Richard Setlowe(1933-2022)
- Writer
Richard Setlowe was Vice President of Creative Affairs of ABC Pictures
during the early Seventies, a period noted as a Golden Age of
filmmaking. The feature films produced during his tenure-notably
CABARET, KOTCH, and STRAW DOGS--received 14 Academy Award nominations
and won eight Oscars. Other films on his watch included JUNIOR BONNER,
starring Steven McQueen, directed by Sam Peckinpah, and TOUCH, director
Igmar Berman's only English-language, American production starring
Elliott Gould and Bibi Andersson.
Setlowe moved into the executive suite directly from VARIETY, where he was the lead film critic. He is cited in the biographies of independent filmmakers such as John Cassavettes and Melvin Van Peebles as being an early champion and quoted in the bios of iconic directors like Michelangelo Antonioni and Francis Ford Coppola.
In 1976, Setlowe published his first novel THE BRINK, drawing on his youth experiences in the Navy. It was a finalist for the Ernest Hemingway Award for First Novels. He thereafter devoted full time to writing novels, subsequently publishing THE EXPERIMENT, THE HAUNTING OF SUZANNA BLACKWELL, THE BLACK SEA, and THE SEXUAL OCCUPATION OF JAPAN, which enjoyed critical and commercial success and have been translated into a dozen languages. Most recently he has written plays. THE APPLE THAT FELL FAR FROM THE TREE and NORMA JEAN & JOHNNY, have had Los Angeles stagings.
He is a graduate of the University of Southern California, and also earned a Masters of Professional Writing with honors at USC.
Setlowe moved into the executive suite directly from VARIETY, where he was the lead film critic. He is cited in the biographies of independent filmmakers such as John Cassavettes and Melvin Van Peebles as being an early champion and quoted in the bios of iconic directors like Michelangelo Antonioni and Francis Ford Coppola.
In 1976, Setlowe published his first novel THE BRINK, drawing on his youth experiences in the Navy. It was a finalist for the Ernest Hemingway Award for First Novels. He thereafter devoted full time to writing novels, subsequently publishing THE EXPERIMENT, THE HAUNTING OF SUZANNA BLACKWELL, THE BLACK SEA, and THE SEXUAL OCCUPATION OF JAPAN, which enjoyed critical and commercial success and have been translated into a dozen languages. Most recently he has written plays. THE APPLE THAT FELL FAR FROM THE TREE and NORMA JEAN & JOHNNY, have had Los Angeles stagings.
He is a graduate of the University of Southern California, and also earned a Masters of Professional Writing with honors at USC.