Frank De Felitta is an award winning writer, documentarian, director, producer and novelist. His career in network television began as a writer in the "Golden Age of Television" penning dramatic works for such shows as "Suspense," "Campbell Soundstage," "Tales of Tomorrow" and "Adventure." In the 1960's he moved into documentary filmmaking for network television. At NBC News, he wrote, produced and directed award winning hour-long documentaries, among them "Battle of the Bulge," "The American Image," "The World of the Teenager," "Emergency Ward" and "Mississippi: A Self Portrait." Along the way he garnered several Writers Guild nominations, two Emmy nominations and a Peabody Award. Moving to Los Angeles in the 1970's, he moved into narrative feature filmmaking, penning the screenplays for films such as ANZIO, THE SAVAGE IS LOOSE, as well as writing half a dozen best-selling novels. Audrey Rose, published in 1976, spent 22 weeks on top of the New York Times best-selling paperback list and was made into a movie in 1977, for which he contributed the screenplay. Other novels include The Entity (also made into a movie) and the cult classic Sea Trial.
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