Victor Wolfson

Victor Wolfson (8 March 1909 – May 24, 1990) was an American dramatist, director, writer, producer, and actor.

[1][2] Victor Wolfson began his professional career organizing acting clubs for striking coal miners in West Virginia.

[3] He soon found his passion for writing and he wrote numerous plays for Broadway, dramas for television and many novels.

His Broadway productions included the 1937 comedy Excursion, as well as Bitter Stream, adapted from Fontamara by Ignazio Silone,[5] Pastoral, The Family, Pride's Crossing, and Seventh Heaven by Victor Young.

[6] In 1961, he wrote several episodes for ABC's 26-part television series Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years which earned him an Emmy Award 1960-1961 for Outstanding Writing Achievement in the Documentary Field.

Poster for a Federal Theatre Project production of Wolfson's Broadway play Excursion in New Orleans (1937)