Career
Dobbs's earliest work in the film industry was as a child actor in ''The Boy Who Turned Yellow'' (1972), a short film that was the last collaboration between director Michael Powell and the screenwriter/producer Emeric Pressburger. In 1979, Dobbs wrote ''Edward Ford'', an original screenplay that remains unproduced. Critic Matthew Dessem has called the script "famously brilliant, famously unproduced", and asserts that "most of Hollywood" agrees it is a "masterpiece". On the basis of another unproduced screenplay, ''The Marvel of the Haunted Castle'', Dobbs was hired to rewrite Diane Thomas's screenplay for ''Romancing the Stone'' (1984), though his contributions went uncredited. Following that film's success, several films based on Dobbs's screenplays were produced: ''Hider in the House (1989 film), Hider in the House'' (1989), ''The Hard Way (1991 film), The Hard Way'' (1991), ''Kafka (film), Kafka'' (1991), which Dobbs wrote in the 1970s, and ''The Limey'' (1999). He was also credited as co-writer on ''Dark City (1998 film), Dark City'' (1998), ''The Score (2001 film), The Score'' (2001), and ''Haywire (2011 film), Haywire'' (2012), an action-thriller directed by Steven Soderbergh (who also directed ''Kafka'' and ''The Limey''). Dobbs has spoken on DVD commentary tracks for his films ''Dark City'' and ''The Limey'', and (as a film historian) for the unrelated "In the French Style" (1963), ''Von Ryan's Express'' (1965), ''The Sand Pebbles (film), The Sand Pebbles'' (1966), and ''Double Indemnity'' (1945), the last due to his personal friendship with the director Billy Wilder.Filmography
Feature films
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