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*1962 (undated): Short appearance in the cast of the French film “L’an 01” (part filmed in New York by Alain Resnais) | *1962 (undated): Short appearance in the cast of the French film “L’an 01” (part filmed in New York by Alain Resnais) | ||
*1964 (January 24): Birth of Rondi grandson of Lee to Valerie and Pedro Silva. | *1964 (January 24): Birth of Rondi grandson of Lee to Valerie and Pedro Silva. | ||
*1965 (February): visit in Italy for the first “International Exhibition of Comics” held in Bordighera. | *1965 (February/March): visit in Europe: in Italy for the first “International Exhibition of Comics” held in Bordighera and in Paris, France. | ||
*1966 (undated): visit in Paris for the exhibition of Mandrake/Phantom which took place from 3 to 15 June. | *1966 (undated): visit in Paris for the exhibition of Mandrake/Phantom which took place from 3 to 15 June. | ||
*1966 (undated): publishing of “Eris”, a drama in one act firstly staged at the “Théâtre La Bruyère” in Paris the same year and then by American Theatre Company in 1970. | *1966 (undated): publishing of “Eris”, a drama in one act firstly staged at the “Théâtre La Bruyère” in Paris the same year and then by American Theatre Company in 1970. | ||
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*1972 to 1975: writes five Phantom novels for the Avon Publications ("The Ghost Who Walks", "The Mysterious Ambassador", "Killer's Town", "The Vampires and the Witch" and "The Curse of the Two-Headed Bull"). | *1972 to 1975: writes five Phantom novels for the Avon Publications ("The Ghost Who Walks", "The Mysterious Ambassador", "Killer's Town", "The Vampires and the Witch" and "The Curse of the Two-Headed Bull"). | ||
*1973 (undated): writing of "Mandrake the Magician and the Enchantress” a musical, staged for the first time at the Lenox Arts Center at Wheatleigh. | *1973 (undated): writing of "Mandrake the Magician and the Enchantress” a musical, staged for the first time at the Lenox Arts Center at Wheatleigh. | ||
*1975 (December): publishing in Playboy magazine of "Time is Money", a short story later said as | *1975 (December): publishing in Playboy magazine of "Time is Money", a short story later said as base of the 2011 film “Time In” even if Lee Falk was not credited for it. | ||
*1976 (December 31): Marriage with Elizabeth Moxley. | *1976 (December 31): Marriage with Elizabeth Moxley. | ||
*1977 ( | *1977 (September): visit in Oslo, Norway and at the annual Gothenburg Book Fair, Sweden, to receive “The Adamson Award for Best Foreign Comics Creator” attributed by “ The Swedish Academy of Comic Art” (19 September). | ||
*1978 (April): Journey to China with his wife Elizabeth. | |||
=== 1980-1989 === | === 1980-1989 === | ||
Revision as of 18:04, 10 July 2016
| Lee Falk | |
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| Biographical information | |
| Born: | April 28, 1911 |
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| Died: | March 13, 1999 |
| Nationality: |  American
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| Occupation: | Writer |
| Website: | |
There exist many smaller biographies of Lee Falk, but all contain some minor errors. The purpose of this page is making a timeline of which each point has one or more references, other than Lee Falk himself.
Timeline
1910-1919
- 1911, April 28: Leon Harrison Gross is born i St. Louis to Eleanor Allina and Benjamin Gross.
- 1913: Eleanor and Benjamin Gross get divorced [1].
- 1913, December: Eleanor Allina Gross remarries to Albert Falk Epstein [2], and from boyhood through his college education Leon was known as Leon H. Epstein.
- 1915, April 19: Leon's brother Leslie Alan Epstein is born [3].
1920-1929
- 1924: Leon enrols at Soldan High School.
- 1928: Leon enrols at the University of Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign.
1930-1939
- 1932: Leon graduates from the Univerity of Illinois, Liberal Arts and Sciences - English [4]. Listed with: Zeta Beta Tau; Pi Delta Phi; Kappa Phi Sigma; The Daily Illini (1, 2, 3) and Honors Day (1, 2, 3).
- 1934, April 7: Leon copyrighted Mandrake the Magician under the name Leon Harrison Epstein and Lee Falk [5].
- 1934: By decree of the circuit court, St. Louis, Mo., Leon's name was legally changed from Leon H. Gross to Leon Harrison Epstein Falk [1].
- 1934, June 11: Mandrake the Magician daily comic strip debutes.
- 1935, February 3: Mandrake the Magician Sunday page debutes.
- 1935, October 1: Leon marries Louise Kanazireff, and honeymooned for a month in Mexico [6].
- 1936, February 17: The Phantom daily comic strip debutes.
- 1936, October 5: Lee and Louise Falk moved to New York.
- 1937, October 14: Lee and Louise returning with S.S. Normandie, sailing from Southamton (England) to N.Y. [7] (address: 315 E. 68th St. - NYC NY)
- 1938, October 27: Lee returning[footnotes 1] with S.S. Exochorda, sailing from Beirut (Syria) to N.Y. [7] Lee came aboard October the 5th in Alexandria (Egypt). (address: 235 E. 45th St. - NYC NY)
- 1938, October 27: Louise returning with S.S. Miochorda, sailing from Genoa (Italy) to N.Y. [7] (address: 333 E. 45th St. - NYC NY)
- 1939, May 28: The Phantom Sunday page debutes.
1940-1949
- 1940, May 23: Lee and Louise's daughter Valerie is born.
- 1940: Lee Falk starts the Cambridge Summer Theatre with John Huntington and Miriam Battista.
- 1941, April 24: Lee, Louise and Valery returning with S.S. Evangelium, sailing from Nassau to N.Y. [7] (address: 235 E. 68th St. - NYC NY) They sailed from N.Y. with S.S. Evangeline of Eastern Steamship Line on February the 1st.
- 1942: Office of Facts & Figures (later OWI) established a radio section in its Foreign Language Division with Lee Falk as chief [1][footnotes 2]. Chief of the Foreign Language Division was Alan MacGregor Cranston [1].
- 1944, March 7: Lee H. Falk is enlisted as private at Fort Devens in Massachusetts [8].
- 1945: Constance J. Moorehead Lilienthal acted at the Cambridge Summer Theatre.
- 1945: Lee and Louise get divorced.
- 1946: In addition to The Cambridge Summer Theatre Lee Falk and John Huntington operated the new Boston Summer Theatre.
- 1946, July 30: Lee marries Constance Lilienthal and honeymooned for a week [9], best man was Alan MacGregor Cranston.
1950-1959
- (undated): first summer vacations in a house rented in Truro (Barnstable County, Massachusetts, at the south part of Cape Cod’s tip, an area known as the "Outer Cape"[) at 41 South Pamet Road.
- 1950 (July): Lee is producer for the play "On The Town" at the Grist Mill Playhouse in Andover, New Jersey.
- 1950 (August 7): Lee Falk was the producer and supervisor of the comedy "On the Town" at Spa Summer Theatre in Saratoga Springs, New York.
- 1951 (September 5): Birth of Conley, son of Lee and Connie Falk.
- 1952 (July): association with Al Capp (“Li’l Abner” creator) for the County Playhouse summer season in Framingham, Massachusetts.
- 1953 and 1954 : organizes some plays for the February theatre month at the Bahama Playhouse in Nassau, Bahamas.
- 1954 (undated): Lee’s play "Happy Dollar" was staged 6 weeks in 1954 by the Theatre Inc., Houston, Texas.
- 1954 (undated): Divorce of Lee and Connie.
- 1954 (undated): Lee manages the first Marblehead theatre summer season.
- 1956 (May): cited as collaborator in the generic of the French documentary film “Toute la mémoire du monde” (“All the World's Memories”), directed by Alain Resnais.
- 1958 (January): Lee produces and stages the play “Winkelberg” at the Renata Theater, in New York City.
1960-1969
- 1960 (undated) : purchase of the rented house (the house was nicknamed by Lee “Xanadu”; in 2012 the house, always the propriety of Elizabeth Falk-Moxley and Valerie Falk was estimated as being worth 1,107,700 US dollars.
- 1961 (August 29): Birth of Marie Louise, granddaughter of Lee to Valerie and Pedro Silva.
- 1962 (December 15): Birth of Antony grandson of Lee to Valerie and Pedro Silva.
- 1962 (undated): Short appearance in the cast of the French film “L’an 01” (part filmed in New York by Alain Resnais)
- 1964 (January 24): Birth of Rondi grandson of Lee to Valerie and Pedro Silva.
- 1965 (February/March): visit in Europe: in Italy for the first “International Exhibition of Comics” held in Bordighera and in Paris, France.
- 1966 (undated): visit in Paris for the exhibition of Mandrake/Phantom which took place from 3 to 15 June.
- 1966 (undated): publishing of “Eris”, a drama in one act firstly staged at the “Théâtre La Bruyère” in Paris the same year and then by American Theatre Company in 1970.
- 1967 (undated): publishing of "Home at Six", a one act comedy.
- 1969 (undated): Lee receives the NCS Service Award by the National Cartoonists Society.
- 196? (undated): publishing of "The Flatlands", a play.
1970-1979
- 1971 (October): visit in Italy, wins “The Yellow Kid Award” at the Lucca Comics Conference.
- 1971 (undated): Lee receives “The Roman Lifetime Achievement Award” by The Italian Minister of Culture.
- 1972 (undated): Death of Lee's mother Eleanor.
- 1972 to 1975: writes five Phantom novels for the Avon Publications ("The Ghost Who Walks", "The Mysterious Ambassador", "Killer's Town", "The Vampires and the Witch" and "The Curse of the Two-Headed Bull").
- 1973 (undated): writing of "Mandrake the Magician and the Enchantress” a musical, staged for the first time at the Lenox Arts Center at Wheatleigh.
- 1975 (December): publishing in Playboy magazine of "Time is Money", a short story later said as base of the 2011 film “Time In” even if Lee Falk was not credited for it.
- 1976 (December 31): Marriage with Elizabeth Moxley.
- 1977 (September): visit in Oslo, Norway and at the annual Gothenburg Book Fair, Sweden, to receive “The Adamson Award for Best Foreign Comics Creator” attributed by “ The Swedish Academy of Comic Art” (19 September).
- 1978 (April): Journey to China with his wife Elizabeth.
1980-1989
- 1983 (undated): visit in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- 1984 (undated): visit in Italy. Invited at the 16th Italian Comics Conference in Lucca, receives a Yellow Kid Award in tribute for “A Life in Comics World”.
- 1986 (undated): stay in Sweden; wins “The Golden Adamson” of "The Swedish Academy of Comic Art" during his visit in and visits the recently opened "Fantomenland" in Eskilstuna.
- 1986 (undated): wins the “Silver T-Square Award (Reuben Award) from The National Cartoonist Society.
- 1989 (undated): wins the “Inkpot Award” at the San Diego International Comic Conference.
1990-1999
- 1990 (undated): visit of the Book Fair in Gothenburg, Sweden before to visit the Liseberg Amusement Park.
- 1992 (undated): Birth of Gwendolyn, Lee's great granddaughter to Marie Louise.
- 1994 (May 21): Lee Falk Day in his hometown St. Louis, with appearance at the Kansas City ComicCon the next day.
- 1996 (January): invited in Australia on the set of “The Phantom” movie.
- 1996 (June 4): At the Phantom movie Premiere, Lee received a letter from President Bill Clinton, congratulating him with his achievements.
- 1996 (Ocober 28): present at the European Premiere of the Phantom film in Stockholm, Sweden.
- 1999 (Spring): writes his final Mandrake and Phantom stories from his hospital bed with the help of his wife Elizabeth.
- 1999 ( March 13): Death of heart failure in New Yok City. Interment in Brooklyn's Cypress Hills Cemetery.
Note
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Study and Investigation of the Federal Communications Commission: Hearings Before the Select Committee to Investigate the Federal Communications Commission, House of Representatives, Seventy-eighth Congress, First Session, Acting Under H. Res. 21, ..., U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943, 390
- ↑ St Louis Post Dispatch (St Louis) 23 December 1913
- ↑ 1920 United States Federal Census, St. Louis City, Missouri
- ↑ The Illio, Yearbook 1932. Univerity of Illinois, p 70, 551, 585
- ↑ Library of Congress Copyright Office, Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 4 - Works of Art, Etc. New Series, 1934, 66
- ↑ St Louis Post Dispatch (St Louis) 4 October 1935
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
- ↑ U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
- ↑ "Falk-Lilienthal Nuptials Read on Tuesday", The Times Recorder (Zanesville, Ohio), 3 August 1946, tree