Displaced Person (American Playhouse)

Displaced Person is a 1985 Emmy Award-winning episode of American anthology television series American Playhouse, based on a short story by Kurt Vonnegut. It was directed by Alan Bridges and adapted by Fred Barron from a story in the Welcome to the Monkey House collection. The title of the story in that collection was D.P.

As in many other Vonnegut works, the story is framed by World War II. In it a black German orphan looking for his father finds instead a black U.S. service member (played by Stan Shaw). The show won an Emmy for "Outstanding Children's program" for its producers, including Barry Levinson.^[1]

References

↑ "Outstanding Children's Program". 37th Primetime Emmy Awards: September 22, 1985. Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 22 February 2016.

External links

Displaced Person at the Internet Movie Database

Kurt Vonnegut

Bibliography

Novels	Player Piano (1952) The Sirens of Titan (1959) Mother Night (1961) Cat's Cradle (1963) God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965) Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) Breakfast of Champions (1973) Slapstick (1976) Jailbird (1979) Deadeye Dick (1982) Galápagos (1985) Bluebeard (1987) Hocus Pocus (1990) Timequake (1997)

Story collections	Canary in a Cat House (1961) Welcome to the Monkey House (1968) Bagombo Snuff Box (1999) God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999) Armageddon in Retrospect (2008) Look at the Birdie (2009) While Mortals Sleep (2011) Sucker's Portfolio (2013)

Collected essays	Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (1974) Palm Sunday (1981) Fates Worse Than Death (1991) A Man Without a Country (2005) Armageddon in Retrospect (2008) If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice to the Young (2013)

Scripts	Fortitude (1968) Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1970) Between Time and Timbuktu (1972) Miss Temptation (1993)

Adaptations	Displaced Person (1958 / 1985) Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971) Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) Between Time and Timbuktu (1972) Next Door (1975) Slapstick of Another Kind (1982) Who Am I This Time? (1982) Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House (1991) Harrison Bergeron (1995) Mother Night (1996) Breakfast of Champions (1999) 2081 (2009)

Characters and concepts	Kilgore Trout Billy Pilgrim Eliot Rosewater Eugene Debs Hartke Rabo Karabekian RAMJAC Ilium Bokononism Granfalloon Ice-nine

Related	Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library

Family	Jill Krementz (second wife) Mark Vonnegut (son) Edith Vonnegut (daughter) Kurt Vonnegut, Sr. (father) Bernard Vonnegut (brother) Bernard Vonnegut, Sr. (grandfather)

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