Louis Pelletier

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Louis Pelletier (March 7, 1906 - February 11, 2000) was an American author of radio dramas and screenplays for motion pictures and television.

Born in New York City, New York, Pelletier co-wrote the 1937 Broadway play "Howdy Stranger" that Warner Bros. made into a 1938 film under the title "Cowboy from Brooklyn." Although his career was interrupted by service with the United States Army during World War II, in late 1944 he began writing radio plays called The FBI in Peace and War based on the 1943 book of the same title by Frederick Lewis Collins. One of several writers for the radio production, the highly successful series would run until 1958. At the same time, Collins became one of the first screenwriters for television drama, penning scripts for Kraft Television Theater, General Electric Theater, and in the early 1960s for The Untouchables.

In 1962, Louis Pelletier was hired by Walt Disney Pictures to adapt books to the screen that Disney had under option. Over the next decade he would write six screenplays including Big Red which was adapted from the Jim Kjelgaard novel and Follow Me, Boys! which was adapted from the MacKinlay Kantor novel. He wrote his last film script for Disney in 1972.

Louis Pelletier died at the age of ninety-three in Santa Monica, California.