Michael B. Druxman
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Michael B. Druxman is a screenwriter, active primarily in the 1990s. His scripts for B-movie
producer Roger Corman
include Cheyenne Warrior (1994) with Kelly Preston
, Dillinger and Capone (1995) starring Martin Sheen
and F. Murray Abraham
and The Doorway (2000) with Roy Scheider
, which he also directed.
He is also author of a one-person play, Jolson.
Additionally, he is the author several non-fiction
works about Hollywood, its movies and the people who make them (e.g. Basil Rathbone: His Life and His Films, Make It Again, Sam: A Survey of Movie Remakes), plus two novels, Nobody Drowns in Mineral Lake and Shadow Watcher.
His memoirs, My Forty-Five Years in Hollywood and How I Escaped Alive, were published in August, 2010, by Bear Manor Media.
B-movie
A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse or pornographic film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature....
producer Roger Corman
Roger Corman
Roger William Corman is an American film producer, director and actor. He has mostly worked on low-budget B movies. Some of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and in 2009 he won an Honorary Academy Award for...
include Cheyenne Warrior (1994) with Kelly Preston
Kelly Preston
Kelly Preston is an American actress and former model.- Early years :Preston was born Kelly Kamalelehua Smith in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her mother, Linda, was an administrator of a mental health center, and her father, who worked for an agricultural firm, drowned when Preston was three years old...
, Dillinger and Capone (1995) starring Martin Sheen
Martin Sheen
Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez , better known by his stage name Martin Sheen, is an American film actor best known for his performances in the films Badlands and Apocalypse Now , and in the television series The West Wing from 1999 to 2006.He is considered one of the best actors never to be...
and F. Murray Abraham
F. Murray Abraham
Fahrid Murray Abraham is an American actor. He became known during the 1980s after winning the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Antonio Salieri in Amadeus. He has appeared in many roles, both leading and supporting, in films such as All the President's Men and Scarface...
and The Doorway (2000) with Roy Scheider
Roy Scheider
Roy Richard Scheider was an American actor. He was best known for his leading role as police chief Martin C...
, which he also directed.
He is also author of a one-person play, Jolson.
Additionally, he is the author several non-fiction
Non-fiction
Non-fiction is the form of any narrative, account, or other communicative work whose assertions and descriptions are understood to be fact...
works about Hollywood, its movies and the people who make them (e.g. Basil Rathbone: His Life and His Films, Make It Again, Sam: A Survey of Movie Remakes), plus two novels, Nobody Drowns in Mineral Lake and Shadow Watcher.
His memoirs, My Forty-Five Years in Hollywood and How I Escaped Alive, were published in August, 2010, by Bear Manor Media.