Biography
Allen Rivkin (20 November 1903 – 17 February 1990) was an American screenwriter.
Rivkin was a advertising copy writer, who went to Hollywood and ed the RKO Pictures publicity department. He formed a film writing team with P. J. Wolfson, who got a writer’s contract on the strength of "Bodies Are Dust". They started at Universal Pictures the same day. Through a luncheon conversation that day decided to collaborate on a story. In less than two years the pair wrote ten screen plays. They later wrote for the B. P. Schulberg company at Paramount Pictures. He was one of the co-founders of the Screenwriters Guild, later the Writers Guild of America. He wrote several of his scripts with his wife, Laura Kerr.
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Filmography
all 51
Movies 50
Writer 39
Screenplay 6
TV Shows 1
Producer 1
The Troubleshooters (1959)
Girls on the Loose (1958)
The Eternal Sea (1955)
Timberjack (1955)
Prisoner of War (1954)
The Strip (1951)
Gambling House (1950)
Tension (1949)
Dead Reckoning (1946)
Sunday Punch (1942)
Joe Smith, American (1942)
Highway West (1941)
Singapore Woman (1941)
Behind the News (1940)
Typhoon (1940)
Let Us Live (1939)
Love Under Fire (1937)
This Is My Affair (1937)
Love Is News (1937)
Half Angel (1936)
Bad Boy (1935)
Black Sheep (1935)
Our Little Girl (1935)
Dancing Lady (1933)
Meet the Baron (1933)
The Girl in 419 (1933)
The Devil Is Driving (1932)
Is My Face Red? (1932)
Night World (1932)
Are These Our Children? (1931)
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Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1903-11-20
Deathday
1990-02-17 (86 years old)
Birth Place
Hayward, United States
Citizenships
United States
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