Dr. Joyce Hooper Corrington (born August 5, 1936) is an American television and film writer. She was married to fellow soap-opera writer John William Corrington, who died in 1988. With her husband, she wrote five screenplays, ''

Von Richthofen and Brown ''Von Richthofen and Brown'', alternatively titled ''The Red Baron'', is a 1971 war film directed by Roger Corman and starring John Phillip Law and Don Stroud as Manfred von Richthofen and Roy Brown. Although names of real people are used and ...

'' (1969), ''

The Omega Man ''The Omega Man'' (stylized as ''The Ωmega Man'') is a 1971 American post-apocalyptic action film directed by Boris Sagal and starring Charlton Heston as a survivor of a pandemic. It was written by John William Corrington and Joyce Corrington, b ...

'' (1971), ''

Boxcar Bertha ''Boxcar Bertha'' is a 1972 American romantic crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and produced by Roger Corman, from a screenplay by Joyce H. Corrington and John William Corrington, Made on a low budget, the film is loose adaptation o ...

'' (1971), '' The Arena'' (1972), and ''

Battle for the Planet of the Apes ''Battle for the Planet of the Apes'' is a 1973 American science fiction film directed by J. Lee Thompson. It is the fifth and final installment in the original ''Planet of the Apes'' series, produced by Arthur P. Jacobs, following ''Conquest of ...

'' (1973), and a television film, '' The Killer Bees'' (1974). Dr. Corrington also served as Director of Research in Science and Associate Professor of Chemistry at

Xavier University of Louisiana Xavier University of Louisiana (also known as XULA) is a private, historically black, Catholic university in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is the only Catholic HBCU and, upon the canonization of Katharine Drexel in 2000, became the first Cathol ...

, in

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. She is also known for creating the short-lived soap opera ''

Texas Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...

'' along with her husband John and fellow soap-opera colleague

Paul Rauch Paul Rauch (1930 – December 10, 2012) was an American television and film producer. Rauch's work was primarily in American soap operas. Career Rauch's earlier jobs included Vice President, Programs-East Coast for CBS, Supervising Producer for ...

. She also wrote for other serials, including ''

Search for Tomorrow ''Search for Tomorrow'' is an American television soap opera. It began its run on CBS on September 3, 1951, and concluded on NBC, 35 years later, on December 26, 1986. Set in the fictional town of Henderson in an unspecified state, the show fo ...

'', '' General Hospital'', and '' One Life to Live''. Her most recent position was as a producer and story editor for MTV's " The Real World."

Selected filmography

'' *Screenwriter (1971) ''

'' *Screenwriter (1972) ''

'' *Co-creator (with John William Corrington and Paul Rauch) *Co-Head Writer: 1980–1981 ''

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'' * Co-Head Writer: 1982–1983 '' General Hospital'' * Co-Head Writer: 1983 '' One Life to Live'' * Co-Head Writer: 1983 ''Superior Court'' * Co-Head Writer: 1987–1989

References

External links

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John and Joyce Corrington collection
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The Historic New Orleans Collection
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