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Tidyman was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Kathryn (Kascsak) and Benjamin Ralph Tidyman, a crime reporter for The Plain Dealer. He was of Hungarian and British descent. He began his career as a copyboy in Cleveland when he was 14, having dropped out of school in grade seven.
Jan 30, 2019 · Shaft’s creator was Ernest Tidyman, the son of a police reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. At age 14, Ernest dropped out of school and got a job as the police reporter with the rival Cleveland News, lying about his age.
Jul 28, 2014 · Tennessee Williams presents Ernest Tidyman with the 1971 Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The French Connection. Tidyman had sketched out story ideas for three further Shaft books, which he wanted to produce in quick succession so they would fall within the timeframe of MGM’s options agreement.
Mar 29, 2011 · Ernest Ralph Tidyman took his opening breath on Jan. 1, 1928, the son of a veteran police reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. At age 14, he dropped out of school and, concealing his youth, won his own police-reporting gig with the rival Cleveland News.
Writer Ernest Tidyman, who created the cool tough guy, inhabited a world far different than that of his hero.
Jul 9, 2019 · Early on in his fictional life, however, Shaft was among Jews, as Shaft creator and author Ernest Tidyman chronicled in “Shaft Among the Jews” (Dial Press, 1972), the second of seven detective...
Tidyman, Ernest was born on January 1, 1928 in Cleveland. Son of Benjamin and Catherine (Kascsak) Tidyman. Education Children by previous marriage—Benjamin, Nathaniel. Educated public schools Newspaper writer, editor Cleveland News, 1954-1957, New York Post, 1957-1960. Editor New York Times, New York City, 1960-1966.
