Reginald Rose

Reginald Rose was born in Manhattan, New York City, in 1920, the son of a lawyer. He attended Townsend Harris High School and briefly City College, and served in the army in the Second World War. He began trying to write at fifteen, but, he said, 'I didn't make it until I was 30.' In the meantime he worked as a copywriter, a publicist, a window washer and a clerk. In 1951 he sold his first teleplay to Studio One, a live television drama series. After serving on the jury in a manslaughter case, which led to a furious eight-hour argument in the jury room, he wrote Twelve Angry Men, set entirely in a jury room where one juror slowly persuades the others to reconsider the case against a teenage boy accused of murder. It won him an Emmy, and the 1957 film version, directed by Sidney Lumet, earned him an Academy Award nomination. In 1961 he created the courtroom television series The Defenders, which won Emmy awards for his writing. He died in Norwalk, Connecticut, in 2002.

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