Reginald Rose

Reginald Rose (December 10, 1920 – April 19, 2002) was an American film and television writer most widely known for his work in the early years of television drama. Rose's work is marked by its treatment of controversial social and political issues. His realistic approach helped create the slice of life school of television drama, which was particularly influential in the anthology programs of the 1950s. Born in Manhattan, Rose attended Townsend High School and briefly attended City College (now part of the City University of New York) before serving in the U.S. Army in 1942-46, where he became a first lieutenant. Rose was married twice, to Barbara Langbart in 1943, with whom he had four children, and to Ellen McLaughlin in 1963, with whom he had two children. He died in 2002 from complications of heart failure. Description above from the Wikipedia article Reginald Rose, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Works

Shotyi Bole Shotyi Kichhu Nei

Twelve jury members debate fiercely over a murder trial. Only one juror is convinced that the convict is not guilty of the crime and he tries to convince the rest that the boy is innocent.

Release Date: 2025-01-23

Department: Writing

Job: Original Story

O veredicto

Release Date: 2019-04-12

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Douze hommes en colère

Release Date: 2010-01-05

Department: Writing

Job: Author

Vote Count: 10

12

A loose remake of “12 Angry Men”, “12” is set in contemporary Moscow where 12 very different men must unanimously decide the fate of a young Chechen accused of murdering his step-father, a Russian army officer. Consigned to a makeshift jury room in a school gymnasium, one by one each man takes center stage to confront, connect, and confess while the accused awaits a verdict and revisits his heartbreaking journey through war in flashbacks.

Release Date: 2007-06-06

Department: Writing

Job: Story

Vote Count: 388

12 Angry Men

During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the guilty verdict handed down by the others as a result of their preconceptions and prejudices.

Release Date: 1997-08-17

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 377

Escape from Sobibor

The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.

Release Date: 1987-04-12

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 190

Ek Ruka Hua Faisla

Twelve male members of a jury gather together in an enclosed room to deliberate their decision on a charge of murder against a young man who has been accused of killing his elderly father. All of the jury, save for one, are convinced of this young man's guilt, and they would like to convince their colleague also to come to the same unanimous decision. But will they be able to convince him to change his verdict? Its a hindi remake of the movie 12 angry men.

Release Date: 1986-07-23

Department: Writing

Job: Original Story

Vote Count: 17

My Two Loves

A widow emerges from her mourning after a year. She moves into a new apartment, gets a new job, and a gains a 'gentleman caller,' her late husband's partner and former best friend. Her daughter opposes the relationship and causes considerable confusion. As she tries to work out her problems, she confides in a fellow worker. The friend offers her a shoulder to cry on and ultimately suggests that they have a relationship. Surprised and more confused than ever, she does find herself drawn to her friend.

Release Date: 1986-04-07

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 2

Wild Geese II

A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.

Release Date: 1985-10-18

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 30

Who Dares Wins

When SAS Captain Peter Skellen is thrown out of the service for gross misconduct due to unnecessary violence and bullying, he is soon recruited by The People's Lobby, a fanatical group aiming to hold several US dignitaries hostage. But Skellen's dismissal is a front to enable him to get close to the terrorist group. Can he get close enough to stop the Lobby from creating an international incident?

Release Date: 1982-08-26

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 43

Twelve Angry Men

Reginal Roses story about a jury-member attempting to prevent a miscarriage of justice by forcing his colleagues to reconsider the evidence on a scorching hot day.

Release Date: 1982-05-11

Department: Writing

Job: Original Film Writer

The Rules of Marriage

A seemingly perfect marriage disintegrates, as both husband and wife become involved in a series of affairs.

Release Date: 1982-05-10

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

Dvanásť nahnevaných mužov

Slovak remake of the 1957 Sidney Lumet movie, "12 Angry Men".

Release Date: 1982-03-20

Department: Writing

Job: Original Story

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

Ken Harrison is an artist that lives to make sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck down. All he can do is talk and move his head, and he wants to die. Whilst he is in hospital he makes friends with some of the staff, and they support him when he goes to trial to be allowed to die.

Release Date: 1981-12-02

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 45

The Sea Wolves

A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to undertake a full military operation in the Portuguese stronghold, English intelligence brings out of retirement a crew of geriatric ex-soldiers, veterans from World War I, using their age as cover. These old soldiers are asked to take to the seas and pull off an unlikely undercover mission.

Release Date: 1980-07-03

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 88

Studs Lonigan

The story of the Irish-American Lonigan family between 1918 and 1930.

Release Date: 1979-03-07

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 1

Somebody Killed Her Husband

A woman's husband is murdered and she and her lover must find the killer or stand accused of doing it themselves.

Release Date: 1978-09-29

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 11

The Wild Geese

A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.

Release Date: 1978-06-28

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 261

The Zoo Gang

Six resistance fighters, known by their animal-based code names, fought during World War II. Their efforts came to a stop when one of their number, "the Wolf", betrayed them to the Gestapo. In their interrogation, one of their number, Claude Roget, the husband of Manouche was shot before her eyes. Thirty years later, Thomas Devon spots the Wolf in his shop. The surviving members of the Zoo Gang drop what they are doing and rendezvous for vengeance. The series follows the adventures of the remaining gang of four resistance fighters reunited 30 years later to scam habitual con artists and criminals in order to take their money and use it for good causes. Despite their ages, they put their skills and experience to use to raise enough money to construct a hospital in the memory of Claude. The gang is aided by the son of Manouche and Claude, an inspector in the French police.

Release Date: 1974-04-05

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 3

Doce hombres sin piedad

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young man is guilty or innocent of murdering his father.

Release Date: 1973-03-16

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 18

Monday's Theater

Greek television series

Release Date: 1972-01-03

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 4

Stranger on the Run

A drifter finds himself wrongly accused of murder by a power-crazed sheriff. The sheriff gives him a horse, some supplies, and a one-hour head start into the desert before sending his murderous posse after him.

Release Date: 1967-10-31

Department: Writing

Job: Original Story

Vote Count: 14

CBS Playhouse

CBS Playhouse is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS from 1967 to 1970. Airing twelve plays over the course of its run, the series was nominated for a number of awards and featured many noteworthy actors and playwrights.

Release Date: 1966-12-08

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1

The Twelve Jurors

Did an 18-year-old immigrant from the slums murder his father in cold blood? The twelve jurors must find a unanimous verdict.

Release Date: 1963-10-25

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 23

The Defenders

The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.

Release Date: 1961-09-16

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 41

Vote Count: 9

Drama 61-67

Drama 61-67 is anthology drama series which took a different title, based on year of transmission, each year. It alternated with Armchair Theatre from ABC in the Sunday evening slot. The series was described at the time as epitomising ATV drama.

Release Date: 1961-03-19

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

The Twilight Zone

A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.

Release Date: 1959-10-02

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 914

The Man in the Net

An artist living in a quiet Connecticut town is the main suspect in the disappearance of his shrew wife. Things turn ugly when the townsfolk attempt to take the law into their own hands.

Release Date: 1959-06-10

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 16

Tragedy in a Temporary Town

Live television drama set in a caravan park in the US. Originally presented as a 1959 episode of the Australian anthology drama show Shell Presents starring Michael Pate. It was filmed "live" in Melbourne, then recorded and broadcast in Sydney. The same script was produced in 1956 for American television.

Release Date: 1959-05-16

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

A Marriage of Strangers

Jerry and Louise are two shy types who meet and wed through a lonely hearts club. They soon learn that being a married couple is not like the movies or romance novels.

Release Date: 1959-05-14

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Man of the West

Heading east to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher for his frontier town home, Link Jones is stranded with singer Billie Ellis and gambler Sam Beasley when their train is held up. For shelter, Jones leads them to his nearby former home, where he was brought up an outlaw. Finding the gang still living in the shack, Jones pretends to be ready to return to a life crime.

Release Date: 1958-06-20

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 207

Thunder on Sycamore Street

When Joseph Blake, who once did prison time, and his daughter, Anna, move to Sycamore Street, their neighbors on the otherwise "peaceful" street converge to chase them out. But the Blakes don't back down.

Release Date: 1957-10-11

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Dino

A juvenile delinquent on parole receives support from a social worker and a girl from a slum.

Release Date: 1957-07-21

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 4

12 Angry Men

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.

Release Date: 1957-04-10

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 8905

The Defender (Studio One)

The pilot for the television series, "The Defenders." The story of Walter and Kenneth Pearson, a father-and-son legal team. Broadcast as two segments of "Studio One," the story relates how the Pearsons defend a young man accused of killing a woman during a robbery attempt.

Release Date: 1957-02-25

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 2

Crime in the Streets

A social worker tries to end juvenile crime by getting involved with a street gang.

Release Date: 1956-06-10

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 24

Tragedy in a Temporary Town

Fifteen-year-old girl Dotty Fisher is assaulted at a construction camp. In the wake of this incident, the construction workers form a vigilante group led by the hot-headed Frank Doran in order to find the person responsible for the attack. After the group erroneously assume that innocent Puerto Rican Raphael Infante is guilty of the crime, only one lone man named Alec Beggs dares to stand up to the angry mob

Release Date: 1956-02-19

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 4

The Alcoa Hour

The Alcoa Hour is an American anthology television series that was aired live on NBC from 1955 to 1957. The series was sponsored by Alcoa.

Release Date: 1955-10-16

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 51

Vote Count: 1

The Challenge

A school bus driver (Jack Warden) is fired by the local school board when he refuses to sign a loyalty oath. This was a pilot for a proposed anthology series that didn't sell.

Release Date: 1955-01-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 2

The Elgin Hour

A drama series that ran every other week, attracted top notch actors and actresses, and was broadcast from New York City.

Release Date: 1954-10-05

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1

Twelve Angry Men

Twelve Angry Men is a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose for the Studio One anthology television series. Initially staged as a CBS live production on 20 September 1954, the drama was later rewritten for the stage in 1955 under the same title and again for a feature film, 12 Angry Men (1957). The episode garnered three Emmy Awards for writer Rose, director Franklin Schaffner and Robert Cummings as Best Actor.

Release Date: 1954-09-20

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 37

The Kill

Jeff and his family just moved into a small, rural community. When two sinister locals tamper with Jeff's water pump, a fight breaks out among the three. Jeff is seen as a fugitive in the eyes of this bloodthirsty community...and there seems to be no way to stop them. Studio One, Season 5, Episode 1.

Release Date: 1952-09-22

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 2

Goodyear Television Playhouse

The Goodyear Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was telecast live on NBC from 1951 to 1957 during the "Golden Age of Television". Sponsored by Goodyear, Goodyear alternated sponsorship with Philco, and the Philco Television Playhouse was seen on alternate weeks. In 1955, the title was shortened to The Goodyear Playhouse and it aired on alternate weeks with The Alcoa Hour. The three series were essentially the same, with the only real difference being the name of the sponsor. Producer Fred Coe nurtured and encouraged a group of young, mostly unknown writers that included Robert Alan Aurthur, George Baxt, Paddy Chayefsky, Horton Foote, Howard Richardson, Tad Mosel and Gore Vidal. Notable productions included Chayefsky's Marty starring Rod Steiger, Chayefsky's The Bachelor Party, Vidal's Visit to a Small Planet, Richardson's Ark of Safety and Foote's The Trip to Bountiful. From 1957 to 1960, it became a taped, half-hour series titled Goodyear Theater, seen on Mondays at 9:30pm.

Release Date: 1951-10-14

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 3

Studio One

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.

Release Date: 1948-11-07

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 17

Vote Count: 11