Pat

Website: www.patsilver-lasky.com I have several completed screenplays - producers and directors may contact me through my website or myspace.Pat Silver-Lasky wrote as a team with her late husband, the Hollywood screen writer and author, Jesse L. Lasky, Jr., son of the film pioneer. Jesse Lasky, Sr’s company, Jesse Lasky Feature Play Company produced the first full-length motion picture in Hollywood, The Squaw Man. Jesse, Jr. wrote over 50 films, 8 for C.B. DeMille, including The Ten Commandments, and Samson And Delilah. With Jesse, Pat Silver-Lasky wrote four books (including the American best seller historical novel, The Offer), 8 produced films, nearly 100 produced TV scripts, (including the award winning 'Explorers' series ('Ten Who Dared' in U.S.A.). Their verse play, 'Ghost Town' won several awards in the States. In 1984/6 their TV series, 'Philip Marlowe' won three awards in the USA, and in Holland. Jesse Lasky Jnr died in 1988. Born in Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., Pat attended the University of Washington as a Drama Major, Stanford University and Reed College - where she produced and directed their first play. She produced, wrote, directed, and acted in the first live TV drama series from Hollywood: 'Mabel's Fables', for KTLA (Paramount), which received an Emmy nomination. She also appeared in feature roles in films and played leading and co-starring roles on television, and directed for the theatre in Los Angeles and Palm Springs. As an A.S.C.A.P. writer, she wrote lyrics for 14 published and recorded songs, including "While You're Young" for Johnny Mathis's album, "Portrait of Johnny". She wrote the lyrics for two films at Columbia Studios. Pat has lived in London since the 1960’s and is a British subject. In 1987 she and Jesse wrote the play, 'Vivien', based on their book, "Love Scene", the story of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. Pat directed its highly acclaimed first production at the Melrose Theatre, Los Angeles, 1987 and directed the London Rehearsed Reading of 'VIVIEN' in 1992. Pat served as a Story Editor on the second MARLOWE series (see credits). Pat has written articles and interviews, contributed to various British antique journals, written short stories for international magazines including a 1999 series of romantic short stories for the magazine, A World of Romance. She has lectured on script writing at several American Universities, was Script Consultant and guest lecturer at the London (International) Film School for eight years until 1999 and her book, SCREENWRITING FOR THE 21ST CENTURY was first published by BT Batsford Books (Chrysalis Publishing) in March, 2004. It is being republished by Ritchie Books in 2006. BOOKS SCREENWRITING FOR THE 21ST CENTURY (B.T. Batsford UK 2005 Republished 2006 by Ritchie Books) MEN OF MYSTERY (W.H. Allen/Star U.K.) DARK DIMENSIONS (Everest House ) LOVE SCENE (T.Y. Crowell N.Y./Angus & Robertson U.K. paperback Berkley-Jove N.Y./Sphere U.K.) THE OFFER (Doubleday N.Y./ paperback Berkley-Jove ) THEATRE PRODUCTIONS GHOST TOWN (Directed 2 award-winning U.S. prods., British Drama Festival) GEHENNA OF THE BONE (London) VIVIEN (L.A. production, (also Director); & Rehearsed rd’ing, London 1992) FEATURE FILMS WIZARD OF BAGDAD (20th C. Fox) PIRATES OF TORTUGA (20th C. Fox), 7 WOMEN FROM HELL(20th C. Fox) LAND RAIDERS (Columbia), ACE UP MY SLEEVE (AIP Dir: Ivan Passer) BULL DANCE (Filmscreen Int’l, Yugoslavia) TELEVISION SERIES MABEL’S FABELS(18,Created/Written/Directed) SHANNON (3) PALADIN (2) THE NEW BREED (7) THE SAINT (3) THE BARON (2) DANGER MAN (aka “Secret Agent”) (4) THE AVENGERS (3) THE PROTECTORS (4) BBC MUSICAL SPECIALS (5) SPACE1999 (2) THE SWINGING SCENE (ITV Musical Series, 6) BEN HALL (BBC Australia, 2) THE WORLD OF LOWELL THOMAS (43 documentaries BBC/USA) THE EXPLORERS (BBC/USA 2, BAFTA Docu-Drama award) PHILIP MARLOWE (Head Writer/Story Editor LWT/HBO/Paragon, Edgar Allen Poe Award, TV Guide ‘Best New Series’) LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT Arena/Telecip Fr./Italy./U.K. FILMS FOR TELEVISION ERNEST HEMINGWAY, & ALFRED NOBEL (Chatsworth Prize Winner’s Series) PAINT ME A MURDER (orig. MOW Fox/Hammer