Irwin Shaw
Videos
Irwin Shaw was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies. He is best known for two of his novels: The Young Lions
Shaw in 1948
Shaw in his CUNY years, c. 1933
Rich Man, Poor Man is a 1976 American television miniseries based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Irwin Shaw that aired on ABC in one or two-hour episodes mostly on Monday nights over seven week
Irwin Shaw
…Montgomery Clift, and Rich Man, Poor Man (1970), about the fate of two brothers and a sister in the post-World War II decades, which in 1976 was made into a popular miniseries starring Peter Strauss, Nick Nolte, and Susan Blakely. Shaw was born Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff in the South Bronx, New York City, to Jewish immigrants…
Nick Nolte as Tom Jordache
Susan Blakely and Peter Strauss as Rudy Jordache and Julie Prescott
Dorothy McGuire and Ed Asner as Mary and Axel Jordache