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- Udoff began his career at ABC in New York working with producers-executives Douglas Cramer, Edgar Scherick and Roone Arledge, and he is credited by some for coming up with the idea to transform the Batman comic books into a TV series in the 1960s. Udoff walked in and said we ought to do Batman. They threw him out of the office, but he persisted and we decided to look into it. Udoff wrote up a formal proposal for Scherick, who then took it to higher-ups at the network. Suddenly, all these executives were flying back to New York from L.A. reading Batman comic books hidden in their Fortune magazines.
Yale Udoff, the screenwriter for Nicolas Roeg's Bad Timing/A Sensual Obsession, a 1980 psychological thriller starring Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell and Harvey Keitel. With Roeg they engaged in deep conversations as they developed the screenplay, on relationships, battles, their own personal lives. Udoff was well qualified to contribute personal material to these discussions on relations between the sexes since he had always been in the habit of recording observations, keeping journals on his friends' behavior and attitudes, which had earned him the reputation of being 'the Allen Dulles of the literary world.'
Udoff also co-wrote the 1991 feature Eve of Destruction, a sci-fi thriller starring Gregory Hines, and episodes of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (in 1967); Tales From the Crypt (in 1992); and a 1974 ABC movie of the week, Hitchhike!, starring Cloris Leachman.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- SpouseSally Shulamit(1978 - December 2010) (her death)
- Mr. Udoff graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in history. He attended Georgetown Law School for a year and served as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army before he decided to pursue work in the entertainment industry.
- Mr. Udoff quit his job at ABC to write plays. His plays The Little Gentleman and The Club, won Stanley Drama Awards in 1969. His next play, A Gun Play, which centered on violence in everyday life, premiered in 1971 at the Hartford Stage Co. It then moved to the Cherry Lane Theatre for an off-Broadway production starring Tony Musante. Clive Barnes of The New York Times wrote in his review that "Mr. Udoff appears to have a happily natural affinity for the significantly absurd."
Two earlier plays, The Little Gentleman and The Club, won Stanley Drama Awards in 1969.
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