Raymond Abrashkin (March 09, 1911 - August 25, 1960) was an American writer best known for writing, co-producing, and co-directing the acclaimed movie, The Little Fugitive, and for co-creating and co-authoring the highly successful Danny Dunn series of science fiction books for children with Jay Williams. Events 590 - Bahram Chobin is crowned as king Barham VI of Persia. Year 1911 ( MCMXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 1248 - The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III the Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Little Fugitive ( 1953) is film written and directed by Raymond Abrashkin (under the pseudonym "Ray Ashley" Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin Danny Dunn is the name of a Fictional character and Protagonist of a series of juvenile Science fiction /adventure books written by Raymond Abrashkin Jay Williams ( May 31, 1914 – July 12, 1978) was an American author born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Max
Family
Raymond's parents were Harry Abrashkin, born in what is now Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, and Bertha Kornfeld, born in England. Dnipropetrovsk (Дніпропетровськ Днепропетро́вск Dnepropetrovsk; formerly Yekaterinoslav, ru Екатериносла́въ is Ukraine (Україна Ukrayina, /ukrɑˈjinɑ/ is a country in Eastern Europe. Raymond was born in Brooklyn, New York. Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City.
He graduated from the City College of New York and taught in New York City public schools. The City College of The City University of New York (known more commonly as the City College of New York or simply City College, CCNY, or colloquially as The City of New York His writing career began as the education editor of PM Newspaper. He became the principal writer for Young People's Records. He wrote the syndicated comic strip Timmy, drawn by Howard Sparber.
Around 1935, he married Evelyn Kurinski. They had two children, John Michael (West) Abrashkin, an artist (1941-1992), and William Henry (Hank) Abrashkin, a Trial Court Judge in Massachusetts (b. 1944). There are two grandchildren, Karen Anna Abrashkin (b. 1981) and John Raymond Abrashkin (b. 1983).
During World War II Abrashkin served in the United States Maritime Service on supply ships in the Atlantic. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including During and after the war, he lived in Greenwich Village, New York. Greenwich Village (ˌgrɛnɪtʃ ˈvɪlɪdʒ often simply called the Village, is a largely residential area on the west side of downtown (southern Manhattan In 1951 he and his family moved to a converted barn in Weston, Connecticut, where he lived for the remainder of his life. Weston is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.
Little Fugitive
In 1952 Abrashkin wrote the screenplay for Little Fugitive under the name "Ray Ashley", which he co-produced and co-directed with Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin. Little Fugitive ( 1953) is film written and directed by Raymond Abrashkin (under the pseudonym "Ray Ashley" Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin The movie, which came out in 1953, was nominated for an Academy Award, and won acclaim and praise from François Truffaut as setting the stage for the French New Wave movement. "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. François Roland Truffaut ( February 6 1932 – October 21 1984) was one of the founders of the French New Wave in filmmaking "Nouvelle Vague" redirects here For the music group of the same name see Nouvelle Vague (band.
While working on the movie at Coney Island, Abrashkin was stricken with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, (ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease), from which he died, aged 49. Coney Island is a Peninsula, formerly an island in southernmost Brooklyn, New York City, USA with a Beach on the Atlantic Ocean The motor neurone diseases (or motor neuron diseases) (MND are a group of progressive neurological disorders that destroy Motor neurones the cells that control voluntary Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis ( ALS, sometimes called Maladie de Charcot, or in the United States Lou Gehrig's Disease) is a progressive
External links
- The Little Fugitive at the Internet Movie Database
- Raymond Abrashkin at the Internet Book List
- Raymond Abrashkin at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Dapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic