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Mayersberg, Paul (1941-)
 

Writer, Director

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Paul Mayersberg worked briefly in advertising before starting in films, worked as assistant to Joseph Losey and others, and was a founder-editor of Movie magazine and critic for New Society. In film, he has worked chiefly as a writer on some offbeat projects, including two for Nicolas Roeg, The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) and Eureka (UK/US, 1982), and on Croupier (UK/France/Germany/Ireland, d. Mike Hodges, 1998), rediscovered two years after its initial release. He is also the author of a provocative book about Hollywood art and commerce, Hollywood The Haunted House (1967).

Brian McFarlane, Encyclopedia of British Film

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