| LC control no. | n 78074978 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3552.E6897 |
| Personal name heading | Bercovici, Eric |
| See also | Alternate identity: Culver, Felix |
| Birth date | 1933-02-27 |
| Death date | 2014-02-09 |
| Place of birth | New York (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Kaneohe (Hawaii) |
| Field of activity | Authors Screenwriters Television writers Motion picture producers and directors Television producers and directors |
| Found in | His Wolftrap, 1979: t.p. (Eric Bercovici) Day of the evil gun poster, 1968: container (Eric Bercovici) Wikipedia, 31 March 2017 (Eric Bercovici; Eric Bercovici (February 27, 1933--February 9, 2014) was an American television/film producer and screenwriter; he was best known for producing and adapting the screenplay for the 1980 television miniseries Shōgun; born in New York City to screenwriter Leonardo Bercovici, he studied theater at Yale University; his career had barely begun when his father was blacklisted from the late 1940s through the late 1950s; Eric then went to Europe to work on films, returning to the U.S. in 1965; he then began writing episodes of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., I Spy, and The Danny Thomas Hour; he wrote the screenplays for the 1968 films Hell in the Pacific and Day of the Evil Gun; he wrote episodes for Hawaii Five-O and created the series Assignment Vienna and its pilot Assignment: Munich; in 1977, he adapted John Ehrlichman's novel, The Company, into a miniseries titled Washington: Behind Closed Doors; in 1980, Bercovici adapted James Clavell's 1975 novel, Shōgun, about an English seaman marooned in 17th century Japan, into a nine-hour miniseries of the same name; he was also a producer of the series; Bercovici finished out the 1980s and his writing/producing career for such series as McClain's Law, Chicago Story and Noble House; when not writing screenplays, Bercovici wrote crime novels; he died of a heart attack at his home in Kaneohe, Hawaii) IMDb, 31 March 2017 (Eric Bercovici (1933-2014); born February 27, 1933 in New York City, New York; died February 9, 2014 in Kaneohe, Hawaii; father of Luca Bercovici, Hilary Bercovici, and Jacob Bercovici; son of Leonardo Bercovici; also wrote under the name Felix Culver) |
| Associated language | eng |
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