Actors who are/were also writers

Actors who are/were also writers Apr 22, 2017 4:44:41 GMT spiderwort likes this

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Post by Richard Kimble on Apr 22, 2017 4:44:41 GMT

Apr 22, 2017 4:24:14 GMT spiderwort said:

with a few exceptions I wouldn't consider these to be serious career writers - more like vanity projects, as you say, or one-offs, as I might say. And unless a writer has a serious career already in place, I don't put much stock into a "story by" credit.

I didn't mean to imply everyone I listed was involved in a vanity project. I would use that term to describe Anthony Newley's Hieronymous Merkin or Richard Pryor's Jo Jo Dancer (Pryor has at least one other credit of course -- Blazing Saddles).

Thunder Road was a very personal project for Mitchum; we can debate if it was "vanity". He co-produced, co-wrote the story, and co-wrote the theme song -- the music is based on a Norwegian folk song his Norwegian mother sang to him as a child.