Peter Shaffer

Peter Shaffer - English playwright and screenwriter. His most famous works are "Equus" and "Amadeus". His full name is Peter Levin Shaffer.

Phillip Epstein

Phillip Epstein - Top Hollywood screenwriter and twin brother of his collaborator, Julius Epstein. Together they wrote (among others) such good films as "Mr. Skeffington", "Arsenic and Old Lace", and "Four Wives". The Epstein Bros. shared the Oscar with Howard Koch for "Casablanca". Phillips son is the well-known novelist and essayist Leslie Epstein.

Quinn Martin

Quinn Martin - Well, this is surprise. But we have very good information that this famous producer of action television programs was Jewish and his birth name was Marty Cohen. Martin was the executive producer of such hits as "The Fugitive", "Cannon", "The FBI", and "The Streets of San Francisco". He invented the technique of having a cliffhanger ending with a quick cut to a commercial.

Richard Price

Richard Price - Novelist and top Hollywood screenwriter. Novels "Bloodbrothers", "The Wanderers", and "Clockers" turned into films. Screenplay for "Clockers", "Sea of Love", "The Color of Money", and others.

Robert Evans

Robert Evans - Producer and studio executive who was incredibly hot in the late 70s with "Marathon Man", "Chinatown", etc. Major drug habit put his career on the skids, but he has managed a minor comeback in recent years.

Robert Riskin

Robert Riskin - Screenwriter of the Frank Capra classics "It Happened One Night", "Meet John Doe", and "Mr. Deeds Goes To Town". Was reportedly peeved that Capra often depicted himself as doing everything on Capra films.

Rod Serling

Rod Serling - Playwright, television writer, and producer, "Requiem For a Heavyweight" and, of course, "The Twilight Zone". He was the winner of six Emmy awards, three of which were awarded before "Twilight Zone". Many of the military-oriented "Twilight Zone" episodes are based on Serlings experience as a highly decorated WWII paratrooper. In a truely "Twilight Zone" episode, he shot and killed a Japanese soldier who was standing on third base in a Phillipine baseball stadium.

Roger Corman

Roger Corman - Producer and director of almost legendary status. In the 50s and 60s, Corman directed many classic low budget horror or action films, incl. "Little Shop of Horrors" and the Vincent Price films taken from the works of Poe. He also gave talented actors and up and coming directors their start in the business. Among others: Scorcese; Jonathan Demme; Francis Coppola. Since 1971, he has limited himself to producing. Father, Jewish. Mother, not. Not raised Jewish.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - German Jewish novelist and screenwriter who has won two Oscars for screenwriting ("Howards End" and "A Room With a View").

Sam Spiegel

Sam Spiegel - Producer of good taste. Spiegel produced a limited number of films, but three times won the Oscar as the producer of the best picture ("Lawrence of Arabia", "On the Waterfront", and "Bridge on the River Kwai"). Also produced "The African Queen" and "The Last Tycoon". He established a school of television and film production in Jerusalem. His brother, Shalom Spiegel, was an expert in medieval Jewish poetry at the Jewish Theological Seminary. The brothers both died, in their mid-80s, in the early 1990s. In 1998, Sams estate gave a million dollars to the Seminary to establish the Spiegel Institute for the study of medieval Jewish poetry.