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Mar 10, 2022 · John Howard Tidyman, a long-time writer, editor, and publisher in the Greater Cleveland area, died on Tuesday, March 10, 2022, from complications of a stroke. His death was announced by his wife, Annabelle Lee Tidyman (nee Stasko).
John Shaft is a fictional private investigator created by author/screenwriter Ernest Tidyman for the 1970 novel of the same name. He was portrayed by Richard Roundtree in the original 1971 film and in its four sequels— Shaft's Big Score!, Shaft in Africa, Shaft (2000) and Shaft (2019)—as well as in the seven 1973–74 Shaft television films.
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Jan 30, 2019 · The Shaft books, taken as a whole, are some of the toughest, most hard-boiled P.I. novels of the seventies, and while the books did okay, it wasn’t until the first novel, Shaft (1970), was adapted by director Gordon Parks and screenwriter John D.F. Black and released the following year that Shaft, as played by Richard Roundtree became a househol...
Shaft is a 1971 American blaxploitation crime action thriller film directed by Gordon Parks and written by Ernest Tidyman and John D. F. Black. It is an adaptation of Tidyman's novel of the same name and is the first entry in the Shaft film series.
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Jul 9, 2019 · A journalist who became a writer of pulp-fiction and an Oscar-winning co-writer of the adapted screenplay for “The French Connection” — he also wrote “High Plains Drifter” for Clint Eastwood — the...
Shaft (novel) - Wikipedia. Contents. hide. (Top) Plot. Background. References. External links. Shaft (novel) Shaft is a 1970 detective novel by Ernest Tidyman. The novel debuted the character John Shaft and inspired both the 1971 film Shaft and its sequels. [1] [2] Plot.
