Spotlight on Lee Falk - Timeline

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Lee Falk
Lee Falk-40s.jpg
Biographical information
Born: April 28, 1911
Died: March 13, 1999
Nationality: Mini usa.gif American
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],[7].
  • 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. [8] (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. [8] 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. [8] (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. [8] (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 [9].
  • 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 [10], 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

  1. ↑ Albert Falk and Eleonor G. (G = Gross ?) Epstein returned with S.S. Saturnia on August 11, sailing from Trieste (Italy) to N.Y.
  2. ↑ Working in Washington D.C., not at a local Illinois radio station.

References

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ↑ St Louis Post Dispatch (St Louis) 23 December 1913
  3. ↑ 1920 United States Federal Census, St. Louis City, Missouri
  4. ↑ The Illio, Yearbook 1932. Univerity of Illinois, p 70, 551, 585
  5. ↑ Library of Congress Copyright Office, Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 4 - Works of Art, Etc. New Series, 1934, 66
  6. ↑ St Louis Post Dispatch (St Louis) 4 October 1935
  7. ↑ Variety #120 page 125, 6 November 1935
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
  9. ↑ U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
  10. ↑ "Falk-Lilienthal Nuptials Read on Tuesday", The Times Recorder (Zanesville, Ohio), 3 August 1946, tree

External links

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