Yale Udoff(1935-2018)
- Writer
Udoff began his career at ABC in New York working with producers-executives Douglas Cramer, Edgar Scherick and Roone Arledge, and he is credited by some for coming up with the idea to transform the Batman comic books into a TV series in the 1960s. Udoff walked in and said we ought to do Batman. They threw him out of the office, but he persisted and we decided to look into it. Udoff wrote up a formal proposal for Scherick, who then took it to higher-ups at the network. Suddenly, all these executives were flying back to New York from L.A. reading Batman comic books hidden in their Fortune magazines.
Yale Udoff, the screenwriter for Nicolas Roeg's Bad Timing/A Sensual Obsession, a 1980 psychological thriller starring Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell and Harvey Keitel. With Roeg they engaged in deep conversations as they developed the screenplay, on relationships, battles, their own personal lives. Udoff was well qualified to contribute personal material to these discussions on relations between the sexes since he had always been in the habit of recording observations, keeping journals on his friends' behavior and attitudes, which had earned him the reputation of being 'the Allen Dulles of the literary world.'
Udoff also co-wrote the 1991 feature Eve of Destruction, a sci-fi thriller starring Gregory Hines, and episodes of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (in 1967); Tales From the Crypt (in 1992); and a 1974 ABC movie of the week, Hitchhike!, starring Cloris Leachman.
Yale Udoff, the screenwriter for Nicolas Roeg's Bad Timing/A Sensual Obsession, a 1980 psychological thriller starring Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell and Harvey Keitel. With Roeg they engaged in deep conversations as they developed the screenplay, on relationships, battles, their own personal lives. Udoff was well qualified to contribute personal material to these discussions on relations between the sexes since he had always been in the habit of recording observations, keeping journals on his friends' behavior and attitudes, which had earned him the reputation of being 'the Allen Dulles of the literary world.'
Udoff also co-wrote the 1991 feature Eve of Destruction, a sci-fi thriller starring Gregory Hines, and episodes of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (in 1967); Tales From the Crypt (in 1992); and a 1974 ABC movie of the week, Hitchhike!, starring Cloris Leachman.
