![]() ![]() In 1966, he directed an NBC documentary in which Booker Wright, a black waiter from Mississippi, spoke candidly about how shabbily he had been treated by customers in a whites-only restaurant. He went on to write for TV anthology series, produced and directed documentaries, was nominated for two Emmy Awards and won a Peabody Award before writing screenplays for the films “Anzio” (1968), “The Savage Is Loose” (1974) and “The Entity” (1982). ![]() De Felitta began his career writing scripts for “The Whistler,” a weekly radio thriller. In addition to his son, Raymond, a film director, screenwriter and musician, he is survived by a daughter, Ivy-Eileen De Felitta, and a grandson. His mother was the former Genevieve Sibello.Īfter graduating from Theodore Roosevelt High School in the Bronx and serving as a pilot in the Army Air Forces during World War II, Mr. His father, Pasquale, was a painter who supervised the work at some of the city’s movie palaces. “I’m a pianist,” he said in an interview on Thursday, “and he was inspired to write because I was gifted at a young age.”įrank Paul De Felitta was born in the Bronx on Aug. Raymond De Felitta, however, believes his father may have embellished the book’s origin a bit. ![]()
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