Biography
Budd Schulberg was born on March 27, 1914 in New York City, New York, USA as Seymour Wilson Schulberg. He was a writer and producer, known for La ley del silencio(1954), Un rostro en la multitud (1957) and Más dura será la caída (1956). He was married to Betsy Ann Langman, Geraldine Brooks, Agnes Virginia Anderson and Virginia Ray. He died on August 5, 2009 in Westhampton Beach, Long Island, New York.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Filmmakers for the Prosecution
2023
as Self - Film Researcher (archive footage)
In 1945, two young American soldiers, brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg, are commissioned to collect filmed and recorded evidence of the horrors comm...

Babyface Goes to Hollywood
2008
Forgotten Irish boxing legend Jimmy McLarnin, aka ‘The Babyfaced Assassin’, a journeyman brawler originally from County Down battled his way to fortun...
Nuremberg: The 60th Anniversary Director's Cut
2007
Writer
Using over an hour of new, never-before-seen material, combined with footage from 1946, producers David Abravanel Stein and Patrick S. Cunningham have...

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
as Self
Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines t...

Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes
2006
as Self
The documentary of the Nuremberg War Trials of 21 Nazi dignitaries held after World War II.

The Tramp and the Dictator
2002
as Self (uncredited)
A look at the parallel lives of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler and how they crossed with the creation of the film “The Great Dictator,” released in ...

The Making of 'Bamboozled'
2001
as Self
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Spike Lee's satirical take on the American entertainment industry.

Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
2000
as Self
Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films, becomes the subje...

Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
1999
as Self - Author and Screenwriter
Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews with family members and acquaintances.
Sports on the Silver Screen
1997
as Self (archive footage)
HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from t...

State of Fear
1997
Novel
Seven hundred and seventy one words from Orwell, Chomsky, Shakespeare and others. Seven hundred and seventy one people off the street. A 15 minute med...

Bacall on Bogart
1988
as Self
Lauren Bacall tells the story of her late husband Humphrey Bogart, presenting clips from his movies and interview clips with his peers.

A Question of Honor
1982
Writer
Television account of an honest New York narcotics cop who becomes unwillingly involved in a plan to uncover corruption in his department.

Raging Bull
1980
Thanks
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
The Harder They Fall
1972
Novel
A Czech TV film adaptation of Budd Schulberg's novel The Harder They Fall, which had previously been made as the 1956 US movie of the same name starri...

What Makes Sammy Run?
1959
Writer, Novel
An adaptation of Budd Schulberg's incendiary 1941 novel about the rise of an unscrupulous Hollywood producer. The production was divided into two part...

Wind Across the Everglades
1958
Writer, Director
Set in the early 20th century, the film follows a game warden who arrives in Florida to enforce conservation laws. He soon finds himself pitted agains...

A Face in the Crowd
1957
Story, Screenplay
The rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king...

The Harder They Fall
1956
Novel
Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Tor...

On the Waterfront
1954
Screenplay, Original Story
Terry Malloy is a kindhearted dockworker, and former boxer, who is tricked by his corrupt bosses into leading his friend to death. After falling in lo...

Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today
1948
Writer
How, in November 1945, after the end of the World War II and the fall of the Third Reich, the international prosecutors participating in the first Nur...

The Nazi Plan
1945
Writer
Produced and presented as evidence at the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Hermann Göring and twenty other Nazi leaders.

That Justice Be Done
1945
Writer
Newsreel footage from both sides of World War II make a case for convicting Nazi war criminals.

December 7th
1943
Writer
"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii a...

City Without Men
1943
Story
A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she ...

Weekend for Three
1941
Story
Jim is hardly thrilled when his new bride, Ellen, invites an old friend, Randy, over for dinner. Yet Jim turns genuinely dismayed once Randy arrives a...
Little Orphan Annie
1938
Screenplay
Annie (Ann Gillis), an orphan, (based on Harold Gray's comic strip but who is at no point in the film called 'Little Orphan Annie), is befriended by a...