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Ben Roberts (International) assertion Ben Roberts i(6439279 works by)
Gender: Male
Heritage: American
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BiographyHistory

American-born script-writer and producer, who collaborated with Ivan Goff for nearly forty years (from World War II until Roberts's death in 1984).

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Notes

  • Ben Roberts is included in AustLit as the long-term writing partner of an Australian writer.

Awards for Works

form y separately published work icon White Heat ( dir. Raoul Walsh ) United States of America (USA) : Warner Brothers , 1949 6441881 1949 single work film/TV crime thriller

'Gangster film/melodrama. A psychopathic criminal, obsessed with his mother, is befriended and betrayed by an undercover policeman whom he meets in jail.'

Source: British Film Institute (http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/57918). (Sighted: 17/9/2013)
1950 nominated Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award — Best Motion Picture Virginia Kellogg was also included in this nomination.
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