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Howard E. Koch (December 12, 1901 – August 17, 1995) was an American playwright and screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood film studio bosses in the 1950s.
Playwright and author of sophisticated screenplays, a graduate of Bard College and Columbia University Law School. Howard Koch started out as a practicing lawyer in Hartsdale, New Jersey, but soon found himself dissatisfied with his career choice and began to write plays on the side.
- Writer, Actor, Producer
- December 12, 1901
- Howard Koch
- August 17, 1995
Howard Winchel Koch (April 11, 1916 – February 16, 2001) was an American producer and director of film and television.
Aug 18, 1995 · Howard Koch, a Hollywood screenwriter who won an Academy Award as one of the authors of the film "Casablanca," died yesterday at Kingston Hospital in Kingston, N.Y. He was 93 and lived in...
Aug 18, 1995 · Screenwriter Howard Koch, who penned the landmark 1938 radio program “War of the Worlds” and shared an Academy Award in 1942 for co-writing the Humphrey Bogart classic “Casablanca” only to...
Howard W. Koch. Producer: The Manchurian Candidate. Getting his start in the movie business in Universal's contract and playdate department in New York City, Howard W. Koch moved on to 20th Century-Fox as a film librarian and then entered production as second assistant director on The Keys of the Kingdom (1944).
Legendary Hollywood screenwriter Howard Koch was one of the great screenwriters of Hollywood's golden age. Among his best-known films are The Seahawk, In This Our Life, and Letter from an Unknown Woman.
