Began career at Billboard magazine; later became a radio publicist

Moved to Los Angeles when hired by producer Jerry Wald as a ghostwriter

Wrote first screenplay, "Living on Velvet"

First film with director Michael Curtiz, "Little Big Shot"

Broadway playwriting debut, "And Stars Remain", featuring Clifton Webb

Received first Oscar nomination for script to Curtiz's "Four Daughters"

Began collaboration with brother Philip G Epstein on Curtiz's "Daughters Courageous"

Scripted (with brother and two others) Curtiz's "Yankee Doodle Dandy"

Won Oscar for screenplay (written with brother and Howard Koch) for Curtiz's "Casablanca"

First producing credit, Vincent Sherman's "Mr. Skeffington"; also wrote screenplay with brother

Returned to Broadway with "Chicken Every Sunday"

Seventh and last film with Curtiz, "Romance on the High Seas"

Co-wrote (with brother) book for "Saturday Night", a musical with a score by Stephen Sondheim; project abandoned when producer Lemuel Ayres died; produced in England in 1998

First screen collaboration with Richard Brooks, co-adapted "The Last Time I Saw Paris" with brother Philip

Adapted Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" for movie directed by Brooks; last writing collaboration with brother

First collaboration with Joshua Logan, "Tall Story"

Wrote screenplay for Robert Ellis Miller's feature directing debut, "Any Wednesday"; last film for six years

Picked up third Academy Award nomination for adapted screenplay for "Pete 'n' Tillie"

Wrote screenplay (with Herbert Asmondi) for Sam Peckinpaugh's only war movie, "Cross of Iron", adapting Willi Heinrich's book "Das Geduldige Fleisch"

Collaborated with Max Shulman on the comedy "House Calls"

Reteamed with Robert Ellis Miller for "Reuben, Reuben"; co-produced and wrote screenplay, adapting source material (Herman Shumlin's play "Spofford" and a Peter de Vries novel); son Philip served as an associate producer; received Academy Award nomination for screenplay

"Saturday Night", with book credited only to Julius; produced in London

Off-Broadway premiere of "Saturday Night"