P. J. Wolfson


Pincus Jacob Wolfson was an American pharmacist, novelist, screenwriter, film producer, and film director.

Early life

Pincus Jacob Wolfson was born to Russian-Jewish immigrants in New York City. His father worked as a plumber. Pincus studied pharmacy at Fordham University.

Career

While working in a pharmacy in Madison Square Garden, he wrote his first novels.
Wolfson published his first novel, Bodies Are Dust, in 1931, and later, published twice, under two different titles, in French. It was called a "masterpiece" by Jean-Patrick Manchette.
Allen Rivkin, an advertising copy writer, who went to Hollywood and joined the RKO Pictures publicity department, formed a film writing team with Wolfson, who got a writer’s contract on the strength of "Bodies Are Dust". They started at Universal Pictures the same day. Through a luncheon conversation that day decided to collaborate on a story. In less than two years the pair wrote ten screen plays. They later wrote for the B. P. Schulberg company at Paramount Pictures.
He worked for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, RKO Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Paramount Pictures. He wrote numerous scripts for film and television. He produced 30 episodes of the television series I Married Joan between 1952 and 1955.

Works

Novels
  • Bodies Are Dust
  • Summer Hotel
  • All Women Die
  • My Flesh of Brass
  • ''How Sharp the Point''

Partial filmography

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;Director
;Producer