Christopher Knopf

Writing

Christopher Knopf

Born December 20, 1927 · New York City, New York, USA

Died February 13, 2019 · aged 91

Christopher Knopf (December 20, 1927 – February 13, 2019) was an American screenwriter and union executive. He served as the president of the Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) and the International Affiliation of Writers Guilds (IAWG). He won two awards from the WGAW: the Morgan Cox Award in 1991 and the Edmund H. North Award in 2002.[

Known For

20 Million Miles to Earth20 Million Miles to Earth · 1957
20 Million Miles to Earth
★ 6.21957
MovieScience FictionHorror
When the first manned flight to Venus returns to Earth, the rocket crash-lands in the Mediterranean near a small Italian fishing village. The locals manage to save Colonel Robert Calder, the mission commander. A young boy also recovers what turns out to be a specimen of an alien creature. Growing at a fantastic rate, it manages to escape and eventually threatens the city of Rome.
PossePosse · 1975
Posse
★ 6.11975
MovieWestern
A tough marshal with political ambitions leads an elite posse to capture a notorious train robber and his gang.
The Tall StrangerThe Tall Stranger · 1957
The Tall Stranger
★ 6.51957
MovieWestern
A Union soldier returns to his western home at the end of the Civil War and finds himself caught in the middle of a land war between his greedy half-brother and a wagon train of Confederate homesteaders.
Emperor of the NorthEmperor of the North · 1973
Emperor of the North
★ 6.91973
MovieAdventureDrama
Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone "ride the rails" for free.
Hell Bent for LeatherHell Bent for Leather · 1960
Hell Bent for Leather
★ 6.31960
MovieWestern
When Clay Santell stops in the town of Sutterville after having his horse stolen, he is mistaken by townspeople for a murderer named Travers. The townspeople capture Santell, and turn him over to lawman Harry Deckett. Deckett, who is tired of chasing the real Travers, decides to kill Santell and pass him off as Travers. Santell escapes from Deckett, taking lovely Janet Gifford hostage in the process. Janet comes to believe Santell's story, and helps him in his struggle to prove his real identity.
The ChoirboysThe Choirboys · 1977
The Choirboys
★ 5.41977
MovieComedyCrime
A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery.
The King's ThiefThe King's Thief · 1955
The King's Thief
★ 6.21955
MovieAdventureDrama
An ex-soldier turned highwayman uncovers a plot to take control of England from King Charles II.
Pope John Paul IIPope John Paul II · 1984
Pope John Paul II
★ 7.51984
MovieDramaHistory
Bio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young activist in Poland to his rise and installation in 1978 as Pope of the Catholic world.

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Cimarron StripCimarron Strip · 1967
Cimarron Strip
★ 5.81967
SeriesWestern
Cimarron Strip is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from September 1967 to March 1968. Starring Stuart Whitman as Marshal Jim Crown, the series was produced by the creators of Gunsmoke. Reruns of the original show were aired in the summer of 1971. Cimarron Strip was one of only three 90-minute weekly Western series that aired during the 1960s, and the only 90-minute series of any kind to be centered primarily around one lead character. Cimarron Strip was set in the Oklahoma Panhandle, which comprises, east to west, Beaver, Texas, and Cimarron counties in Oklahoma. The show is set in 1888, just as the continuous frontier of the West, which once ran from the Canadian to the Mexican border, was closing. In less than five years there would no longer be that "continuous frontier," only pockets of undeveloped land. This was the late "Wild West" that Marshall Jim Crown was called to defend.

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