Stephen Geller

Stephen Geller

Nacimiento : 1940-01-01, Los Angeles, California, USA

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Stephen D. Geller (born 1940 in Los Angeles, California) is an American screenwriter and novelist. He wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five, and has worked in the film industry in Hollywood and Europe. Geller recently directed his own independent feature titled Mother's Little Helpers. Geller grew up in Hollywood during the 1940s and 1950s. His father, a musician and arranger for CBS, was subpoenaed by the House Committee on Un-American Activities in the '50s, forcing the family to move to Paris, France. Educated at Dartmouth College and Yale University, Geller moved to Rome, Italy from 1969 to 1979 to work for the Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis, where he wrote the screenplay for The Valachi Papers and other films. Rome became his home for the next 16 years. He worked in the Italian, French, British and independent film industries. He also commuted to Los Angeles and wrote for every major studio during this period. In 1986, he returned to Hollywood, working there for a time, but leaving to found screenwriting programs at Arizona State University and at Boston University. His screenwriting credits, in addition to Slaughterhouse-Five, include Ashanti, The Valachi Papers, and Warburg: A Man of Influence, and "Mother's Little Helpers." In 1997, Geller directed, co-wrote and acted in the play Opportunities in Zero Gravity with Kae Geller, his writing partner and wife. This two-actor, seven-character play thematically wove monologues around popular cultural mythology, capitalism, and the pursuit of the American Dream. Aside from screenwriting, he has published 11 novels and a book on screenwriting, written several plays, and directed both theater and film. He currently teaches Shakespeare, satire, and the personal essay at Savannah College of Art and Design. His most recent novel is 'Jews in Dark Matter.' His most recent non-fiction book is 'Sabbath-on-Swathe,' an 'author-ized' autobiography. Source: Article "Stephen Geller" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Stephen Geller

Películas

Pretty Poison
Pretty Poison
Novel
A clueless cheerleader falls for a mysterious young man who tells her he's a secret agent. But the truth is much simpler and darker.
Ashanti
Ashanti
Screenplay
David y Anansa son un matrimonio de médicos que trabaja en un programa de investigación científica en un pequeño pueblo de África. Inesperadamente, ella desaparece, pero la policía no se esfuerza demasiado por encontrarla. Al parecer, ha sido secuestrada por Suleiman, un traficante de esclavos, para ser vendida a un príncipe árabe. Al no poder contar con las autoridades locales, que niegan la existencia de tal traficante, David busca la ayuda de organizaciones ilegales; entonces se verá envuelto en un sombrío mundo donde los rescatadores son tan despiadados como los traficantes de esclavos.
Matadero Cinco
Matadero Cinco
Screenplay
Billy Pilgrim, un veterano de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, se encuentra a sí mismo misteriosamente desligado del tiempo, de modo que es capaz de viajar, sin que pueda evitarlo, desde los días de su infancia a aquellos de su peculiar vida en un lejano planeta llamado Tralfamadore, pasando por su amarga experiencia como prisionero de guerra en la ciudad alemana de Dresde, sobre la que se cierne la sombra inevitable de una tragedia inenarrable.
Los secretos de la Cosa Nostra
Los secretos de la Cosa Nostra
Screenplay
La mafia neoyorquina se ve amenazada por Joe Valachi, el primer arrepentido de la "Cosa Nostra". El antiguo gángster se ha convertido en el principal testigo en un juicio que será retransmitido por televisión a todo el país. Delante de las cámaras, Valachi contará su vida dentro de la organización criminal.
Un maravilloso veneno
Un maravilloso veneno
Novel
Un joven psicótico sale de la cárcel después de cumplir condena por complicidad en un asesinato y se dirige hasta un pequeño pueblo. Una vez allí conoce a una joven escolar de apariencia normal pero que al poco tiempo resulta ser peor que él.