William Denton (buff@pobox.com)
Fri, 5 Nov 1999 11:30:56 -0500 (EST)
>From the LA Times' web site (no mention of the Paul
Pine books). He died
on 28 October.
Howard
Browne; Movie and TV Screenwriter
Howard Browne, 92, a movie and television screenwriter,
novelist and screenwriting teacher at UC San Diego. Born in
Omaha, the son of a bakery owner, Browne dropped out of high
school and rode the rails to Chicago in the Roaring '20s. He
was a legman for a local newspaper before getting a job as a
department store credit manager. He turned to pulp fiction
writing in 1939 in "an effort to escape from a 9 to 5 desk
job." In 1941 he became a magazine editor at Ziff-Davis
publishing and stayed in that position while writing novels
both under his name and the pseudonym John Evans. Some years
ago, a Times reporter characterized Browne's writing as
"spare, with hard-bitten women, guys with guilty secrets and
dialogue that crackles like your hair during a Santa Ana
windstorm." In Hollywood, Browne wrote the screenplays for
several gangster films, including "Capone," "The St.
Valentine's Day Massacre" and "Portrait of a Mobster." For
television, he wrote scripts for "Columbo," "Mannix," "77
Sunset Strip," "The Fugitive" and "Mission:
Impossible."
Bill
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