| Two characters called Oxman appeared in the Perry Mason
book "The Case of the Dangerous Dowager". One is Sylvia Benson Oxman the
defendant and the other is her husband Frank Oxman. The book was
originally published in April 1937. The plot is that a child custody case
turns deadly after a stack of gambling IOUs is used against Perry's client.
The TV episode called "The Case of the Dangerous
Dowager" appeared in the 1958/9
season which first aired in the USA on 9 May 1959. Patricia Cutts played the defendant
Sylvia Benson Oxman and Gene Blakeley played her husband Frank Oxman. (Ellen Corby, Granma
on "The Waltons" appears as an old lady gambler.)
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| There is also a book Shadowtown by John Lutz published by
Mysterious Press in 1988 which has two NY cops Dets E.L.Oxman and Art Tobin They also appear in an earlier book The Eye.
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| A Toby Oxman appears as one of the leading
characters in Storytelling
written and directed by Todd Solondz. (Note:Alan Oxman edited Todd Solondz' "Welcome to the Dollhouse" (1995) and
"Happiness" (1998).) Toby Oxman (Paul Giamatti) is an
aspiring documentary filmmaker shooting a film on today's disaffected teens. Toby's focus
is the delinquent suburban youth in New Jersey, Scooby Livingston (Mark Webber), a
constant source of disappointment to his nouveau-riche, Jewish parents (John Goodman and
Julie Hagerty). Various tensions simmer in the Livingston household, both between parents
and children and between the underappreciated Salvadoran maid (Lupe Ontiveros) and her
employers.
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| A Vincent Oxman appears as a victim in an episode of the TV series
NYPD Blue. |
