Robert Pirosh
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Robert Pirosh (1 April 1910 - 25 December 1989) was an American screenwriter and director.
Born in Baltimore, Pirosh began his film career in 1934 as a junior writer for MGM, working with fellow newcomer George Seaton. The two collaborated on the Marx Brothers' 1935 comedy A Night at the Opera and their next film, A Day at the Races in 1937. Pirosh and Groucho Marx remaines lifelong friends.
In 1944 he produced his first film, Danny Kaye's Up in Arms. He earned an Academy Award in 1949 for his script for the World War II drama Battleground, which he also produced. In 1951, he was nominated for another Oscar for the screenplay Go for Broke!. This was also Pirosh's directorial debut. He would go on to write the story for Hell Is for Heroes, another World War II film directed by Don Siegel, to direct Valley of the Kings (1954) and to help create the WWII television series Combat!, starring Vic Morrow.
