Joseph Hoffman

For the American scientist, see Joseph F. Hoffman. For other people with similar names, see Joseph Hoffmann and Joseph Hofmann.

Joseph Hoffman
Born	February 20, 1909 New York, New York, USA
Died	May 25, 1997 Los Angeles, California, USA
Occupation	Screenwriter
Years active	1935–1972

Joseph Hoffman (1909–1997) was an American screenwriter.

Biography

Hoffman began his career with a bang as a screenwriter in the mid-1930s and was installed as a junior screenwriter at 20th Century Fox. He is credited with writing the story, dialogue, or screenplay for 57 movies, from Your Uncle Dudley to The King's Pirate. From the mid-1950s into the 1960s, Hoffman wrote for television, including Leave It to Beaver, My Three Sons, The Smothers Brothers, Bonanza, and The Patty Duke Show. From 1954 on, he also worked as a producer at Screen Gems.

Filmography

Films

Year	Film	Credit	Notes
1935	Your Uncle Dudley	Screenplay By	Co-Wrote Screenplay with "Allen Birkin" and "Dore Schary"
1936	Charlie Chan's Secret	Screenplay By	Co-Wrote Screenplay with "Robert Ellis" and "Helen Logan"
	Jailbreak	Screenplay By	Co-Wrote Screenplay with "Robert Hardy Andrews"
	Country Gentlemen	Screenplay By	Co-Wrote Screenplay with "Gertrude Orr"
	Thank You, Jeeves!	Written By	Co-Wrote Screenplay with "Stephen Gross"
1937	Damaged Goods	Screenplay By
	She's Got Everything	Story By	Co-Wrote Story with "Maxwell Shane"
	Under Suspicion	Written By	Co-Wrote Screenplay with "Jefferson Parker" and "Philip Wylie"
	Hollywood Round-Up	Story By, Screenplay By	Co-Wrote Screenplay with "Monroe Shaff" and "Ethel La Blanche"
	Headin' East	Screenplay By	Co-Wrote Screenplay with "Paul Franklin" and "Ethel La Blanche"
1938	Arson Gang Busters	Screenplay By	Co-Wrote Screenplay with "Norman Burnstine" and "Alex Gottlieb"
	Safety in Numbers	Screenplay By	Co-Wrote Screenplay with "Karen DeWolf" and "Robert Chapin"
	Shadows Over Shanghai	Screenplay By
1939	The Jones Family in Hollywood	Story By	Co-Wrote Story with "Buster Keaton"
	Pride of the Navy	Story By	Co-Wrote Story with "James Webb"
	Boy Friend	Screenplay By	Co-Wrote Screenplay with "Barry Trivers"
	Quick Millions	Story By, Screenplay By	Co-Wrote Screenplay with "Buster Keaton" and "Stanley Rauh"
1940	Young as You Feel	Screenplay By	Co-Wrote Screenplay with "Stanley Rauh"
	Shooting High	Screenplay By	Uncredited Writer
1941	The Return of Daniel Boone	Screenplay By	Co-Wrote Screenplay with "Paul Franklin"
	The Officer and the Lady	Screenplay By	Co-Wrote Screenplay with "Lambert Hillyer"
1942	One Thrilling Night	Written By
	The Man with Two Lives	Written By
	City of Silent Men	Story By, Screenplay By	Co-Wrote Story with "Robert E. Kent"
	The Living Ghost	Screenplay By
1943	High Explosive	Story By
	Redhead from Manhattan	Screenplay By
	My Kingdom for a Cook	Screenplay By	Co-Wrote Screenplay with "Harold Goldman", "Jack Henley", and "Andrew Solt"
	Swing Fever	Story By	Co-Wrote Story with "Matt Brooks"
	Gung Ho!: The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders	Screenplay By	Co-Wrote Screenplay with "Lucien Hubbard"
1944	Carolina Blues	Screenplay By	Co-Wrote Screenplay with "Al Martin" and "Jack Henley"
	Goodnight Sweetheart	Story By	Co-Wrote Story with "Frank Fenton"
	Girl in the Case	Screenplay By	Co-Wrote Screenplay with "Dorcas Cochran"
	Gypsy Wildcat	Screenplay By (Uncredited)	Additional Dialogue
1945	China Sky	Screenplay By	Co-Wrote Screenplay with "Brenda Weisberg"
1946	One Way to Love	Screenplay By
1947	That's My Gal	Screenplay By
	Sikken en nat	Screenplay By
1948	An Innocent Affair	Written By	Co-Wrote Screenplay with "Lou Breslow"
1949	And Baby Makes Three	Written By	Co-Wrote Screenplay with "Lou Breslow"
1950	Buccaneer's Girl	Screenplay By	Co-Wrote Screenplay with "Harold Shumate"
1951	Air Cadet	Screenplay By
	Week-End with Father	Screenplay By
1952	At Sword's Point	Screenplay By	Co-Wrote Screenplay with "Walter Ferris"
	No Room for the Groom	Screenplay By	Based on the novel "My True Love" By "Darwin Teilhet"
	Has Anybody Seen My Gal	Screenplay By
	The Duel at Silver Creek	Screenplay By	Co-Wrote Screenplay with "Gerald Drayson Adams"
	Against All Flags	Written By	Co-Wrote Screenplay with "Aeneas MacKenzie"
1953	The Lone Hand	Screenplay By
1954	Rails Into Laramie	Screenplay By	Co-Wrote screenplay with "D.D. Beauchamp"
	Yankee Pasha	Screenplay By	Based on the novel of the same name by "Edison Marshall"
1955	Chicago Syndicate	Screenplay By
	Tall Man Riding	Screenplay By	Based on the novel of the same name by "Norman A. Fox"
1959	Pier 5, Havana	Written By	Co-Wrote Screenplay with "Robert E. Kent"
1964	Sex and the Single Girl	Story By	Based on the novel of the same name By "Helen Gurley Brown"
1967	The King's Pirate	Written By	Co-Wrote screenplay with "Paul Wayne" and "Aeneas MacKenzie"

Television

Year	TV Series	Credit	Notes
1955	General Electric Theater	Writer	1 Episode
	Damon Runyon Theater	Writer	1 Episode
1955-57	The Ford Television Theater	Producer	24 episodes
1956	Celebrity Playhouse	Producer	1 Episode
	Lux Video Theatre	Writer	1 Episode
1957-58	Colt .45	Writer, producer	7 episodes
1960	Michael Shayne	Producer	9 episodes
1961	Whispering Smith	Writer, producer	8 episodes
1961-62	Leave It to Beaver	Writer	6 episodes
1962	Bonanza	Writer	1 Episode
	Ichabod and Me	Writer	1 Episode
1962-67	My Three Sons	Writer	11 episodes
1964	The Great Adventure	Writer	1 Episode
	36th Academy Awards	Writer
1964-68	The Virginian	Writer	4 episodes
1965	Branded	Writer	1 Episode
	The Patty Duke Show	Writer	1 Episode
1966-70	Family Affair	Writer	6 episodes
1970	Nanny and the Professor	Writer	1 Episode
1972	Love, American Style	Writer	1 Episode

Bibliography

• Shelley, Peter. Frances Farmer: The Life and Films of a Troubled Star. McFarland, 2010.

External links

• Joseph Hoffman at IMDb