Robert Rossen

About

Robert Rossen (March 16, 1908 – February 18, 1966) was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer whose film career spanned almost three decades. His 1949 film All the King's Men won Oscars for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress, while Rossen was nominated for an Oscar as Best Director. He won the Golden Globe for Best Director and the film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture. In 1961 he made The Hustler, which was nominated for nine Oscars and won two. Rossen was nominated as Best Director and with Sidney Carroll for Best Adapted Screenplay but did not win either award. After directing and writing for the stage in New York, Rossen moved to Hollywood in 1937. There he worked as a screenwriter for Warner Bros. until 1941, and then interrupted his career to serve until 1944 as the chairman of the Hollywood Writers Mobilization Against the War, a body to organize...

Known for

All the King's MenMovie • 1949Marked WomanMovie • 1937The Roaring TwentiesMovie • 1939The HustlerMovie • 1961Alexander the GreatMovie • 1956The Strange Love of Martha IversMovie • 1946They Came to CorduraMovie • 1959The Sea WolfMovie • 1941Edge of DarknessMovie • 1943Body and SoulMovie • 1947A Walk in the SunMovie • 1945The Undercover ManMovie • 1949Desert FuryMovie • 1947They Won't ForgetMovie • 1937LilithMovie • 1964Island in the SunMovie • 1957Out of the FogMovie • 1941Johnny O'ClockMovie • 1947Dust Be My DestinyMovie • 1939Blues in the NightMovie • 1941The Cool WorldMovie • 1964