Owen Gould Davis was an American dramatist. In 1919, he became the first elected president of the Dramatists Guild of America. He received the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his 1923 play Icebound, and penned hundreds of plays and scripts for radio and film. Before the First World War, he also wrote racy sketches of New York high jinks and low life for the Police Gazette under the name of Ike Swift. Many of these were set in the Tenderloin, Manhattan. Davis also wrote under several other pseudonyms, including Martin Hurley, Arthur J. Lamb, Walter Lawrence, John Oliver, and Robert Wayne.
Owen Davis
Active - 1914 - 1950 |
Birth - Jan 29, 1874 |
Death - Oct 14, 1956 |
Genres - Silent Film, Drama, Comedy, Romance, Action-Adventure
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Subgenres - Silent Film, Silent Feature, American Football Film, Comedy Drama, Medieval Film
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Arthur J. Lamb, John Oliver, Martin Hurley, Owen Davis Sr., Owen Gould Davis Sr., Robert Wayne, Walter Lawrence-
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