Carl Erickson (screenwriter)

{{short description|American screenwriter}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1908|04|07}}

| birth_place = South Manchester, Connecticut, USA

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1935|08|29|1908|04|07}}

| death_place = Burbank, California, USA

| occupation = Screen Writer

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Carl Erickson (1908–1935) was a film writer.

Erickson was the son of Swedish immigrants, Albert and Ellen Erickson. He grew up in New Haven, Connecticut, where his father worked at the New Haven Wire Mill company.{{Citation needed|date=March 2022}} He lived in Michigan before coming to California, where he worked for as a writer for Warner Bros.,{{Cite news |date=1935-08-30 |title=Film writer found dead as wife seeks divorce |pages=25 |work=The Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97649337/film-writer-found-dead-as-wife-seeks/ |access-date=2022-03-15}} joining during Darryl F. Zanuck's era.{{Cite news |date=May 16, 1933 |title=Follows rules in movie work |pages=3 |work=Gettysburg Times |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bpolAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22Carl+Erickson%22+screenwriter&pg=PA2&article_id=7166,4810679}}

Erickson wrote for films including Stranger in Town (1932), Fashions of 1934, and Black Fury (1935).

He committed suicide in 1935.{{Cite news |date=December 31, 1935 |title=Tragic Year for Film Players Comes to End After Unhappy Record |pages=7 |work=The Evening Independent |location=St. Petersburg, Florida |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m-NPAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22Carl+Erickson%22+screenwriter&pg=PA28&article_id=1757,349479}} Domestic troubles were said to be a contributing factor.{{Cite news |date=August 20, 1935 |title=Writer ends life |pages=2 |work=Spokane Daily Chronicle |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BtRXAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22Carl+Erickson%22+screenwriter&pg=PA36&article_id=5374,7898430}} His wife had established residency in Nevada and was pursuing a divorce.{{Cite news |date=1935-08-30 |title=Carl Erickson, screen writer, kills himself |pages=20 |work=The Shreveport Journal |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97648543/carl-erickson-screen-writer-kills/ |access-date=2022-03-15}}