Mickey Rose

Michael "Mickey" Rose (May 20, 1935 – April 7, 2013) was an American comedy writer, screenwriter and film director.

Life and career Rose was born in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and spent his childhood there and in Crown Heights in the same borough of New York City, and was raised by a single mother, Sylvia Subin, his father having deserted the family by the time he was born. He and Woody Allen, then known as Allan Stewart Königsberg, first met at their high school, and became close friends, frequently skipping school, and playing jazz and baseball together. They matriculated at New York University, from which Rose earned a bachelor's degree in film, although Allen dropped out. The two remained friends for the remainder of Rose's life. After Allen had become a stand-up comedian, Rose co-wrote "The Moose" routine with him. Around this time, they collaborated with others on the English adaptation of a Japanese spy film, which was turned into What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966), Allen's first film as director.

Later the two men collaborated on Allen's comedies Take the Money and Run (1969) and Bananas. His other screenplays for films were for I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now? (1975) and Student Bodies (1981); he also directed the latter.