| P. J. Wolfson | |
| Birth Name: | Pincus Jacob Wolfson |
| Birth Date: | 22 May 1903 |
| Birth Place: | New York City, US |
| Death Place: | Los Angeles, California, US |
Pincus Jacob Wolfson (May 22, 1903 – April 16, 1979) was an American pharmacist, novelist, screenwriter, film producer, and film director.
Pincus Jacob Wolfson was born to Russian-Jewish immigrants[1] in New York City. His father worked as a plumber. Pincus studied pharmacy at Fordham University.
While working in a pharmacy in Madison Square Garden, he wrote his first novels.
Wolfson published his first novel, Bodies Are Dust, in 1931, and later, published twice, under two different titles, in French. It was called a "masterpiece" by Jean-Patrick Manchette.[2]
Allen Rivkin, an advertising copy writer, who went to Hollywood and joined the RKO Pictures publicity department, formed a film writing team with Wolfson, who got a writer’s contract on the strength of "Bodies Are Dust". They started at Universal Pictures the same day. Through a luncheon conversation that day decided to collaborate on a story. In less than two years the pair wrote ten screen plays. They later wrote for the B. P. Schulberg company at Paramount Pictures.[3]
He worked for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, RKO Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Paramount Pictures. He wrote numerous scripts for film and television. He produced 30 episodes of the television series I Married Joan between 1952 and 1955.
Novels