Robert Boris

 ( 1945 Births ) 

Robert Boris (October 12, 1945) is an American screenwriter, film producer and director.

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Life and career During the 1970s and 1980s Robert Boris wrote or co-wrote various original or adapted screenplays and dialogues, either for TV or feature films, including Birds of Prey, Electra Glide in Blue (whose script was noted for its fatalism) and Some Kind of Hero, directed by Michael Pressman . He also wrote the screenplay for Doctor Detroit, his second collaboration with Pressman. Boris's work on the film is described as follows:

Nick de Semlyen (2019). 9780752266572, Pan Macmillan. . ISBN 9780752266572

In 1983 Boris wrote the screenplay of the 4-part serialised film Blood Feud, focusing on the power struggle between Robert F. Kennedy and James R. Hoffa. The next year, he wrote and directed Oxford Blues. Regarding the film, Boris's debut as director, Peter Bart recalls:

He is also the director of Steele Justice, Buy & Cell, Frank and Jesse, and Backyard Dogs.

Drafts or abandoned screenplays by Boris

include the first draft for Air Force One, that producers wanted to submit to Ridley Scott.

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Awards Boris won the WGA Award for Original/Adapted Multi-Part Long Form Series for Blood Feud in 1984. "Writers Honor Four Oscar Contenders" UPI. Retrieved 2016-08-07.

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Filmography

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As director only

• Buy & Cell (1988)
• Frank and Jesse (1994)

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As writer and director

• Oxford Blues (1984)
• Steele Justice (1987)
  Mark Walker (1991). 9780810824751, Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. . ISBN 9780810824751
• Backyard Dogs (2000)
• Little Hercules (2009), with Hulk Hogan

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As writer only

• Birds of Prey (screenplay adapted from a story by himself Rupert Hitzig) (1973) (TV)
• Electra Glide in Blue (with Rupert Hitzig) (1973)
• Some Kind of Hero (screenplay adapted from James Kirkwood Jr.) (1982)
  John A. Williams (2025). 9781560259183, New York : Thunder's Mouth Press : Distributd by Publishers Group West. . ISBN 9781560259183
• Deadly Encounter (with David J. Kinghorn) (1982) (TV)
• Blood Feud (1983) (TV)
• Doctor Detroit (with Carl Gottlieb and Bruce Jay Friedman) (1983)
• Izzy and Moe (with Steven Patrick Bell, Jim Cash & Jack Epps Jr.) (1985) (TV)
• Marilyn and Me (1991) (TV) (screenplay and story)
• Extreme Justice (with Frank Sacks) (1993)
  Frank Sacks (1993). 9781561712298, New York : S.P.I. Books. . ISBN 9781561712298
• Diplomatic Siege (with Mark Amin, Sam Bernard and Kevin Bernhardt) (1999)
• Deep Freeze (with Dennis A. Pratt and Matthew Jason Walsh) (2002)

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