Author: Michael B Druxman
Born: 1941
Bio: Michael B. Druxman has written the screenplays for seven (7)
motion pictures, including **Cheyenne Warrior** with Kelly Preston,
**Keaton’s Cop** with Lee Majors, Abe Vigoda and Don Rickles, **Dillinger and Capone** starring Martin Sheen and F. Murray Abraham and **The Doorway** with Roy Scheider, which he also directed.

He is also a playwright with five (5) produced works to his credit.
His one-person musical play, (Al) **Jolson**, has had productions in several
U.S. cities, and his one-person straight play, (Spencer) **Tracy**, had a new
production last year (2009) in New Bern, NC. Subjects of his other plays
include Clark Gable, Carole Lombard and Orson Welles.

Additionally, he is the author of thirteen (13) published books,
including **The Art of Storytelling**, a “how to” book on writing that is
used as a text in several colleges, best-selling biographies of Basil
Rathbone and Merv Griffin, plus two mystery/suspense novels, **Nobody
Drowns in Mineral Lake** and **Shadow Watcher**. His most recent book
is **Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: From the Secret Files of
Harry Pennypacker**, a humorous revisionist history of Hollywood’s
Golden Age and the tabloid press that covered it.

His forthcoming memoirs are titled: **My Forty-Five Years in Hollywood and How I Escaped Alive**.

In 2009, Mr. Druxman and his wife, Sandy,  moved from Los Angeles to their new home in Austin, TX.