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- Birth nameDaniel Lewis James Jr.
- Daniel James was born on January 14, 1911 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He was a writer and assistant director, known for The Great Dictator (1940), Gorgo (1961) and The Giant Behemoth (1959). He was married to Idyl Lilith Stanward and Rosalie Dorothy Guignon. He died on May 18, 1988 in Monterey, California, USA.
- SpousesLilith James(1940 - May 18, 1988) (his death, 1 child)Rosalie Dorothy Guignon(December 16, 1934 - 1938) (divorced)
- Wrote the novel 'Famous All Over Town', published in 1983, under the pseudonym Danny Santiago. The novel won the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award, a $5,000 prize for an outstanding work of fiction presented by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
- Blacklisted after he was identified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1951 as having been a member of the Communist Party.
- Lived in Carmel Highlands, California, with his wife Lilith. Together they had two daughters, Barbara and Catherine.
- He grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, graduated from Andover Academy and was the only member of the Yale Class of 1933 to major in classical Greek.
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