Curt Siodmak (August 10, 1902–September 2, 2000) was a novelist and screenwriter, author of the novel Donovan's Brain, which was made into a number of films. He also wrote the novels Hauser's Memory and Gabriel's Body. He made a name for himself in Hollywood with horror and science fiction films. He is the brother of noir director Robert Siodmak.
Born Kurt Siodmak in Dresden, Germany to a Polish Jewish family, Curt Siodmak acquired a degree in ma...
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Curt Siodmak (August 10, 1902–September 2, 2000) was a novelist and screenwriter, author of the novel Donovan's Brain, which was made into a number of films. He also wrote the novels Hauser's Memory and Gabriel's Body. He made a name for himself in Hollywood with horror and science fiction films. He is the brother of noir director Robert Siodmak.
Born Kurt Siodmak in Dresden, Germany to a Polish Jewish family, Curt Siodmak acquired a degree in mathematics before beginning to write novels. He invested early royalties earned by his first books in the movie Menschen am Sonntag (1929) a documentary-style chronicle of the lives of four Berliners on a Sunday based on their own lives. The movie was co-directed by Curt Siodmak's older brother Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer, with a script by Billy Wilder in collaboration with Fred Zinneman and cameraman Eugen Schüfftan.
In the following years Curt Siodmak wrote many novels, screenplays and short stories including the novel F.P.1 Antwortet...
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