Life and career

Paul Monash was born in Harlem

Harlem

Harlem is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, which since the 1920s has been a major African-American residential, cultural and business center. Originally a Dutch village, formally organized in 1658, it is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands...

, New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

, in 1917, and grew up in The Bronx

The Bronx

The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City. It is also known as Bronx County, the last of the 62 counties of New York State to be incorporated...

. His mother, Rhoda Melrose, acted in silent films. Monash earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin–Madison

University of Wisconsin–Madison

The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became a land-grant institution in 1866...

 and a master's degree in education from Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

. An aspiring novelist, he rode the rails across the United States, served in the merchant marine

United States Merchant Marine

The United States Merchant Marine refers to the fleet of U.S. civilian-owned merchant vessels, operated by either the government or the private sector, that engage in commerce or transportation of goods and services in and out of the navigable waters of the United States. The Merchant Marine is...

, lived as an expatriate in Paris and studied art.

Monash won early acclaim for his writing for television, including his work on the pioneer anthology series Studio One, Suspense

Suspense (US TV series)

Suspense is an American television anthology series that ran on CBS Television from 1949 to 1954. It was adapted from the radio program of the same name which ran from 1942 to 1962. Like many early television programs, the show was broadcast live from New York City...

 and Playhouse 90

Playhouse 90

Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology series that was telecast on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes. It originated from CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California...

. He received an Emmy Award

Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...

 for "The Lonely Wizard," a 1957 episode of Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, is a weekly CBS anthology television series, was telecast on Friday nights from 1951 until 1959. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by Schlitz beer...

 that starred Rod Steiger

Rod Steiger

Rodney Stephen "Rod" Steiger was an Academy Award-winning American actor known for his performances in such films as On the Waterfront, The Big Knife, Oklahoma!, The Harder They Fall, Across the Bridge, The Pawnbroker, Doctor Zhivago, In the Heat of the Night, and Waterloo as well as the...

. Monash wrote and produced the pilot for the TV series The Untouchables

The Untouchables (1959 TV series)

The Untouchables is an American crime drama that ran from 1959 to 1963 on ABC. Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalized the experiences of Eliot Ness, a real-life Prohibition agent, as he fought crime in Chicago during the 1930s with the help of a...

 (1959), shown in two parts on Desilu Playhouse

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958 and 1960...

 and edited as a feature film for distribution in Europe. He also wrote some episodes of the 1958-1959 NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

 docudrama

Docudrama

In film, television programming and staged theatre, docudrama is a documentary-style genre that features dramatized re-enactments of actual historical events. As a neologism, the term is often confused with docufiction....

 about the Cold War

Cold War

The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...

, Behind Closed Doors

Behind Closed Doors (1958 TV series)

Behind Closed Doors is an American drama series set during the Cold War hosted by and occasionally starring Bruce Gordon in the role of Commander Matson. The series, which aired on NBC from October 2, 1958, to April 9, 1959, focuses, among other themes, on how the former Soviet Union stole American...

, hosted and starring Bruce Gordon

Bruce Gordon (actor)

Bruce Gordon was an American actor best known for playing Frank Nitti in the ABC television series The Untouchables....

.

After the success of The Untouchables, Monash was asked to create Peyton Place

Peyton Place (TV series)

Peyton Place is an American prime-time soap opera which aired on ABC in half-hour episodes from September 15, 1964 to June 2, 1969.Based upon the 1956 novel of the same name by Grace Metalious, the series was preceded by a 1957 film adaptation. A total of 514 episodes were broadcast, in...

 (1964–1969), an ABC

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

-TV series that was the first prime-time serialized drama on American television.

His film production credits include Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman...

 (1969), Slaughterhouse-Five

Slaughterhouse-Five (film)

Slaughterhouse-Five is a 1972 film based on Kurt Vonnegut's novel of the same name. The screenplay is by Stephen Geller and the film was directed by George Roy Hill. It stars Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, and Valerie Perrine, and features Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Holly Near, and Perry King. The...

 (1972), The Front Page

The Front Page (1974 film)

The Front Page is a 1974 American comedy-drama film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. The screenplay by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on the 1928 play of the same title by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, which was previously adapted for the screen under its...

 (1974) and Carrie (1976). Monash produced the feature film The Friends of Eddie Coyle

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

This is an article about the movie. For information about George V. Higgins' 1970 novel, go to The Friends of Eddie Coyle .The Friends of Eddie Coyle is a 1973 crime film starring Robert Mitchum and Peter Boyle. Directed by Peter Yates, the screenplay was adapted from the novel by George V. Higgins...

 (1973), a dark, critically acclaimed crime drama starring Robert Mitchum

Robert Mitchum

Robert Charles Durman Mitchum was an American film actor, author, composer and singer and is #23 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male American screen legends of all time...

, and also adapted the George V. Higgins

George V. Higgins

George V. Higgins was a United States author, lawyer, newspaper columnist, and college professor. He is best known for his bestselling crime novels. His full name was George Vincent Higgins, but his books were all published as by George V. Higgins. ACtually, his full name was George V...

 novel

The Friends of Eddie Coyle (novel)

The Friends of Eddie Coyle, published in 1970, was the debut novel of George V. Higgins, then an Assistant United States Attorney in Boston.The novel is a realistic depiction of the Irish-American underworld in Boston...

 for the screen.

Monash wrote the 1979 CBS

CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

-TV adaption of All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front (1979 film)

All Quiet on the Western Front is a television movie produced by ITC Entertainment, released on November 14, 1979, starring actors Richard Thomas from The Waltons fame as Paul Baumer, and Ernest Borgnine as Katczinsky...

, a Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The second longest-running television program in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2011...

 production that received a Golden Globe Award

Golden Globe Award

The Golden Globe Award is an accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign...

 for Best Motion Picture Made for Television. His screenplay for the HBO film Stalin

Stalin (1992 film)

Stalin is a 1992 television film, produced for HBO, starring Robert Duvall portraying Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. The film won three Golden Globe Awards among various awards including cinematography awards for Vilmos Zsigmond...

 (1992) was nominated for an Emmy Award; and Monash received the Humanitas Prize

Humanitas Prize

The Humanitas Prize is an award for film and television writing intended to promote human dignity, meaning, and freedom. It began in 1974 with Father Ellwood "Bud" Kieser — also the founder of Paulist Productions — but is generally not seen as specifically directed toward religious...

 for his teleplay for the TNT

Turner Network Television

Turner Network Television is an American cable television channel created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner...

 film George Wallace

George Wallace (film)

George Wallace is a 1997 television film starring Gary Sinise as George Wallace, the former Governor of Alabama. It was directed by John Frankenheimer, who won an Emmy award for it; Sinise and Mare Winningham also won Emmies for their performances...

 (1997).

His final credit was the A&E Network

A&E Network

The A&E Network is a United States-based cable and satellite television network with headquarters in New York City and offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, London, Los Angeles and Stamford. A&E also airs in Canada and Latin America. Initially named the Arts & Entertainment Network, A&E launched...

 original film, The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery

The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery

The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery is a made-for-television film based on the 1953 novel by Rex Stout. Set in 1950s Manhattan, the A&E Network production stars Maury Chaykin as the heavyweight detective genius Nero Wolfe, and Timothy Hutton as Wolfe's assistant, Archie Goodwin, narrator of...

 (2000), a critically praised adaption of the Rex Stout

Rex Stout

Rex Todhunter Stout was an American writer noted for his detective fiction. Stout is best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe, described by reviewer Will Cuppy as "that Falstaff of detectives." Wolfe's assistant Archie Goodwin recorded the cases of the...

 novel

The Golden Spiders

The Golden Spiders is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout. It was first published in 1953 by The Viking Press.-Plot introduction:...

. The TV movie first aired March 5, 2000, the same day that the Writers Guild of America, west

Writers Guild of America, west

Writers Guild of America, West is a labor union representing film, television, radio, and new media writers. The Guild was formed in 1954 from five organizations representing writers, which include the Screen Writers Guild...

, presented the 83-year-old Monash with the Paddy Chayefsky award for lifetime achievement. It is the guild's highest award, given to writers who have "advanced the literature of television through the years."

Paul Monash died of pancreatic cancer January 14, 2003, in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

.

Writer

• Foreign Intrigue
  Foreign Intrigue
  Foreign Intrigue is a 1951 television series produced in Europe by Sheldon Reynolds The 30-minute series ran for 156 episodes over four seasons...
  
   (TV)

"Berlin to Frankfurt" (1952)

"The Radio Message" (1952)

"Sun Lamp" (1952)

" The Living Corpse" (1952)

"The Perfect Plan" (1952)

• Atom Squad
  Atom Squad
  Atom Squad was a live science-fiction 15-minute TV series broadcast by the NBC network, July 6, 1953 to January 22, 1954, Monday-Friday, 5:00 to 5:15 PM EST....
  
   (1953)
• Suspense
  Suspense (US TV series)
  Suspense is an American television anthology series that ran on CBS Television from 1949 to 1954. It was adapted from the radio program of the same name which ran from 1942 to 1962. Like many early television programs, the show was broadcast live from New York City...
  
   (TV)

"Needle in a Haystack" (1953)

"The Man Who Wouldn't Talk" (1954)

• Operation Manhunt (1954)
• Danger (TV)

"Last Stop Before Albany" (1953)

"Return Flight" (1953)

"Five Minutes to Die" (1953)

"Cornered" (1954)

"Menace from the East (1954)

• Studio One (TV)

"Stan, the Killer" (1952)

"Blow Up at Cortland" (1955)

• Climax! (TV)

"Sailor on Horseback" (1955)

"Bailout at 43,000 Feet" (1955)

• Big Town
  Big Town
  Big Town is a popular long-running radio drama series which was later adapted to both film and television and a comic book published by DC Comics.-Radio:...
  
   (TV)

"Hung Jury" (1956)

• Colonel March of Scotland Yard
  Colonel March of Scotland Yard
  Colonel March of Scotland Yard is a 1950s British television series based on author John Dickson Carr's fictional detective Colonel March from his book The Department of Queer Complaints . Carr was a mystery author who specialised in locked-room whodunnits and other 'impossible' crimes: murder...
  
   (TV)

"The Sorcerer" (1956)

"The Strange Event at Roman Fall" (1956)

"The Deadly Gift" (1956)

• Studio 57 (TV)

" Outpost" (1956)

• General Electric Theater
  General Electric Theater
  General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald W. Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.-Radio:...
  
   (TV)

"The Shadow Outside" (1956)

• Assignment Foreign Legion (TV)

"The Stripes of Sergeant Schweiger" (1956)

"The Sword of Truth" (1956)

"The White Kepi" (1957)

"The Testimonial of a Soldier" (1957)

• Kraft Television Theatre
  Kraft Television Theatre
  Kraft Television Theatre is an American drama/anthology television series that began May 7, 1947 on NBC, airing at 7:30pm on Wednesday evenings until December of that year. In January 1948, it moved to 9pm on Wednesdays, continuing in that timeslot until 1958. Initially produced by the J...
  
   (TV)

"Boy in a Cage" (1956)

"The Singin' Idol" (1957)

• Bailout at 43,000 (1957)
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
  Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
  Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, is a weekly CBS anthology television series, was telecast on Friday nights from 1951 until 1959. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by Schlitz beer...
  
   (TV)

"The Lonely Wizard" (1957) (Emmy Award

Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...

)

• Sing, Boy, Sing (1958) (story "The Singin' Idol")
• The Safecracker (1958)
• Touch of Evil
  Touch of Evil
  Touch of Evil is a 1958 American crime thriller film, written, directed by, and co-starring Orson Welles. The screenplay was loosely based on the novel Badge of Evil by Whit Masterson...
  
   (1958) (uncredited)
• Playhouse 90
  Playhouse 90
  Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology series that was telecast on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes. It originated from CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California...
  
   (TV)

"The Country Husband" (1956)

"The Helen Morgan Story" (1957)

"The Death of Manolete" (1957)

"Nightmare at Ground Zero" (1958)

• The Gun Runners
  The Gun Runners
  The Gun Runners, a 1958 film directed by Don Siegel, is the third adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel To Have and Have Not, starring Audie Murphy and Patricia Owens. Everett Sloane essays the part of the alcoholic sidekick originally played by Walter Brennan in the film's first adaptation,...
  
   (1958)
• Behind Closed Doors (TV)

"The Cape Canaveral Story" (1958)

• Pursuit (TV)

"The Silent Night" (1958)

• Goodyear Theatre
  Goodyear Theatre
  Goodyear Theatre is a 30-minute dramatic television anthology series telecast on NBC from 1957 to 1960 for a total of 55 episodes. The live show was derected by Don Taylor, Arthur Hiller and James Sheldon...
  
   (TV)

"The Guy in Ward 4" (1958)

"Afternoon of the Beast" (1959)

• The Scarface Mob (TV) (1959) (pilot for The Untouchables
  The Untouchables (1959 TV series)
  The Untouchables is an American crime drama that ran from 1959 to 1963 on ABC. Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalized the experiences of Eliot Ness, a real-life Prohibition agent, as he fought crime in Chicago during the 1930s with the help of a...
  
  )
• Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
  Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
  Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958 and 1960...
  
   (TV)

Debut (1958)

"The Untouchables: Part 1" (1959)

"The Untouchables: Part 2" (1959)

• The Lawbreakers (1960)
• The Crimebusters (1961)
• The Asphalt Jungle (TV)

"The Lady and the Lawyer" (1961)

"The Fighter" (1961)

"The Kidnapping" (1961)

• Cain's Hundred
  Cain's Hundred
  Cain's Hundred is an American crime drama series that aired on NBC from 1961 to 1962. The series was produced by Vanadas Productions, Inc. in association with MGM Television.-Synopsis:...
  
   (TV) (1961–1962)
• Twelve O'Clock High
  Twelve O'Clock High (TV series)
  Twelve O'Clock High or 12 O'Clock High is an American drama series set in World War II. This TV series originally broadcasted on ABC-TV for two-and-one-half TV seasons from September 18, 1964, through January 13, 1967; was based on the motion picture Twelve O'Clock High...
  
   (TV)

"Follow the Leader" (1964) (uncredited)

• Braddock (TV) (1968)
• Judd, for the Defense
  Judd, for the Defense
  Judd, for the Defense is an American legal drama originally broadcast on the ABC network on Friday nights from September 8, 1967, to September 19, 1969.-Synopsis:...
  
   (TV) (1967–1969)
• Peyton Place
  Peyton Place (TV series)
  Peyton Place is an American prime-time soap opera which aired on ABC in half-hour episodes from September 15, 1964 to June 2, 1969.Based upon the 1956 novel of the same name by Grace Metalious, the series was preceded by a 1957 film adaptation. A total of 514 episodes were broadcast, in...
  
   (TV) (1964–1969)
• The Friends of Eddie Coyle
  The Friends of Eddie Coyle
  This is an article about the movie. For information about George V. Higgins' 1970 novel, go to The Friends of Eddie Coyle .The Friends of Eddie Coyle is a 1973 crime film starring Robert Mitchum and Peter Boyle. Directed by Peter Yates, the screenplay was adapted from the novel by George V. Higgins...
  
   (1973)
• All Quiet on the Western Front
  All Quiet on the Western Front (1979 film)
  All Quiet on the Western Front is a television movie produced by ITC Entertainment, released on November 14, 1979, starring actors Richard Thomas from The Waltons fame as Paul Baumer, and Ernest Borgnine as Katczinsky...
  
   (TV) (1979)
• Salem's Lot
  Salem's Lot (1979 TV mini-series)
  Salem's Lot is a 1979 American television adaptation of the novel of the same name by Stephen King...
  
   (TV) (1979)
• V (TV)

" Liberation Day" (1984)

• Stalin
  Stalin (1992 film)
  Stalin is a 1992 television film, produced for HBO, starring Robert Duvall portraying Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. The film won three Golden Globe Awards among various awards including cinematography awards for Vilmos Zsigmond...
  
   (TV) (1992)
• Killer Rules (TV) (1993)
• Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long (TV) (1995)
• George Wallace
  George Wallace (film)
  George Wallace is a 1997 television film starring Gary Sinise as George Wallace, the former Governor of Alabama. It was directed by John Frankenheimer, who won an Emmy award for it; Sinise and Mare Winningham also won Emmies for their performances...
  
   (TV) (1997)
• Rescuers: Stories of Courage — Two Couples (TV) (1998) (segment "Aart and Johtje Vos")
• The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery
  The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery
  The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery is a made-for-television film based on the 1953 novel by Rex Stout. Set in 1950s Manhattan, the A&E Network production stars Maury Chaykin as the heavyweight detective genius Nero Wolfe, and Timothy Hutton as Wolfe's assistant, Archie Goodwin, narrator of...
  
   (TV) (2000)

Producer

• Cain's Hundred
  Cain's Hundred
  Cain's Hundred is an American crime drama series that aired on NBC from 1961 to 1962. The series was produced by Vanadas Productions, Inc. in association with MGM Television.-Synopsis:...
  
   (TV) (1961–1962) (executive producer)
• Braddock (TV) (1968)
• Deadfall
  Deadfall (1968 film)
  Deadfall is a 1968 film directed by Bryan Forbes and starring Michael Caine, Eric Portman, and Giovanna Ralli, with music by John Barry.It is based on the 1965 thriller from author Desmond Cory....
  
   (1968)
• Judd, for the Defense
  Judd, for the Defense
  Judd, for the Defense is an American legal drama originally broadcast on the ABC network on Friday nights from September 8, 1967, to September 19, 1969.-Synopsis:...
  
   (TV) (1967–1969) (executive producer)
• Peyton Place
  Peyton Place (TV series)
  Peyton Place is an American prime-time soap opera which aired on ABC in half-hour episodes from September 15, 1964 to June 2, 1969.Based upon the 1956 novel of the same name by Grace Metalious, the series was preceded by a 1957 film adaptation. A total of 514 episodes were broadcast, in...
  
   (TV) (1964–1969) (executive producer)
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman...
  
   (1969) (executive producer)
• Slaughterhouse-Five
  Slaughterhouse-Five (film)
  Slaughterhouse-Five is a 1972 film based on Kurt Vonnegut's novel of the same name. The screenplay is by Stephen Geller and the film was directed by George Roy Hill. It stars Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, and Valerie Perrine, and features Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Holly Near, and Perry King. The...
  
   (1972)
• The Friends of Eddie Coyle
  The Friends of Eddie Coyle
  This is an article about the movie. For information about George V. Higgins' 1970 novel, go to The Friends of Eddie Coyle .The Friends of Eddie Coyle is a 1973 crime film starring Robert Mitchum and Peter Boyle. Directed by Peter Yates, the screenplay was adapted from the novel by George V. Higgins...
  
   (1973)

• The Front Page
  The Front Page (1974 film)
  The Front Page is a 1974 American comedy-drama film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. The screenplay by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on the 1928 play of the same title by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, which was previously adapted for the screen under its...
  
   (1974)
• The Trial of Chaplain Jensen (TV) (1975) (executive producer)
• Carrie (1976)
• The Day the Loving Stopped (TV) (1981) (executive producer)
• Child Bride of Short Creek
  Child Bride of Short Creek
  Child Bride of Short Creek is a dramatization of the lives of the people of Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah, United States, collectively known as "Short Creek," a community made up of members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a Mormon separatist group...
  
   (TV) (1981)
• Big Trouble in Little China
  Big Trouble in Little China
  Big Trouble in Little China is a 1986 American martial arts comedy film directed by John Carpenter. It stars Kurt Russell as truck driver Jack Burton, who helps his friend Wang Chi rescue Wang's green-eyed fiancee from bandits in San Francisco's Chinatown...
  
   (1986) (executive producer)
• The Rage: Carrie 2
  The Rage: Carrie 2
  The Rage: Carrie 2 is the 1999 sequel to the 1976 horror film classic Carrie. Directed by Katt Shea, the film starred Emily Bergl, Mena Suvari, Jason London and Amy Irving.-Plot:...
  
   (1999)
• Carrie
  Carrie (2002 film)
  Carrie is a 2002 horror television film based on the novel Carrie by Stephen King, originally intended as a pilot for a TV series in which Carrie moves to Florida to help others with telekinetic problems, which never materialized...
  
   (TV) (2002) (consulting producer)

Awards

• 1958, Winner, Emmy Award
  Emmy Award
  An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
  
  
  Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
  Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
  Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, is a weekly CBS anthology television series, was telecast on Friday nights from 1951 until 1959. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by Schlitz beer...
  
   (episode "The Lonely Wizard")
  Best Teleplay Writing — Half Hour or Less
  Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
• 1980, Nominee, Edgar Award
  Edgar Award
  The Edgar Allan Poe Awards , named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America...
  
  
  Salem's Lot
  Salem's Lot (1979 TV mini-series)
  Salem's Lot is a 1979 American television adaptation of the novel of the same name by Stephen King...
  
  
  Best Television Feature or Miniseries
  Mystery Writers of America
  Mystery Writers of America
  Mystery Writers of America is an organization for mystery writers, based in New York.The organization was founded in 1945 by Clayton Rawson, Anthony Boucher, Lawrence Treat, and Brett Halliday....
  
  
• 1993, Nominee, Emmy Award
  Emmy Award
  An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
  
  
  Stalin
  Stalin (1992 film)
  Stalin is a 1992 television film, produced for HBO, starring Robert Duvall portraying Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. The film won three Golden Globe Awards among various awards including cinematography awards for Vilmos Zsigmond...
  
  
  Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a Miniseries or a Special
  Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
• 1997, Nominee, CableACE Award
  CableACE Award
  The CableACE Award was an award that was given from 1978 to 1997 to honor excellence in American cable television programming...
  
  
  George Wallace
  George Wallace (film)
  George Wallace is a 1997 television film starring Gary Sinise as George Wallace, the former Governor of Alabama. It was directed by John Frankenheimer, who won an Emmy award for it; Sinise and Mare Winningham also won Emmies for their performances...
  
  
  Writing a Movie or Miniseries
  Shared with Marshall Frady
  National Cable Television Association
• 1998, Winner, Humanitas Prize
  Humanitas Prize
  The Humanitas Prize is an award for film and television writing intended to promote human dignity, meaning, and freedom. It began in 1974 with Father Ellwood "Bud" Kieser — also the founder of Paulist Productions — but is generally not seen as specifically directed toward religious...
  
  
  George Wallace
  George Wallace (film)
  George Wallace is a 1997 television film starring Gary Sinise as George Wallace, the former Governor of Alabama. It was directed by John Frankenheimer, who won an Emmy award for it; Sinise and Mare Winningham also won Emmies for their performances...
  
  
  PBS/Cable Category
  Shared with Marshall Frady
• 1998, Nominee, WGA Award
  Writers Guild of America
  The Writers Guild of America is a generic term referring to the joint efforts of two different US labor unions:* The Writers Guild of America, East , representing TV and film writers East of the Mississippi....
  
  
  George Wallace
  George Wallace (film)
  George Wallace is a 1997 television film starring Gary Sinise as George Wallace, the former Governor of Alabama. It was directed by John Frankenheimer, who won an Emmy award for it; Sinise and Mare Winningham also won Emmies for their performances...
  
  
  Adapted Long Form
  Shared with Marshall Frady
  Writers Guild of America
  Writers Guild of America
  The Writers Guild of America is a generic term referring to the joint efforts of two different US labor unions:* The Writers Guild of America, East , representing TV and film writers East of the Mississippi....
  
  
• 1999, Nominee, Humanitas Prize
  Humanitas Prize
  The Humanitas Prize is an award for film and television writing intended to promote human dignity, meaning, and freedom. It began in 1974 with Father Ellwood "Bud" Kieser — also the founder of Paulist Productions — but is generally not seen as specifically directed toward religious...
  
  
  Rescuers: Stories of Courage — Two Couples (segment "Aart and Johtje Vos")
  60 Minute Category
  Shared with Cy Chermak and Francine Carroll
• 2000, Winner, Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Lifetime Achievement
  Writers Guild of America, west
  Writers Guild of America, west
  Writers Guild of America, West is a labor union representing film, television, radio, and new media writers. The Guild was formed in 1954 from five organizations representing writers, which include the Screen Writers Guild...
  
  

External links

• Paul Monash, Writer, producer (obituary); Variety
  Variety (magazine)
  Variety is an American weekly entertainment-trade magazine founded in New York City, New York, in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion-picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Los Angeles, California, was founded by Silverman in 1933. In 1998, the...
  
  , January 15, 2003
• Paul Monash, 85, Television Screenwriter (obituary); The New York Times
  The New York Times
  The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
  
  , January 16, 2003
• Paul Monash, Film Producer and Screenwriter (obituary); The Independent
  The Independent
  The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...
  
   (London), January 17, 2003