Andrew Solt

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1916-06-07

Deathday 1990-11-04 (74 years old)

Place of Birth Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]

Also Known As Andrew P. Solt

Andrew Solt

Biography

Among Mr. Solt's credits was "In a Lonely Place," a much-praised 1950 film noir directed by Nicholas Ray. It centered on a cynical screenwriter (Humphrey Bogart) who eludes a murder charge but loses his lover (Gloria Grahame) through his violent temper. The script was hailed as "almost as flinty as the actor himself" in The New York Times by Thomas M. Pryor, who wrote that "because Mr. Solt did not compromise to fabricate a happy ending, the climax packs both surprise and a punch." Mr. Solt's screenplays included comedies like "Without Reservations" (1946), melodramas such as "Whirlpool" (1949) and "Thunder on the Hill" (1951), the 1949 version of "Little Women" and "For the First Time" (1959), the last film made by Mario Lanza. Mr. Solt, a native of Budapest, also wrote many plays for television anthologies.

Known For

Writer

1959
For the First Time

as Screenplay

1956
Wire Service

as Writer

1953
1952
The Lusty Men

as Writer

1951
Thunder on the Hill

as Screenplay

1951
The Family Secret

as Screenplay

1950
In a Lonely Place

as Screenplay

1950
Whirlpool

as Screenplay

1949
Little Women

as Screenplay

1948
Joan of Arc

as Screenplay

1946
Without Reservations

as Screenplay

1946
The Jolson Story

as Adaptation

1943
My Kingdom for a Cook

as Screenplay

Crew

1952
Lovely to Look At

as Additional Dialogue

Producer

2018
Elvis Presley: The Searcher

as Executive Producer