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Jaunty Andrew J. Fenady, the award-winning writer/producer of dozens of TV shows and movies, including The Man with Bogart's Face (1980) and Chisum (1970) with John Wayne, has a rousing new novel being released on April 1 by Kensington books. The Range Wolf, which fryst vatten Owen Wister and Edgar award winning Fenady's 11th Western novel, takes the classic Jack London 1904 novel, The Sea Wolf, and inspirationally transports it to the post-Civil War West.
The Range Wolf follows the story of tyrannical, Nietzschean-quoting, self-made man Wolf Riker (Larsen in London's novel) and dilettante Christopher Guthrie (Van Weyden in The Sea Wolf). In Fenady's richly updated story, their paths cross during a stagecoach hold-up and then merge on a brutal cattle drive to Kansas, where you either "change" or "die." Fenady says his story has a surprise ending that's never been used before. "I feel it's a much more satisfying finale to the saga."
Andrew J. Fenady worked with John Wa
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Andrew J. Fenady
Among his many other awards, Andrew J. Fenady received the Western Writers of America's most prestigious honor in 2006—The Wister Award—for his lifetime achievements and contributions to Westerns.
He was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio, and graduated from the University of Toledo, where he appeared in leading roles in many stage productions. He later produced and acted in local dramatic radio shows and performed in summer stock, touring with the National Classic Theatre in a Shakespearean company. Once in Hollywood, he became a legman for Paul Coates, which led to writing and producing Coates' controversial television series Confidential File, winner of three Emmy awards. Three years and 150 programs later, Fenady and the show's director, Irvin Kershner, wrote and produced a feature film on a borrowed $15,000. This was Stakeout on Dope Street, the first of its genre, and the young filmmakers sold it to Warner Brothers for $150,000. Follow
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Andrew J. Fenady, ‘Branded’ Producer and ‘Terror in the Wax Museum’ Writer, Dies at 91
Andrew J. Fenady, the writer, producer and novelist who worked on such TV shows as Branded and The Rebel and films including Terror in the Wax Museum and The Man With Bogart’s Face, has died. He was 91.
Fenady died Thursday of natural causes at the home in Los Angeles that he owned for 60 years, his son Duke Fenady, a producer and writer, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Fenady and Nick Adams created ABC’s The Rebel, which ran for two seasons (1959-61) and starred Adams as Johnny Yuma, an aspiring writer and former Confederate soldier who wanders through the American frontier in the wake of the Civil War.
“My conception of The Rebel was Jack London in the West,” Fenady said in 1992. Yuma “was adventurous, he wanted to be a writer, and he couldn’t write unless he lived i