Education
Princeton University.
(SYNOPSIS: "Jeff Decker left Texas and buried his guns dee...)
SYNOPSIS: "Jeff Decker left Texas and buried his guns deep in his saddlebag. California promised a new life where nobody knew the reputation of a gunslinger called Double Decker. The job with the Buckster spread allowed an opportunity to test his theories of scientific ranching. But there were nesters trespassing on the Buckster range and a ruthless gunman on the ranch payroll. Decker was determined to settle the problem peaceable but reached for his guns almost too late."
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Princeton University.
He is estimated to have written 300 short stories, 200 novelettes, 12 books, many screenplays and stories turned into screenplays and a cookbook Southwest Cookery or At Home on the Range. After graduating from Princeton University he became a prolific writer of pulp fiction under his own name, the pen name of Conrad Gerson, and wrote seventeen Nick Carter novels for Street & Smith. Wormser"s first crime fiction novel was The Manitoba with the Wax Face in 1934.
His first Western novel was The Lonesome Quarter in 1951.
Hollywood purchased several of his stories beginning with his lieutenant"s All in the Racket filmed as Sworn Enemy in 1936. Columbia Pictures signed him for a short term writing contract in 1937.
He was fired, then rehired by Columbia and worked for several other studios. Columbia once couldn"t make up its mind between buying two of his stories, The Frame Up or Right Guy.
The studio at last decided on Right Guy but filmed it under the title of The Frame Up.
During World World War II he served as a forest ranger. Wormser authored several novelisations of films
Thief of Baghdad 1961
The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah 1962
McLintock! 1963
Bedtime Story 1964
Operation Crossbow 1965
Major Dundee 1965
Alvarez Kelly 1966
Torn Curtain 1966
The Scalphunters 1968
and four novels based on television series, three as "Editor Friend":
The Green Hornet: The Infernal Light 1967, adaptation (Dell)
The High Chaparral: Coyote Gold 1969, original (Tempo)
The Most Deadly Game: The Corpse in the Castle 1970, original (Lancer)
and one as Richard Wormser:
The Wild Wild West 1966, adaptation (Signet).
(SYNOPSIS: "Jeff Decker left Texas and buried his guns dee...)