The Entity

Frank Paul De Felitta was born in the Bronx, New York on August 3, 1921. During World War II, he served as a pilot in the Army Air Forces. He wrote scripts for a weekly radio thriller entitled The Whistler. He went on to write for TV anthology series and produced and directed documentaries. In 1966, he directed an NBC documentary in which Booker Wright, a black waiter from Mississippi, spoke candidly about how shabbily he had been treated by customers in a whites-only restaurant. Wright was eventually murdered. De Felitta won a Peabody Award for his documentary work. He also wrote the screenplays for the films Anzio, The Savage Is Loose, and The Entity. He wrote several horror novels including Audrey Rose and For Love of Audrey Rose. He also wrote the screenplay for the 1977 film Audrey Rose starring Anthony Hopkins. He died on March 29, 2016 at the age of 94.

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