Jerome Coopersmith also wrote screenplays for TV movies and specials which aired on the major networks in the 1970s and 80s. His first feature film of this era, ""Mr. Inside/Mr. Outside"", was originally planned as a series pilot, and was produced by Philip D'Antoni (""The French Connection"") in 1973. The movie starred Tony LoBianco and Hal Linden as cops thwarting a gang of diamond smugglers. In 1973, Coopersmith wrote the screenplay for ""'Twas The Night Before Christmas"" an animated adaptation of Clement Moore's classic poem ""A Visit From Saint Nicholas"". The Rankin/Bass production featured voices by Joel Grey, George Gobel, Tammy Grimes,
Nicholas Moore Nicholas Moore Nicholas Moore (16 November 1918 – 26 January 1986) was an English poet, associated with the New Apocalyptics in the 1940s, whose reputation stood as high as Dylan Thomas’s. He later dropped out of the literary world. Moore was born in Cambridge, England, the elder child of the philosopher G. E. Moore and Dorothy Ely. His paternal uncle was the poet, artist and critic Thomas Sturge Moore, his maternal grandfather was OUP editor and author George Herbert Ely and his brother was the composer Timothy Moore (1922-2003). He was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford, Leighton Park