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Lewis John Carlino
Lewis John Carlino (January 1, 1932 – June 17, 2020) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director. His best known works included the screenplays for Seconds (1966), The Fox (1967), The Brotherhood (1968), The Mechanic (1972), I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977), and Resurrection (1980). He wrote and directed the literary adaptations The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1976), based on a novel by Yukio Mishima; and The Great Santini (1979), based on a novel by Pat Conroy.
Carlino was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for I Never Promised You a Rose Garden and a Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay for The Fox. He was also a three-time Writers Guild of America Award nominee and a Drama Desk Award winner.
Carlino was born in New York City, the son of an Italian immigrant from Sicily. He attended El Camino College before he was drafted into the United States Air Force in 1951. He served for four years during the Korean War, an experience that later inspired him to make the film The Great Santini. After his discharge, he used the G.I. Bill to enroll at the University of Southern California, where he studied drama. He graduated in 1958.
One of Carlino's earliest works was a play, The Brick and the Rose; a collage for voices. It was published on December 12, 1957, and the first production took place that year in the Ivar Theatre, now part of the LA Film School, in Hollywood, California.
The script for The Brick and the Rose was distributed by the Dramatists Play Service beginning in 1959 and the play was presented on television as part of the CBS Repertoire Workshop on January 24, 1960.
Carlino continued to write for theater with some success with scripts regularly published by Dramatists Play Service and numerous performances in several venues including the American National Theatre and Academy and the John Golden Theatre. He won a Vernon Rice Award in 1964.
Carlino's first screenwriting credit was And Make Thunder His Tribute, Episode 99 of the television series Route 66, which aired on November 1, 1963. That same month, Carlino was hired by Kirk Douglas' film production company, Joel Productions, to write the screenplay for Seconds, based on the novel by science fiction writer David Ely. The lead in the film was initially written for Douglas but the role was eventually played by Rock Hudson, with Joel Productions (co-headed by producer Edward Lewis) co-producing the film with John Frankenheimer Productions, director John Frankenheimer's film production company, and Gibraltar Productions, Hudson's film production company. This conspiracy thriller gained considerable attention as the final part of a loosely connected paranoia trilogy from the director. The film was submitted in competition at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival and was one of the nominees for the Palme D'Or.
In October 1963, it was reported that Carlino would adapt Jackson Donahue's novel The Confessor for producer Edward Lewis and director Frankenheimer as part of a one-off picture deal for The Mirisch Corporation. The film was to star Anthony Perkins (later replaced by Tony Curtis) and Henry Fonda, but the project never made it to film.
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Lewis John Carlino
Lewis John Carlino (January 1, 1932 – June 17, 2020) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director. His best known works included the screenplays for Seconds (1966), The Fox (1967), The Brotherhood (1968), The Mechanic (1972), I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977), and Resurrection (1980). He wrote and directed the literary adaptations The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1976), based on a novel by Yukio Mishima; and The Great Santini (1979), based on a novel by Pat Conroy.
Carlino was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for I Never Promised You a Rose Garden and a Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay for The Fox. He was also a three-time Writers Guild of America Award nominee and a Drama Desk Award winner.
Carlino was born in New York City, the son of an Italian immigrant from Sicily. He attended El Camino College before he was drafted into the United States Air Force in 1951. He served for four years during the Korean War, an experience that later inspired him to make the film The Great Santini. After his discharge, he used the G.I. Bill to enroll at the University of Southern California, where he studied drama. He graduated in 1958.
One of Carlino's earliest works was a play, The Brick and the Rose; a collage for voices. It was published on December 12, 1957, and the first production took place that year in the Ivar Theatre, now part of the LA Film School, in Hollywood, California.
The script for The Brick and the Rose was distributed by the Dramatists Play Service beginning in 1959 and the play was presented on television as part of the CBS Repertoire Workshop on January 24, 1960.
Carlino continued to write for theater with some success with scripts regularly published by Dramatists Play Service and numerous performances in several venues including the American National Theatre and Academy and the John Golden Theatre. He won a Vernon Rice Award in 1964.
Carlino's first screenwriting credit was And Make Thunder His Tribute, Episode 99 of the television series Route 66, which aired on November 1, 1963. That same month, Carlino was hired by Kirk Douglas' film production company, Joel Productions, to write the screenplay for Seconds, based on the novel by science fiction writer David Ely. The lead in the film was initially written for Douglas but the role was eventually played by Rock Hudson, with Joel Productions (co-headed by producer Edward Lewis) co-producing the film with John Frankenheimer Productions, director John Frankenheimer's film production company, and Gibraltar Productions, Hudson's film production company. This conspiracy thriller gained considerable attention as the final part of a loosely connected paranoia trilogy from the director. The film was submitted in competition at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival and was one of the nominees for the Palme D'Or.
In October 1963, it was reported that Carlino would adapt Jackson Donahue's novel The Confessor for producer Edward Lewis and director Frankenheimer as part of a one-off picture deal for The Mirisch Corporation. The film was to star Anthony Perkins (later replaced by Tony Curtis) and Henry Fonda, but the project never made it to film.