Lewis John Carlino

Carlino is a smoothly efficient scenarist especially adept at making the bizarre or metaphysical believable, as with "Seconds" (1966) "Resurrection" (1980) and "Haunted Summer" (1988). He also has met with success as a director, helming and scripting effective adaptations of Yukio Mishima's "The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea" (1975) and Pat Conroy's "The Great Santini" (1979).

• Born:
  January 1, 1932 in New York City, New York, USA
• Job Titles:
  Screenwriter, Director, Playwright

Education

• El Camino College, Torrance, California, BA
• University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, MA

Milestones

• 1966 Scripted first film, Seconds
• 1972 First producing credit The Mechanic (also scripted)
• 1975 Directorial debut, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea