Jerome Alden; Playwright, Scriptwriter
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Jerome Alden, a writer whose work included “Bully,” a one-man show about Theodore Roosevelt that was toured by actor James Whitmore, has died. He was 76.
Alden, who wrote “Bully” in 1977, died Sunday in New York of kidney cancer.
As a playwright and scriptwriter for television documentaries, Alden was best known for his works on the first President Roosevelt. In addition to the Whitmore show, he wrote the musical “Teddy and Alice” in 1987.
Alden also wrote “Shakespeare Revisited,” an evening of Shakespeare readings by actress Helen Hayes and actor Maurice Evans that toured nationally in the 1960s.
Among his television credits were “The Truman Years” about President Harry S. Truman, “A Gathering of One” and “The American Adventure.”
Alden was executive story editor and writer for “Bicentennial Minutes,” a series of instant history lessons aired by CBS in 1976.
Born in Portland, Ore., Alden earned a degree in theater from the University of Oregon. He served in the Special Services during World War II.
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