Fred Feldkamp

Fred J. Feldkamp (March 2, 1914 - December 7, 1981) was an American writer, editor and film producer.

Career

In the late 1930s, Feldkamp edited a magazine called "For Men" that carried stories by authors such as Irving Wallace, Zane Grey, James Thurber and Will Cuppy. In 1949, he directed a film called "Crusade in Europe: War Declared!". Films he produced were "Operation Manhunt" (1954) and "The Silken Affair" (1956). Feldkamp was a close friend of humorist Will Cuppy. After Cuppy died in 1949, Feldkamp sorted through thousands of Cuppy's notes to finish writing "The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody", a satire on history that Cuppy had been working on for many years. It appeared in 1950. In 1951, Feldkamp published a comic almanac, "How to Get from January to December", based on more of Cuppy's notes. Feldkamp wrote two books of his own on travel: "The Good Life...or What's Left of It" (1972) ISBN 978-0-06-122480-5, which he co-authored with his wife Phyllis; and "Not Everybody's Europe" (1976) ISBN 978-0-06-122481-2.

Feldkamp died in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.

References

Obituary, "The New York Times", December 8, 1981 (Late City Final), D31 at col. 4.