(published in 1976). Uris was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Jewish American parents Wolf William and Anna (née Blumberg) Uris. His father, born...
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Exodus is a historical novel by American novelist Leon Uris about the founding of the State of Israel beginning with a compressed retelling of the voyages...
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Battle Cry is a 1953 novel by American writer Leon Uris. Many of the events in the book are based on Uris's own World War II experience with the 6th Marine...
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Redemption (first published 1995) is a novel by author Leon Uris. It is a sequel to his epic 1976 book, Trinity. Set mainly in the first half of the twentieth...
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Noiret and John Forsythe. Based on the 1967 novel of the same title by Leon Uris, the film is about a French intelligence agent (Stafford) who becomes...
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Dering v Uris and Others was a 1964 English libel suit brought by Polish-born Wladislaw Dering [de] against the American writer Leon Uris. It was described...
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QB VII (category Novels by Leon Uris)
QB VII by Leon Uris is a dramatic courtroom novel published in 1970. The four-part novel highlights the events leading to a libel trial in the United...
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was adapted by Dalton Trumbo from the 1958 novel of the same name by Leon Uris. The film stars an ensemble cast including Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint...
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Anatoly Rubin (section Leon Uris' Exodus)
Anatoly Rubin (1927–2017) was an Israeli activist and Prisoner of Zion who survived the Holocaust and later the Gulags. Born in Minsk, he survived the...
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George Eugeniou Alec Mango as Papa Philibos Uris' novel was published in 1955. Because of its Greek setting, Uris was hired to write the screenplay for Boy...
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Mila 18 (category Novels by Leon Uris)
Mila 18 is a historical novel by Leon Uris set in German-occupied Warsaw, Poland, before and during World War II. Mila 18 debuted at #7 on The New York...
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in CinemaScope. The film is based on the 1953 novel by former Marine Leon Uris, who also wrote the screenplay, and was produced and directed by Raoul...
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Old English retelling of the Biblical departure Exodus (Uris novel), a 1958 novel by Leon Uris, based partly on the story of the Jewish refugee ship by...
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Trinity (novel) (category Novels by Leon Uris)
Trinity is a novel by American author Leon Uris, published in 1976 by Doubleday. It spent 21 weeks atop The New York Times Best Sellers list in 1976 and...
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The Haj (novel) (category Novels by Leon Uris)
The Haj is a novel published in 1984 by American author Leon Uris that tells the story of the birth of Israel from the viewpoint of a Palestinian Arab...
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film was directed by John Sturges from a screenplay written by novelist Leon Uris. It was a remake of the 1939 film Frontier Marshall starring Randolph...
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(1969 film), a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the novel by Leon Uris Topaz (1991 film), a Japanese film Topacio, (Spanish for Topaz), a 1984...
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revolutionary and politician Leon Underwood (1890–1975), British sculptor, painter and writer Leon Uris (1924–2003), American novelist Leon Vance (1916–1944), American...
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Hubinon in 1950. (ISBN 2-8001-2063-0) Leon Uris' 1953 fictional Battle Cry extensively depicts the 1943 battle. (Uris was a Marine on Guadalcanal.) Tarawa...
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the ancient Olympics. Nadel's book, Leon Uris: Life of a Best Seller, was the first full-length biography of Uris. It was based on the archives at Harry...
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Adapted to the screen by Edward Anhalt from the 1970 novel QB VII by Leon Uris, it was produced by Douglas S. Cramer and directed by Tom Gries. The original...
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Hamilton story that had been serialized in The Saturday Evening Post. Leon Uris wrote a second screenplay and Robert Wilder wrote another, with the final...
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founding of the state of Israel adapted from the novel of the same name by Leon Uris. It was directed by Otto Preminger. She also co-starred with Warren Beatty...
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Uris may refer to: Harold Uris (1905–1982), American real estate investor, brother of Percy Leon Uris (1924–2003), American novelist Percy Uris (1899–1971)...
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has been copied verbatim from the book of fiction written in 1961 by Leon Uris and titled Mila 18, including the mention of apparently fictional Nazi...
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the film he intended to adapt from by Leon Uris' 1958 novel Exodus when the script he had commissioned from Uris was deemed unusable. The producer-director...
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Redemption (Fast novel), a 1999 novel by Howard Fast Redemption (Uris novel), a 1995 novel by Leon Uris The Redemption (novel), a 1936 novel by F. J. Thwaites The...
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Verne, Rick Riordan, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Higgins, Isaac Asimov and Leon Uris have not been included in the table because no exact figures could be...
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Zooey by J. D. Salinger To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Mila 18 by Leon Uris The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller Winnie...
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Preminger's epic film Exodus, based on the 1958 novel of the same name by Leon Uris, which tells the story of founding of the modern State of Israel. The...
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