{{short description|British television screenwriter}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2015}} {{Use British English|date=December 2015}} {{Infobox person |name=Jack Pulman |birth_date={{birth date|df=y|1925|7|11}} |birth_place=London, England |death_date={{death date and age|df=y|1979|5|20|1925|7|11}} |death_place=London, England |occupation=Screenwriter, television writer |spouse={{marriage|Barbara Young|1956}} |children=Liza Pulman<br />Cory Pulman }}
'''Jack Pulman''' (11 July 1925 – 20 May 1979) was a British television screenwriter, most famous for the 1976 BBC television series, ''I, Claudius'', based on the novels ''I, Claudius'' and ''Claudius the God'' by Robert Graves.<ref>{{cite news |title=Imperial Rome Writ Large and Perverse (Published 2012) |work=The New York Times |date=23 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230716122431/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/arts/television/i-claudius-returns-in-a-35th-anniversary-dvd-set.html |archive-date=2023-07-16 |url-status=live |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/arts/television/i-claudius-returns-in-a-35th-anniversary-dvd-set.html |last1=Vinciguerra |first1=Thomas }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Jack Pulman - About This Person - Movies & TV - NYTimes.com |website=The New York Times |url=http://movies.nytimes.com/person/107213/Jack-Pulman |access-date=12 April 2021 |archive-date=29 June 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130629092252/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/107213/Jack-Pulman |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>
==Biography== Born and raised in London, Pulman was renowned as "adaptor-extraordinary," having written teleplays for such literary works as, ''The Portrait of a Lady'', ''Jane Eyre'', ''Crime and Punishment'', ''David Copperfield'', and ''War and Peace''.
Pulman married Barbara Young in 1956. Together they had two children, including actress and singer Liza Pulman.<ref name="BYObit">{{cite news |last1=Hayward|first1=Anthony|author1-link=Anthony Hayward|title=Barbara Young obituary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/may/04/barbara-young-obituary|work=The Guardian|date=4 May 2023}}</ref>
He died of a heart attack in London on 20 May 1979.<ref name="BYObit" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/05/22/archives/jack-pulman-51-dramatized-i-claudius-other-bbc-shows.html|title = Jack Pulman, 51, Dramatized 'I, Claudius,' Other BBC Shows|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 22 May 1979}}</ref> His last screenplay, ''Private Schulz'', went into production after his death. His widow, Barbara Young, collected a posthumous writers award from The Royal Television Society for his work on the show in 1982.
He also wrote the screenplays for the 1970 film ''The Executioner'' and the 1971 film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's ''Kidnapped''.
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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0700474}} *{{Screenonline name|id=902192}}
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