- Michael Wilson
Michael Wilson was an American multiple-Academy Award winning screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses during the era of McCarthyism. - George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856-2 November 1950) was an Irish dramatist, literary critic, and socialist. During his career Shaw wrote more than sixty plays. He was uniquely honoured by being awarded both a Nobel Prize (1925) for his contribution to literature and an Oscar (1938) for "Pygmalion". He was a strong advocate for socialism and women's rights, a vegetarian and teetotaller, and a harsh critic of formal education. - S. J. Perelman
Sidney Joseph Perelman, almost always known as S. J. Perelman (February 1 1904 - October 17 1979), was an American humorist, author, and screenwriter. He is primarily known for his humorous short pieces written over many years for "The New Yorker magazine". - Fred Guiol
Fred Guiol (17 February 1898 - 23 May 1964) was an American film director and screenwriter. Along with Ivan Moffat, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for adapting Edna Ferber's novel "Giant" into the film "Giant". He is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. - Alvin Sargent
Alvin Sargent (born in 1927 in Pennsylvania) is a multiple award-winning American screenwriter. Sargent graduated from Upper Darby High School in 1945. As of 2006, he is one of 35 alums to be on Upper Darby High School's Wall of Fame Sargent began writing for television in 1953 and through the 1960s he scripted episodes for various series such as "Route 66", "Ben Casey" and "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" amongst others. - Sidney Buchman
Sidney Robert Buchman (March 27, 1902 - August 23, 1975) was a film writer and producer who worked on 38 films from the late 1920s to the early 1970s. Born in Duluth, Minnesota and educated at Columbia University, he served as President of the Writers' Guild of America in 1941-1942. Sidney Buchman is remembered for writing films such as "Here Comes Mr. Jordan", "The Talk of the Town", and "Mr. - Ron Kovic
Ron Kovic was born on July 4, 1946, in Ladysmith, Wisconsin and grew up in Massapequa, New York. His autobiography, Born on the Fourth of July, was adapted as an Academy Award winning film directed by Oliver Stone and starring Tom Cruise as Kovic. Academy Award winning Actress Jane Fonda has stated that Ron Kovic 's story was the inspiration for her film Coming Home. - Dalton Trumbo
Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 - September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist, and a member of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who refused to testify before the 1947 House Un-American Activities Committee about alleged communist involvement. Born in Montrose, Colorado, Trumbo attended the University of Colorado for two years. The central fountain at the University was named in his honor in the mid-1990s. - Brian Helgeland
Brian Helgeland (born January 17, 1961 in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American movie writer and director, who graduated from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and received his undergraduate degree at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. In 1998, Helgeland became the first person to win both an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (for "L.A. Confidential") and a Razzie (for "The Postman") in the same year. - Frances Marion
Frances Marion (November 18, 1888 - May 12, 1973) was an American journalist, author, and screenwriter often cited as the most renowned female screenwriter of the twentieth century. Born Marion Benson Owens in San Francisco, California, she worked as a journalist and served overseas as a combat correspondent during World War I. On her return home, she moved to Los Angeles and was hired as a writing assistant by "Lois Weber Productions", … - Ted Tally
Ted Tally (born April 9, 1952) is an Academy Award winning American playwright and screenwriter. Born Theodore Tally in North Carolina, Tally was educated at Yale College and the Yale School of Drama, and has also taught at each of them. His most notable credit is the screenplay for "The Silence of the Lambs", which won him the Academy Award for Best Screenplay as well as the Writers Guild of America Award, … - Ernest Tidyman
Ernest Tidyman (January 1 1928 - July 14 1984) was a Cleveland-born American author and screenwriter, best known for his novels featuring the African-American detective John Shaft. He also co-wrote the film version of "Shaft" with John D.F. Black in 1971. His screenplay for "The French Connection" garnered him an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as a Golden Globe Award, a Writers Guild of America Award, and an Edgar Award. - Albert Hackett
Albert Hackett (February 16, 1900 - March 16, 1995) was an American dramatist and screenwriter. He almost always collaborated with his wife Frances Goodrich (December 21, 1890 - January 29, 1984). The Hacketts came to Hollywood in the late 1920s to write the screenplay for their stage success Up Pops the Devil for Paramount Pictures. In 1933 they signed a contract with MGM and remained with them until 1939. - Alfred A. Cohn
Alfred A. Cohn (March 26 1880-February 3 1951) was an author, journalist and newspaper editor, Police Commissioner, and screenwriter of the 1920s and 1930s. He is best remembered for his work on "The Jazz Singer", which was nominated for (but did not win) an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay in the 1st Academy Awards of 1929.) Cohn was born in Freeport, Illinois but subsequently moved to Cleveland, … - Albert Maltz
Albert Maltz was an American author and screenwriter who was one of the Hollywood Ten who were blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses during the era of McCarthyism. Brooklyn, New York, Albert Maltz was educated at Columbia University and the Yale School of Drama. Maltz worked as a playwright for the Theatre Union during the early 1930s and wrote his first of eighteen screenplays for Hollywood in 1932. - Bill Condon
Bill Condon (born William Condon on October 22, 1955) is an Academy Award winning American screenwriter and director. - Eric Roth
Eric Roth (born 1945) is an American screenwriter. He won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for "Forrest Gump" (1994). He also co-wrote the screenplay for Michael Mann's "The Insider" (1999) and for the Steven Spielberg film "Munich" (2005). He has a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from UCLA Film School. - Eric Maschwitz
Albert Eric Maschwitz OBE (10 June 1901-27 October 1969), known as Eric Maschwitz and sometimes credited as Holt Marvell, was an English entertainer, writer, broadcaster and broadcasting executive. Born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, the descendant of Silesian immigrants, Maschwitz was educated at Repton School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. - William Peter Blatty
William Peter Blatty (born January 7, 1928) is an American writer. He wrote the novel "The Exorcist" (1971) and the subsequent screenplay version for which he won an Academy Award - Nathaniel Benchley
Nathaniel Benchley was an American author. Born in Newton, Massachusetts to a literary family, he was the son of Gertrude Darling and Robert Benchley (1889-1945), the noted American writer, humorist, critic, actor, and, with Dorothy Parker, one of the founders of the Algonquin Round Table in New York City. - Daniel Taradash
Daniel Taradash, (29 January 1913 - 22 February 2003) was an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter. Taradash was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the only child son of a clothing manufacturer. He finished high school at age 16 in Miami and attended Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He moved to New York, won a playwriting contest, and earned the chance to take a course with Theresa Helburn, the head of the Theatre Guild. - Anthony Havelock-Allan
Sir Anthony James Allan Havelock-Allan, 4th Baronet (28 February 1904-11 January 2003) was a British film producer. Havelock-Allan was born at the family home of Blackwell Grange, near Darlington, and was educated at Charterhouse and schools in Switzerland. Before becoming a film producer, he had been a stockbroker, jeweller, record company executive and cabaret-manager. In 1935, Havelock-Allan joined the short-lived British and Dominions Imperial Studios, … - Tom Perrotta
Tom Perrotta (born August 13, 1961) is an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his novels "Election" (1998) and "Little Children" (2004), both of which were made into critically acclaimed, Golden Globe-nominated films. Perrotta co-wrote the screenplay for the 2006 film version of "Little Children" with Todd Field, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. - Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Noam Baron Cohen (born October 13, 1971) is an English comedian and actor most noted for his comic characters Borat (a Kazakh reporter), Ali G (a junglist from Staines, England) and Bruno (a flamboyantly gay Austrian fashion reporter). All three characters are featured in "Da Ali G Show", a programme in which Cohen conducts interviews while dressed as one of his three characters. - Phil Alden Robinson
Phil Alden Robinson (born March 1, 1950) in Long Beach, New York, is an American film director and screenwriter whose films include "Field of Dreams", "Sneakers", and "The Sum of All Fears". He graduated Union College in Schenectady, New York with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Union College in 1996. - Jules Furthman
Jules Furthman (March 5, 1888 - September 22, 1966) was a magazine and newspaper writer before working as a screenwriter. Born in Chicago, Illinois, during World War I he wrote under the name "Stephen Fox." Furthman wrote screenplays for a number of popular films including "Merely Mary Ann" (1931), "Shanghai Express" (1932), "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935), "To Have and Have Not" (1944), … - John Hodge
John Hodge (born in 1964 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a British screenwriter, most noted for his adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel "Trainspotting" into the script for the film of the same title. Raised in Glasgow, Hodge comes from a family of doctors and carried on the tradition by studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh. - William Broyles Jr.
William Broyles Jr. was brn October 8, 1944 in Houston, Texas, and was raised in Baytown, Texas. He attended Rice University, earning a B.A. in History in 1966. While at Rice, Broyles was an active member of the student body and a contributing editor to the student newspaper, The Rice Thresher. As early as 1966, Broyles was also contributing articles to the Houston Post. Broyles served as president of the Rice student association during the 1965-1966 academic year, … - Anthony Coldeway
Anthony W. Coldeway (August 1 1887-January 29 1963) was an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter who had an extensive career from 1910 through 1954. Although most of his work was on films, he did some writing for television and also was the director of a silent film, entitled "Her Great Dilemma", in 1917. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky. - Lenore J. Coffee
Lenore Jackson Coffee (b. 13 July 1896, San Francisco - 2 July 1984, Woodland Hills, California) was an American screenwriter who was twice nominated for an Academy Award for best Adapted Screenplay. The first time was for "Street of Chance" in 1929/1930, adapted from the story by Oliver H. P. Garrett, in collaboration with Howard Estabrook. The second was with Julius J. Epstein in 1938 for "Four Daughters", based on Fannie Hurst's novel, "Sister Act". - Neil Paterson
Neil Paterson (31 December 1916-19 April 1995) was an Academy Award winning screenwriter. Born James Edmund Neil Paterson in Greenock, Scotland, Neil Paterson's career started as a footballer, playing for the Scottish team Dundee United, who he became captain of, in the 1936-37 season. Despite his success in football he remained an amateur player, spurning the opportunity to go professional.. After his football career finished he became a writer, … - Norman Corwin
Norman Lewis Corwin (born May 3, 1910, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American writer, screenwriter, producer, essayist and teacher of journalism and writing. His earliest and biggest success was in the writing and directing of radio drama during the 1930s and 1940s. Corwin was among the first producers to regularly use entertainment -- even light entertainment -- to tackle serious social issues. In this area he was a peer to Orson Welles and William Robson, … - Christopher Bram
Christopher Bram (born 1952, Buffalo, New York) is a writer. - Scott Frank
Scott Frank (born March 10, 1960) is an American screenwriter known largely for his work as a script doctor, creating drafts of other writers' original screenplays. His solo work on the screenplay for "Out of Sight" (1998) was nominated for an Academy Award and received an Edgar Award, a National Society of Film Critics Award, and a Writers Guild of America Award. He recently completed filming his first feature as a director, "The Lookout", … - Peter Hedges
Peter Hedges (born July 6, 1962) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and film director. Hedges grew up in West Des Moines, Iowa, and attended Valley High School, where he was involved in the theater department, including the improv group and the mime troupe, "The Baker's Dozen." He later went to the North Carolina School of the Arts. His novel "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" was adapted into a critically acclaimed movie of the same title, … - Millen Brand
Millen Brand was a bestselling American writer and poet. His novels "Savage Sleep" and "The Outward Room," which addressed mental health institutions, were bestsellers in the 1940s. - Simon Moore
Simon Moore wrote "Traffik"; his work on that miniseries was the basis for the Oscar-winning adaptation written for "Traffic". He is also the writer and director of the 1991 film "Under Suspicion" He also wrote the cult fantasy mini series "The Tenth Kingdom"(2000). - Dan Mazer
Dan Mazer (born 1971) is an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, TV/Film producer, and comedian. He is best known as the long-time writing and production partner of Sacha Baron Cohen and has worked with him on such characters as Ali G and Borat. Along with the TV personalities he produced, Dan also helped produce 2 feature films: "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" and "Ali G Indahouse". - John W. Cunningham
John W. Cunningham (July 28, 1915 - June 4, 2002) was an American author who composed a number of Western novels and stories. During the Second World War, he served in the U.S. Army in the South Pacific. While living in Santa Barbara, California, he became a published novelist. He moved to Ashland, Oregon in 1985 where he lived until his death. His most famous work was 'The Tin Star', a short story which appeared in Colliers Magazine in 1947. - Frank Perry
Frank Perry was an American stage and film director, producer, and screenwriter. Perry was born in New York City where as a teenager he began pursuing his interest in the theater with a job as a parking lot attendant for the Westport Country Playhouse in nearby Westport, Connecticut. He would develop his talents to where he produced several plays at Westport then turned for a time to producing television documentaries.
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