Irving Ashkenazy

Name: Irving Ashkenazy
Alias: Izzy Ashcan
Hometown: The Bronx, New York, USA
Died: 1982-12-19 (Age:71)
Height: 188cm
Referee: Record
Pro Boxer: Record
Amateur Boxer: Record

Izzy Ashkenazy , University of Florida football player (teammate of fellow pro boxer Carlos Proctor). He later became a writer for radio, TV, and pulp magazines. His radio work included scripts for Orson Welles's "The Adventures of Harry Lime." In the mid-1950s he also appeared as an actor on TV.

• 1929 won FL AAU Boxing Championship at heavyweight
• 1930 won FL AAU Boxing Championship at heavyweight
• Reportedly won FL AAU Boxing Championship at heavyweight three times between 1928 and 1931

• 1929 Participated International Championships at Chicago

Radio

• Wrote "Three Who Found Death", based on Chaucer's "Pardoner's Tale" The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour (Rudee Valee Hour) April 12, 1934
• The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour (Rudee Valee Hour) October 4, 1934. Dramatization of, "The Happy Raven," by Irvin Ashkenazy, is heard.
• Wrote "the Hard Guy", April 1935

Pulp Stories

• The Headless Miller of Kobold's Keep (nv) Weird Tales (Jan 1937), reprinted in Magazine of Horror (Fall 1970) as by G. Garnet
• The Magnificent McCloskey (ss) Thrilling Sports (Nov 1947)
• Pop's Boy (ss) Fight Stories (Win 1948)

Television scripts/stories

• Terry and the Pirates (TV Series)

- The Green God (1953) ... (written by - as Irwin Ashkenazy)

• Front Page Detective (TV Series)

- Seven Seas to Danger (1952) ... (teleplay by) - Troubles with Doubles (1951) ... (written by) - Death of a Hero (1951) ... (teleplay) - The Devil's Bible (1951) ... (writer)