
| spouse =
| yearsactive = 1931–1959
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Bernard Schubert (January 1, 1895 – August 4, 1988) was an American screenwriter and television producer during the early sound era of film and early days of television.
A native New Yorker, Schubert attended the University of Pennsylvania for one year before he began working.{{cite news |last1=Meltzer |first1=Allen |title=Radio: The Commercial Viewpoint |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1950/07/16/archives/radio-the-commercial-viewpoint-host.html |access-date=December 25, 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=July 16, 1950 |page=X 9|url-access=subscription }}
From 1931 through 1948 he was involved in the scripts for 25 films.{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/SearchResult.aspx?s=&Type=WP&Tbl=PN&CatID=&ID=19481&searchedFor=Bernard_Schubert&SortType=ASC&SortCol=RELEASE_YEAR | publisher=American Film Institute | title=Bernard Schubert | accessdate=January 29, 2015}} Two of his more notable films were Peck's Bad Boy (1934), for which he co-wrote the screenplay with Marguerite Roberts, and which starred Jackie Cooper;{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=6359 | publisher=American Film Institute | title=Peck's Bad Boy | accessdate=January 29, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150123180937/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=6359 | archivedate=January 23, 2015}} and 1944's The Mummy's Curse, starring Lon Chaney Jr.{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=24084 | publisher=American Film Institute | title=The Mummy's Curse | accessdate=January 29, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140422171223/http://afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=24084 | archivedate=April 22, 2014}} In the late 1940s, he wrote several plays, two of which were turned into films.{{cite web | url=http://www.allmovie.com/artist/bernard-schubert-p110393 | publisher=AllMovie | title=Bernard Schubert, biography | accessdate=January 29, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150130013732/http://www.allmovie.com/artist/bernard-schubert-p110393 | archivedate=January 30, 2015}} By the early 1950s, Schubert moved to the small screen, producing television series and movies during that decade. Some of the series he worked on were Mr. and Mrs. North, Topper, and Adventures of the Falcon.
Schubert died on August 4, 1988, in Los Angeles, California.{{cite web | url=http://www.omnilexica.com/?q=Bernard+Schubert | publisher=Omnilexica | title=Bernard Schubert | accessdate=January 29, 2015 }}
Filmography
(as screenwriter - Per AFI database)
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- Symphony of Six Million (1932)
- No Other Woman (1933)
- Straight Is the Way (1934)
- Peck's Bad Boy (1934)
- The Band Plays On (1934)
- Mark of the Vampire (1935)
- Kind Lady (1935)
- Hearts in Bondage (1936)
- The Barrier (1937)
- Make a Wish (1937)
- Breaking the Ice (1938)
- Fisherman's Wharf (1939)
- Scattergood Pulls the Strings (1941)
- Silver Queen (1942)
- Jungle Woman (1944)
- The Mummy's Curse (1945)
- The Frozen Ghost (1945)
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References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0775770}}
- {{tcmdb name|208919}}
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Category:American male screenwriters
Category:20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
Category:Television producers from New York City
Category:Writers from Brooklyn
Category:Screenwriters from New York City
Category:American male dramatists and playwrights