Stuart Kaminsky

Stuart Kaminsky was born on Sep 29, 1934 in USA. Stuart Kaminsky's big-screen debut came with Once Upon a Time in America directed by Sergio Leone in 1984. Stuart Kaminsky is known for Once Upon a Time in America directed by Sergio Leone, Robert De Niro stars as Noodles and James Woods as Max. The upcoming new movie Stuart Kaminsky plays is When the Dark Man Calls which will be released on Jun 14, 1995.

Stuart M. Kaminsky is a prolific author, born in Chicago in 1934 to Leo and Dorothy Kaminsky. He earned a BS in Journalism, and an MA in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a PhD in Speech from Northwestern where he taught from 1973 until 1989. He was a professor and head of the film division for ten years until he moved to Florida State University in Sarasota in 1989 where he was founding director of the Graduate Conservatory in Film and Television Production. He left acadamia in 1994 to focus full-time on writing. Besides numerous mystery/suspense novels, he has written several film biographies, including those on Clint Eastwood, Gary Cooper, John Huston, and Don Siegel. He has also written textbooks on film and television writing. He has several screenwriting credits, including added dialoge for "Once Upon a Time in America." He was president of the Mystery Writers of America and has been nominated for six Edgar Allen Poe Awards. He won an Edgar in 1989 for his novel, "A Cold Red Sunrise."