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Christopher Knopf (December 20, 1927 – February 13, 2019) was an American screenwriter and union executive. He served as the president of the Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) and the International Affiliation of Writers Guilds (IAWG).
Feb 15, 2019 · Christopher Knopf, the prolific screenwriter behind 'Emperor of the North,' '20 Million Miles to Earth' and a host of TV Westerns in the 1950s and '60s, has died. He was 91.
Christopher Knopf was born on 20 December 1927 in New York, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1959), CBS Summer Playhouse (1987) and Scott Joplin (1977).
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Christopher Knopf was born on December 20, 1927 in New York, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Scott Joplin (1977), CBS Summer Playhouse (1987) and The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1959).
- December 20, 1927
- February 13, 2019
- If You Love Old Typewriters, You Will Love This Movie.
- She’S A Little Livelier in This one.
- The Coen Brothers Are Not Exactly This Generation’S John Ford.
- Christopher Knopf: An Appreciation.
Can You Ever Forgive Me?(2018. Screenplay by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty, based on the memoir by Lee Israel. 106 minutes) Lee Israel was a successful biographer (of Tallulah Bankhead and Dorothy Kilgallen) until she wasn’t. Her biography of cosmetic magnate Estee Lauder bombed big time and Israel was out of work. She made a little money selli...
Miss Bala (2019. Screenplay by Garth Dunnet-Alocer, “based on the Spanish language film” as the credits in this film, which lists no names, have it. The writers of that 2011 film were Gerardo Naranjo and Mauricio Katz, who need to get tougher agents. 104 minutes) In the original Mexican film, the heroine is Laura. She goes to a beauty contest tryou...
The Ballad of Lester Scruggs(2018. Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen; Segment “All Gold Canyon” based on a story by Jack London, Segment “The Gal Who Got Rattled” inspired by a story by Stewart Edward White. 133 minutes) You may not have thought of the Coen brothers as the makers of westerns, but look again at their films. Blood Simple (1983) and N...
You may not recognize the name Christopher Knopf, but if you have watched American television from the 1950s to the early 1990s you probably saw something he wrote and/or produced. He died on February 13, 2019. His father was Edwin Knopf, a producer and director at MGM, and Christopher wrote his first produced screenplay for MGM in 1955. It was a s...
Prolific Emmy-nominated television writer Christopher Edwin Knopf, former president of the Writers Guild of America West, died in his sleep of congestive heart failure on Feb. 13. He was 91.
Feb 15, 2019 · Christopher Knopf, the former president of the Writers Guild of America West, died on Wednesday at age 91 of congestive heart failure.
