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  1. Barrett was born in 1929 in Charlotte, North Carolina and graduated in 1950 from Anderson University (South Carolina). Prior to his career as a screenwriter, he served in the United States Marines. His first screenplay (based on his teleplay The Murder of a Sand Flea) was for the 1957 film, The D.I., [3] which starred Jack Webb as a Marine ...

  2. James Lee Barrett was born on November 19, 1929 in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Smokey and the Bandit (1977), The Cheyenne Social Club (1970) and In the Heat of the Night (1988). He died on October 15, 1989 in Templeton, California, USA.

    • November 19, 1929
    • October 15, 1989
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    The D.I. (also known as The Drill Instructor), Warner Bros., 1957. The Truth about Spring (adapted from the novel Satanby Henry de Vere Stackpoole), Universal, 1964. (With George Stevens) The Greatest Story Ever Told,United Artists, 1965. Shenandoah,Universal, 1965. Bandolero!(adapted from a story by Stanley L. Hough), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1968. ...

    The Awakening Land(miniseries), 1978. Stubby Pringle's Christmas,1978. Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure,1979. The Day Christ Died,1980. Belle Starr,1980. The Defiant Ones,1986. Stagecoach,1986. Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo,1986. The Quick and the Dead,1987. Poker Alice,1987. April Morning (based on the novel of the same name by Howard Fast),...

    (With Peter Udell and Philip Rose) Shenadoah(stage play; based on Barrett's screenplay), produced at Goodspeed Opera House, East Haddam, CT, 1975; produced on Broadway, 1975. SIDELIGHTS: James Lee Barrett is remembered as the author of a number of screenplays for both motion pictures and television movies as well as two television series. His works...

  3. James Lee Barrett was born on 19 November 1929 in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Smokey and the Bandit (1977), The Cheyenne Social Club (1970) and In the Heat of the Night (1988). He died on 15 October 1989 in Templeton, California, USA.

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    • Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
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    • Templeton, California, USA
  4. James Lee Barrett (1929-1989) was a prolific film and TV writer whose work often reflected his Southern roots and salt-of-the earth American values. Barrett received his greatest recognition for Shenandoah, the story of a Virginian family trying to stay out of the fighting during the Civil War.

  5. May 17, 2016 · Once described as “perhaps the most prolific hyphenate (writer-producer) in Hollywood,” James Lee Barrett was born on November 19, 1929, in Charlotte, North Carolina, the son of James Hamlin Barrett and Anne Blake. He grew up in Anderson, South Carolina.

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  7. Oct 17, 1989 · James Lee Barrett, a Tony Award-winning stage, television and film writer, died at his home in Templeton, Calif., Sunday. He was 59 and had cancer, said a spokesman for Preferred Artists Talent...

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