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- Sidney Salkow was born on June 16, 1909 in New York City, New York, USA. Sidney was a director and writer, known for This Is Alice (1958), Raiders of the Seven Seas (1953) and The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date (1940). Sidney was married to Patricia Salkow and Katherine Ottesen. Sidney died on October 18, 2000 in Valley Village, California, USA.
- SpousesPatricia Salkow(June 6, 1954 - October 18, 2000) (his death, 4 children)Katherine Ottesen(1941 - 1946) (2 children)
- RelativesLester Salkow(Sibling)
- After he retired from directing, he taught courses in film at California State University-Northridge.
- American director of second features, the son of a tailor. Many of his films were competent but routine westerns, war films and crime melodramas. He first worked for Republic, joining Universal from 1936-38. At Columbia (1940-43, 1947 and 1952-53) he handled, among other assignments, four installments of the popular Lone Wolf series. After 1953 he was primarily active as a director of episodic television.
- Served with the US Marines during World War II, rising to the rank of major. Working with a documentary film unit aboard an aircraft carrier, he was wounded in action during an attack by Japanese aircraft.
- Educated at the City College of New York, Columbia University and Harvard Law School.
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