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Eustace Cockrell. and the Art of Story Telling. 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.
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Eustace Cockrell was born in the small Missouri town of...
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Eustace Cockrell published 84 short stories between 1932 and...
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Teleplay by Eustace Cockrell and Francis M. Cockrell (S-1,...
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Eustace Cockrell was a pioneer television writer who, during...
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The published short stories of Eustace Cockrell cover a...
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Feb 13, 2024 · In June 1972, two months before Coleman was to be wed to his fiance, Elizabeth Cockrell, her father, Eustace Cockrell, died at the age of 62 due to a heart attack. “It was stunning. I mean, you just don't expect that,” Coleman said.
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- 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 a pioneer television writer who contributed to many of the early Western shows, including Man Without A Gun and Cheyenne.
Eustace Cockrell: Great American Writer, Warrensburg, Missouri. 192 likes · 25 talking about this. Eustace Cockrell is a prolific writer whose short stories are unearthed and compiled by Roger Coleman
As a Missouri resident, 18 years of age or older, I support the addition of Warrensburg natives, Francis M. Cockrill III (1906-1987) and Eustace W. Cockrell (1909-1972), to the Hall of Famous Missourians for their significant and lasting literary contributions during television’s Golden Age of the 1950s. SIGN THE PETITION NOW.
The two-volume Masterpieces of Eustace Cockrell have been organized to reflect a division within Cockrell’s writings. His early stories in Volume I (1936-1945) portray the darkness of the Great Depression and the coming of World War II.
