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Paul Mayersberg (born 18 June 1941) is an English writer and director and was the film critic for Movie magazine in the early 1960s and author of 1968 film book Hollywood, The Haunted House.
Paul Mayersberg was born on 18 June 1941 in Cambridge, England, UK. He is a writer and director, known for The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), Croupier (1998) and The Last Samurai (1990). He was previously married to Jennie Stoller.
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The Man Who Fell to Earth is a 1976 British science fantasy drama film directed by Nicolas Roeg and adapted by Paul Mayersberg.
Birthday: Jun 18, 1941. Birthplace: Cambridge, England, UK. Former film critic (e.g. for "Movie") and assistant to Melville, Losey and Corman, whose first produced screenplay was...
Tomatometer®Audience ScoreTitleCredit95%79%WriterNo Score Yet68%Director, WriterNo Score Yet50%ScreenwriterNo Score Yet12%DirectorPaul Mayersberg is known as an Screenplay, Actor, Writer, Director, and Production Assistant. Some of his work includes The Man Who Fell to Earth, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Croupier, The Tomb of Ligeia, Eureka, Nightfall, The Intruder, and The Disappearance.
Paul Mayersberg started as a film critic, worked as an assistant to Jean-Pierre Melville, Joseph Losey, and Roger Corman, and became the screenwriter of The Man Who Fell to Earth, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Eureka, and Croupier. He is the author of Hollywood: The Haunted House and a novel, Homme Fatale.
Screenwriter Paul Mayersberg (MY-urz-burg). He penned the film “Croupier,” directed by Mike Hodges, whom we’ll hear from later in the show. “Croupier” is a thriller about a novelist who moonlights at a London casino, although he doesn’t gamble himself. He lives to watch others’ defeat.