Lukas Heller

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Birthday 1930-07-21

Deathday 1988-11-02 (58 years old)

Place of Birth Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Lukas Heller

Biography

Lukas Heller (21 July 1930 – 2 November 1988) was a German-born British screenwriter. Heller was born to a Jewish family in Kiel. His father was political philosopher Hermann Heller. He was known for writing the screen adaptions for several Robert Aldrich films such as What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) and Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964); for the later film he won an Edgar Award with Henry Farrell, who wrote the source text for both films.

Known For

Writer

2004
Flight of the Phoenix

as Scenario Writer

2003
Monte Walsh

as Teleplay

1986
Blue City

as Writer

1979
Son of Hitler

as Writer

1977
Damnation Alley

as Screenplay

1973
1970
Too Late the Hero

as Screenplay

1970
Monte Walsh

as Screenplay

1967
The Dirty Dozen

as Screenplay

1965
1964
Hot Enough for June

as Screenplay

1961
Never Back Losers

as Screenplay

Crew

1959
Sapphire

as Additional Dialogue