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Howard Oliver Sackler (December 19, 1929 – October 12, 1982) was an American screenwriter and playwright who is best known for having written The Great White Hope (play: 1967; film: 1970). The Great White Hope enjoyed both a successful run on Broadway and, as a film adaptation, in movie theaters.
Oct 15, 1982 · Howard Sackler, who won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for drama for ''The Great White Hope'' was found dead yesterday morning in his studio in Ibiza, Spain, where he lived most of the...
Oct 23, 2017 · Patrick Radden Keefe on how the Sackler family and its firm, Purdue Pharma, ruthlessly marketed painkillers to generate billions of dollars—and millions of opioid addicts.
The Great White Hope is a 1967 play written by Howard Sackler, later adapted in 1970 for a film of the same name. The play was first produced by Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., and debuted on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre in October 1968, directed by Edwin Sherin with James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander in the lead roles.
Howard Sackler was born on 19 December 1929 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Jaws 2 (1978), The Great White Hope (1970) and Fear and Desire (1952). He was married to Greta Lynn Lundgren. He died on 12 October 1982 in Ibiza, Spain.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY. Howard Sackler was born on December 19,1929, in New York City, although he spent much of his early childhood in Florida. He attended Brooklyn College, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1950. He began his writing career as a poet under the guidance of W. H. Auden.
Howard Sackler is the author of Julius Caesar (3.70 avg rating, 206245 ratings, 6885 reviews, published 1599), Cyrano de Bergerac (4.06 avg rating, 85136...
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Sackler, Howard 1929–. Sackler is an American dramatist and screenwriter whose best-known play, The Great White Hope, explores race relations in a dramatization of the tragic but...
In The Great White Hope. …Great White Hope, play by Howard Sackler, later adapted as a film, loosely based on the life of turn-of-the-century African American boxer Jack Johnson. The title refers to the hopes some fans had for a white boxer to end Johnson’s reign as heavyweight champion and is a symbol of racism….
