Quick Facts

• NAME: Clifford Odets
• OCCUPATION: Activist, Theater Actor, Director, Playwright, Screenwriter
• BIRTH DATE: July 18, 1906
• DEATH DATE: c. August 18, 1963
• PLACE OF BIRTH: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• PLACE OF DEATH: Hollywood, California

Best Known For

Clifford Odets was the leading dramatist of the theater of social protest in the United States during the 1930s. He helped form the influential Group Theatre.