Edwin O'Connor

Edwin O'Connor was born on Jul 29, 1918 in USA. Edwin O'Connor's big-screen debut came with The Last Hurrah directed by John Ford in 1958. Edwin O'Connor is known for The Last Hurrah directed by Vincent Sherman, Carroll O'Connor stars as Frank Skeffington and Leslie Ackerman as Prudy Cass. The upcoming new movie Edwin O'Connor plays is The Last Hurrah which will be released on Nov 16, 1977.

Born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1918, Edwin O'Connor spent his early life in Woonsocket and, from La Salle Academy in Providence, went on to the University of Notre Dame. After graduation in 1939, he worked as a radio announcer. During World War II, he served in the Coast Guard for three years, then went to Boston to work as a writer-producer for the Yankee Network. One year later, in 1946, he left radio and became a free-lance writer. In that year he sold his first magazine piece, a satire on radio, to the Atlantic Monthly; a year later he sold his first short story to the same magazine.