Arthur T. Horman
| Arthur T. Horman | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 2, 1905 Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Died | November 2, 1964 (aged 59) Orange County, California, United States |
| Occupation | Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1934–58 |
Arthur T. Horman (1905 — 1964) was an American screenwriter whose career spanned from the 1930s to the end of the 1950s. During that time he wrote the stories or screenplays for over 60 films, as well as writing several pieces for television during the 1950s.
Horman was born on September 2, 1905 in Chicago Illinois. His first foray into the film industry was providing the story for 1934's The Meanest Gal in Town, starring ZaSu Pitts and directed by Russell Mack. After the success of that film, RKO signed him to a contract, and assigned him to work with Wanda Tuchock on Grand Old Girl (1935); By 1936 he had left RKO and was signed by the Poverty Row studio, Chesterfield-Invincible. While at C-I he did such films as the 1936 crime drama The Crime Patrol, for which he wrote the story, and It Couldn't Have Happened – But It Did, a 1936 comedy-drama directed by Phil Rosen and starring Reginald Denny, for which Horman wrote both the story and the screenplay. When Maury M. Cohen closed down Invincible and signed an agreement with RKO, Horman followed him back to his old studio. Other "B"-films on which Horman worked during this period include the story and screenplay for the crime-drama Double Danger (1938), directed by Lew Landers, the screenplay for another crime-drama, My Son Is a Criminal, directed by Charles C. Coleman, which Horman received positive notices for the plot, and the story and screenplay for another Coleman film, When G-Men Step In (1938). While working at Columbia, Horman would write the screenplay for one of their Lone Wolf series, The Lone Wolf in Paris, which was the only film in the series which stars Francis Lederer in the title role.
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