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Feb 16, 2024 · Eustace Cockrell wasn’t a perfect person – he was a lifelong member of Alcoholics Anonymous – but, like a lot of his stories, he believed in uplifting others.
Eustace Cockrell (1909 – 1972) is an American writer whose works encompassed the transition from the pulp fiction magazines of the 1930s to the television shows of Hollywood’s “Golden Age” of the 1950s.
- Biography
- Hollywood
- Pulp Fiction Magazines
- Family of Writers
- 1951-1955
Eustace Cockrell was born in Warrensburg, Missouri, in 1909. Like his father and his grandfather before him, he left home to pursue his own dream, the dream of being a writer.
Eventually that dream led him to Hollywood where he became, along with his brother Frank (Francis M.), one of the early writers for the growing television industry. While under contract with Warner Brothers, Eustace wrote for many of the popular western shows (Have Gun Will Travel, Maverick, etc.). He also contributed scripts to such diverse progra...
Prior to the advent of television, however, Eustace was a major contributor to “pulp” fiction magazines such as Blue Book and Argosy as well as to “slick” publications like Colliers, Saturday Evening Post and The American Magazine. Several of his stories became screenplays including Fast Company (1953), starring Howard Keel and Polly Bergen, and Te...
Eustace was literally surrounded by a family of writers. As he wrote in one of his short stories, “It was inevitable … that he end up as a writer: his sister married a writer; his brother was a writer, married a writer; another sister was also a writer.” In 1939, Eustace himself married a writer, Betty Barnett. Together they had four children – Lea...
From 1951 to 1955, Eustace was the political correspondent and later the managing editor of Fortnight Magazine, a California news magazine. He was the ghostwriter of The Stardust Road, an autobiography of songwriter Hoagy Carmichael. Eustace died in 1972 and though the storyteller has long since passed, the gift of his stories remains.
Eustace Cockrell was born on November 5, 1909 in Warrensburg, Missouri, USA. He was a writer, known for Tennessee Champ (1954), Target (1958) and The Walter Winchell File (1957). He died on June 25, 1972 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.
- November 5, 1909
- June 25, 1972
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His early stories in Volume I (1936-1945) portray the darkness of the Great Depression and the coming of World War II. Here, orphans, ex-cons, and soldiers often serve as heroes and sources of inspiration. There are no villains in Cockrell’s works, however. Everyone gets a second chance.
The published short stories of Eustace Cockrell cover a 25-year span from 1932 beginning with a boxing story in Blue Book Magazine (September 1932), co-authored with his older brother, Francis M. Cockrell, and ending with “The Long Way Home” in Collier’s, January 1957.
