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1. James Warner Bellah

Writer | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

In World War I, James Warner Bellah enlisted in the Canadian army and became a pilot overseas in the Royal Flying Corps, and later the Royal Air Force. In World War II he started as a lieutenant in the 16th Infantry Div., was detailed to the General Staff Corps before Pearl Harbor and became ...

2. Tonino Guerra

Writer | Amarcord

Legendary Italian screenwriter was born Antonio Guerra on the 16th of March 1920 in Sant'Arcangelo, Italy, south of Ravenna. He wrote several short stories, poetry and novels and in 1956 his first screenplay "Man and Wolves" (co-written by Elio Petri) was directed by Giuseppe De Santis. Three years...

3. Yoshikata Yoda

Writer | Ôsaka monogatari

Yoshikata Yoda was born on April 14, 1909 in Japan. He was a writer and cinematographer, known for An Osaka Story (1957), Ibo kyoudai (1957) and Death of a Tea Master (1989). He died on November 14, 1991 in Japan.

4. James M. Cain

Writer | Double Indemnity

James M. Cain was a 'Film Noir' author. His father was a professor, and president, of 'Washington College'. His mother was an opera singer in Maryland.

James graduated from the same college in 1910, and became a writer for 'Baltimore American', then 'Baltimore Sun' [still being published] by 1914. ...

5. Philip Dunne

Writer | Ten North Frederick

Philip Dunne was born on February 11, 1908 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and director, known for Ten North Frederick (1958), How Green Was My Valley (1941) and The Last of the Mohicans (1992). He was married to Amanda Duff. He died on June 2, 1992 in Malibu, California, USA.

6. Shinobu Hashimoto

Writer | Kakushi-toride no san-akunin

Shinobu Hashimoto was born on April 18, 1918 in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. He was a writer and director, known for The Hidden Fortress (1958), Harakiri (1962) and To Live (1952). He died on July 19, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan.

7. Charles Schnee

Writer | Red River

Charles Schnee was born on August 6, 1916 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Red River (1948), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) and The Crowded Sky (1960). He was married to Mary Zavian. He died on November 29, 1962 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, ...

8. Thea von Harbou

Writer | Metropolis

Thea von Harbou was born on December 27, 1888 in Tauperlitz, Döhlau, Bavaria, Germany. She was a writer and director, known for Metropolis (1927), M (1931) and Woman in the Moon (1929). She was married to Fritz Lang and Rudolf Klein-Rogge. She died on July 1, 1954 in Berlin, Germany.

9. Matsutarô Kawaguchi

Writer | Ugetsu monogatari

Matsutarô Kawaguchi was born on October 1, 1899 in Tokyo, Japan. He was a writer and director, known for Ugetsu (1953), Mabuta no haha (1952) and A Story from Chikamatsu (1954). He was married to Aiko Mimasu. He died on June 9, 1985 in Japan.

10. Hideo Oguni

Writer | Tengoku to jigoku

Hideo Oguni was born on July 9, 1904 in Aomori, Japan. He was a writer and director, known for High and Low (1963), To Live (1952) and Ran (1985). He died on February 5, 1996.

11. Carl Mayer

Writer | Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari

Carl Meyer was the son of a stock speculator who committed suicide. He had to leave school at 15 to work as a secretary. Mayer moved away from Graz to Innsbruck and then Vienna, where he worked as a dramatist. Meanwhile, the events of the First World War turned him into a pacifist.

In 1917 he went ...

12. John C. Higgins

Writer | Main Street After Dark

John C. Higgins was born on April 28, 1908 in Winnipeg, Canada. He was a writer, known for Main Street After Dark (1945), Raw Deal (1948) and The File of the Golden Goose (1969). He was married to Gail Otto. He died on July 2, 1995 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.

13. Anthony Veiller

Writer | The Killers

Anthony Veiller was born on June 23, 1903 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for The Killers (1946), The Stranger (1946) and The List of Adrian Messenger (1963). He was married to Ethel Grace (Rowley) Mellon Rose Hornburg, Laura Kerr and Elise LaRose. He died on ...

14. Herman J. Mankiewicz

Writer | Citizen Kane

Herman J. Mankiewicz, now known primarily as the man who co-wrote Citizen Kane (1941) with Hollywood's greatest wunderkind, Orson Welles, was one of the highest-paid screenwriters in Hollywood and the head of Paramount's screen-writing department in the late 1920s and early '30s. He reached the ...

15. Jean-Claude Carrière

Writer | The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Jean-Claude Carrière was born on September 17, 1931 in Colombières-sur-Orb, Hérault, France. He was a writer and actor, known for The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) and Cyrano de Bergerac (1990). He was married to Nicole Janin and Nahal Tajadod. ...

16. László Krasznahorkai

Writer | Werckmeister harmóniák

László Krasznahorkai was born on January 5, 1954 in Gyula, Hungary. He is a writer, known for Werckmeister Harmonies (2000), Satantango (1994) and The Turin Horse (2011).

17. Alain Robbe-Grillet

Writer | Un bruit qui rend fou

Born in Brest, France, in 1922, Alain Robbe-Grillet initially studied mathematics and biology. He graduated from the Paris-based Institut National Agronomique (National Institute of Agronomy) in 1945 and embarked on a career of scientific research in the tropics and in France. Then at age 30 he ...

18. Jean Gruault

Writer | Mon oncle d'Amérique

Jean Gruault was born on August 3, 1924 in Fontenay-sous-Bois, Val-de-Marne, Île-de-France, France. He was a writer and actor, known for My American Uncle (1980), Jules and Jim (1962) and The Story of Adele H (1975). He was married to Ginette Geslot. He died on June 8, 2015 in Paris, France.

19. Tullio Pinelli

Writer | La dolce vita

Tullio Pinelli was born on June 24, 1908 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. He was a writer, known for La Dolce Vita (1960), The Road (1954) and 8½ (1963). He was married to Madeleine Lebeau. He died on March 7, 2009 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

20. Ennio Flaiano

Writer | 8½

Ennio Flaiano was born on March 5, 1910 in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy. He was a writer and actor, known for 8½ (1963), La Dolce Vita (1960) and Nights of Cabiria (1957). He was married to Rosetta Rota. He died on November 20, 1972 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

21. Samson Raphaelson

Writer | Suspicion

Samson Raphaelson was born on March 30, 1896 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Suspicion (1941), The Shop Around the Corner (1940) and That Lady in Ermine (1948). He was married to Dorothy Deborah Wegman and Rayna DeCosta Simons. He died on July 16, 1983 in New York City, ...

22. Dudley Nichols

Writer | Sister Kenny

Dudley Nichols was born on April 6, 1895 in Wapakoneta, Ohio, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Sister Kenny (1946), The Informer (1935) and Stagecoach (1939). He was married to Esther "Esta" Varez. He died on January 4, 1960 in Hollywood, California, USA.

23. I.A.L. Diamond

Writer | The Apartment

I.A.L. Diamond was born on June 27, 1920 in Ungheni, Romania [now Moldova]. He was a writer and producer, known for The Apartment (1960), Some Like It Hot (1959) and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970). He was married to Barbara Diamond. He died on April 21, 1988 in Beverly Hills, California...

24. Nunnally Johnson

Writer | The Grapes of Wrath

The son of a railway superintendent, Nunnally Johnson was schooled in Columbus, Georgia, graduating in 1915. He worked for the local newspaper as a delivery boy, became a junior reporter for the Savannah Press and then moved on to New York in 1919. There, his journalistic career really took off, ...

25. Kôgo Noda

Writer | Banshun

Kôgo Noda is most famously know for working alongside Yasujiro Ozu in the writing of his screenplays for some of his most famous movies. Noda was born on November 19, 1893 and died at age 74 on September 23, 1968. He co-wrote some of Yasujiro's most famous films, for example: Tokyo Story (1953), ...

26. Lamar Trotti

Writer | Yellow Sky

Author and screenwriter, often preoccupied with American history as viewed from a Southern perspective. Born in Atlanta, Trotti studied writing at Columbia University and was also the first person to graduate from the University of Georgia's Henry Grady School of Journalism. In 1923, he became the ...

27. Jules Furthman

Writer | To Have and Have Not

Jules Furthman was a magazine and newspaper writer when he began writing for films in 1915. When the U.S. entered WWI Furthman used the name "Stephen Fox" for his screenplays because he thought his name sounded too German, but he reverted to his real name after the war. Furthman became one of the ...

28. Howard Koch

Writer | Casablanca

Playwright and author of sophisticated screenplays, a graduate of Bard College and Columbia University Law School. Howard Koch started out as a practicing lawyer in Hartsdale, New Jersey, but soon found himself dissatisfied with his career choice and began to write plays on the side. His first two ...

29. Jacques Natanson

Writer | La ronde

Jacques Natanson was born on May 15, 1901 in Asnières-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. Jacques was a writer and director, known for La Ronde (1950), Les gais lurons (1936) and Street of Shadows (1937). Jacques died on May 19, 1975 in Le Bugue, Dordogne, France.

30. Donald Ogden Stewart

Writer | The Philadelphia Story

Donald Ogden Stewart was born on November 30, 1894 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for The Philadelphia Story (1940), An Affair to Remember (1957) and Not So Dumb (1930). He was married to Leonore (Ella) Sophie Winter Steffens and Beatrice Ames. He died on August 2, 1980 in...

31. Jerry Wald

Producer | Key Largo

The son of a dry goods salesman, Jerry Wald was the go-getting Hollywood writer-producer of popular imagination: charismatic, ambitious, shrewd, frequently brilliant, and filled with a nervous energy driving him from one project to another. An avid reader, with an innate sense of literary judgement...

32. Suso Cecchi D'Amico

Writer | Ladri di biciclette

Suso Cecchi D'Amico was born on July 21, 1914 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She was a writer and actress, known for Bicycle Thieves (1948), The Leopard (1963) and Rocco and His Brothers (1960). She was married to Fidele d'Amico. She died on July 31, 2010 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

33. Ryûzô Kikushima

Writer | Tengoku to jigoku

Ryûzô Kikushima was born on January 28, 1914 in Japan. He was a writer and producer, known for High and Low (1963), Yojimbo (1961) and The Hidden Fortress (1958). He died on March 18, 1989 in Japan.

34. Samuel Hoffenstein

Writer | Laura

Lithuanian-born author and screenwriter, in the U.S. from 1894. Hoffenstein graduated from Lafayette College in Pennsylvania and subsequently went to work as a reporter for a local newspaper. By 1913, he had moved on to a position as a drama critic for the New York Evening Sun. At the same time, he...

35. Oliver H.P. Garrett

Writer | Careful, Soft Shoulders

Oliver H. P. Garrett was born on March 6, 1894 in New Bedford, Massachusetts to Legh Osborn and Alice Palmer Garrett. His father was an efficiency expert who passed away in 1899. His mother once operated a business that imported goods from India and the Far East and served with the YMCA in France ...

36. Budd Schulberg

Writer | On the Waterfront

Budd Schulberg was born on March 27, 1914 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for On the Waterfront (1954), Everglades! (1961) and A Face in the Crowd (1957). He was married to Betsy Ann Langman, Geraldine Brooks, Agnes Victoria Anderson and Virginia Ray. He died on...

37. Zenzô Matsuyama

Writer | Namonaku mazushiku utsukushiku

Zenzô Matsuyama was born on April 3, 1925. Zenzô was a writer and director, known for Happiness of Us Alone (1961), Niji no hashi (1993) and Burari burabura monogatari (1962). Zenzô was married to Hideko Takamine. Zenzô died on August 27, 2016 in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

38. Borden Chase

Writer | Red River

Prior to his career as a writer, Chase was employed as chauffeur for notorious prohibition-era gangster Frankie Yale -- until Yale was 'rubbed out' by Al Capone's mob in July 1928. Chase, then still going by the more prosaic name Frank Fowler, as well Yale's other regular driver, James Caponi, were ...

39. Ben Hecht

Writer | Notorious

Ben Hecht, one of Hollywood's and Broadway's greatest writers, won an Oscar for best original story for Underworld (1927) at the first Academy Awards in 1929 and had a hand in the writing of many classic films. He was nominated five more times for the best writing Oscar, winning (along with writing...

40. George Wells

Writer | Designing Woman

The son of vaudevillian Billy K. Wells graduated from New York University and began as a writer for radio ('The Jack Pearl Show','Lux Radio Theater'). In 1943, he joined MGM under contract as a screenwriter, rapidly acquiring a reputation for lending a deft touch and inventiveness to light comedies...

41. Leigh Brackett

Writer | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Leigh Douglass Brackett was born in 1915 in Los Angeles. She was the author of numerous short stories and books regarding science fiction and has been referred to as the Queen of Space Opera. Hollywood director Howard Hawks was so impressed by one of her novels that he had his secretary call in "...

42. Julius J. Epstein

Writer | Casablanca

Julius J. Epstein was born on August 22, 1909 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Casablanca (1942), Reuben, Reuben (1983) and Pete 'n' Tillie (1972). He was married to Frances Sage and Ann Margot Laszlo. He died on December 30, 2000 in Los Angeles, California, ...

43. Sydney Boehm

Writer | The Big Heat

Sydney Boehm was born on April 4, 1908 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for The Big Heat (1953), The Atomic City (1952) and When Worlds Collide (1951). He was married to Ellen Kaspertia. He died on June 25, 1990 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

44. Walter Reisch

Writer | Gaslight

After completing studies in literature at the University of Vienna, Walter Reisch began his screen career as an extra and title writer in 1918. He eventually made the acquaintance of Stephan Lorant, a refuge from the Horty regime in Hungary, who, within a single year, had made a name for himself in...

45. Antonio Pietrangeli

Writer | Io la conoscevo bene

Antonio Pietrangeli was born on January 19, 1919 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for I Knew Her Well (1965), The Visit (1963) and March's Child (1958). He was married to Margherita Ferroni. He died on July 12, 1968 in Gaeta, Lazio, Italy.

46. Bernardino Zapponi

Writer | Profondo rosso

Bernardino Zapponi was born on September 4, 1927 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer, known for Deep Red (1975), Il marchese del Grillo (1981) and Casanova (1976). He died on February 11, 2000 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

47. Lewis Meltzer

Writer | Man-Eater of Kumaon

Lewis Meltzer was born on January 28, 1911 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Man-Eater of Kumaon (1948), The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) and Shark River (1953). He was married to Diane E. Wagy and Alethia Wilson. He died on February 23, 1995 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, ...

48. William Faulkner

Writer | To Have and Have Not

William Faulkner, one of the 20th century's most gifted novelists, wrote for the movies in part because he could not make enough money from his novels and short stories to support his growing number of dependants. The author of such acclaimed novels as "The Sound and the Fury" and "Absalom, Absalom...

49. Vitaliano Brancati

Writer | Anni facili

Vitaliano Brancati was born on July 24, 1907 in Pachino, Sicily, Italy. He was a writer, known for Anni facili (1953), Journey to Italy (1954) and Don Cesare di Bazan (1942). He was married to Anna Proclemer. He died on September 25, 1954 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.

50. Frank S. Nugent

Writer | The Quiet Man

Frank S. Nugent was an American screenwriter known for his collaborations with director John Ford. For a writer with only 21 feature films credited to his name, his influence is surprisingly ubiquitous and far-reaching. During his lifetime Nugent won two WGA Awards for Best Written Comedy for The ...

51. Samuel G. Engel

Producer | My Darling Clementine

Samuel G. Engel was born on December 29, 1904 in Woodridge, New York, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for My Darling Clementine (1946), Night and the City (1950) and She Had to Eat (1937). He was married to Ruth Mildred Franklin. He died on April 7, 1984 in Santa Cruz, California, USA.

52. Jerzy Andrzejewski

Writer | Popiól i diament

Jerzy Andrzejewski was born on August 19, 1909 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. He was a writer, known for Ashes and Diamonds (1958), Innocent Sorcerers (1960) and Gates to Paradise (1968). He was married to Maria Abgarowicz and Nona Barbara Siekierzynska. He ...

53. Toshirô Ide

Writer | Izu no odoriko

Toshirô Ide was born on April 11, 1910 in Japan. He was a writer and producer, known for Izu no odoriko (1967), Salary man Mejiro Sanpei: Teishu no tameiki no maki (1960) and Double Trouble (1963). He died on July 3, 1988 in Japan.

54. Yôko Mizuki

Writer | Kaidan

Yôko Mizuki was born on August 25, 1910 in Tokyo, Japan. She was a writer, known for Kwaidan (1964), Kiku to Isamu (1959) and Konki (1961). She was married to Senkichi Taniguchi. She died on April 8, 2003 in Ichikawa, Chiba, Japan.

55. Brunello Rondi

Writer | 8½

Brunello Rondi was born on November 26, 1924 in Tirano, Lombardy, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for 8½ (1963), La Dolce Vita (1960) and Il demonio (1963). He died on November 7, 1989 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

56. Alma Reville

Writer | Suspicion

Alma Reville was born on August 14, 1899 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK. She was a writer and assistant director, known for Suspicion (1941), Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and The 39 Steps (1935). She was married to Alfred Hitchcock. She died on July 6, 1982 in Bel Air, Los Angeles, ...

57. Masashige Narusawa

Writer | Hana fudâ tôsei

Masashige Narusawa was born on January 29, 1925 in Ueda City, Nagano, Japan. He was a writer and director, known for Hana fudâ tôsei (1967), Yuki Fujin ezu (1975) and The Body (1962). He died on February 13, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan.

58. Ernest Lehman

Writer | North by Northwest

One of the most critically and commercially successful screenwriters in Hollywood history, Lehman grew up on Long Island, graduated from NY's City College. One of his first jobs was as a copywriter for a Broadway publicist. This experience would later be reflected in his novel and screenplay, "...

59. Philip Yordan

Writer | Detective Story

Philip Yordan was born on April 1, 1914 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Detective Story (1951), Broken Lance (1954) and Dillinger (1945). He was married to Faith Clift and Marilyn Nash. He died on March 24, 2003 in La Jolla, California, USA.

60. Dalton Trumbo

Writer | Roman Holiday

Dalton Trumbo, the Oscar-winning screenwriter, arguably the most talented, most famous of the blacklisted film professionals known to history as the Hollywood 10, was born in Montrose, Colorado to Orus Trumbo and his wife, the former Maud Tillery.

Dalton Trumbo was raised at 1124 Gunnison Ave. in ...

61. Sam Shepard

Actor | August: Osage County

Sam Shepard was born Samuel Shepard Rogers in Fort Sheridan, IL, to Jane Elaine (Schook), a teacher, and Samuel Shepard Rogers, a teacher and farmer who was also in the army. As the eldest son of a US Army officer (and WWII bomber pilot), Shepard spent his early childhood moving from base to base ...

62. Sally Benson

Writer | Meet Me in St. Louis

Sally Benson was born in St. Louis on September 3 1897. Her family moved to New York, where she spent her formative years and was educated at the Horace Mann School. At the age of seventeen, she took her first job working at the National City Bank, 'singing into a dictaphone', as she later put it. ...

63. Catherine Turney

Writer | No Man of Her Own

Catherine Turney was born on December 26, 1906 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was a writer, known for No Man of Her Own (1950), My Reputation (1946) and One More Tomorrow (1946). She was married to George Reynolds and Cyril Armbrister. She died on September 9, 1998 in Sierra Madre, California, USA.

64. Ben Maddow

Writer | The Asphalt Jungle

Ben Maddow was born on August 7, 1909 in Passaic, New Jersey, USA. He was a writer and director, known for The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The Savage Eye (1959) and The Man from Colorado (1948). He was married to Flier, Freda. He died on October 9, 1992 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

65. Masato Ide

Writer | Ran

Masato Ide is a Japanese screenwriter and novelist. He has collaborated in writing the screenplay of over 50 movies including Akira Kurosawa's "Ran", "Red Beard" and "Kagemusha : The Shadow Warrior" or Yoshitarô Namuro's "Kichiku". He was born on January 1, 1920 in Saga, Japan and died on July 17, ...

66. Sergio Amidei

Writer | Roma città aperta

Sergio Amidei was born on October 3, 1904 in Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. He was a writer and producer, known for Rome, Open City (1945), Un borghese piccolo piccolo (1977) and General Della Rovere (1959). He died on April 14, 1981 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

67. Arlette Langmann

Writer | Germinal

Arlette Langmann was born on April 3, 1946 in Paris, France. She is a writer and editor, known for Germinal (1993), Jean de Florette (1986) and Passages (2023).