National Film Registry Writers
by majfoalbkeopaza | created - 06 May 2018 | updated - 3 months ago | Public
101. Robert Rodriguez
Producer | El mariachi
Robert Anthony Rodriguez was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, USA, to Rebecca (Villegas), a nurse, and Cecilio G. Rodríguez, a salesman. His family is of Mexican descent.
Of all the people to be amazed by the images of John Carpenter's 1981 sci-fi parable, Escape from New York (1981), none ...
El mariachi (1992) (written by) - 2011
102. George A. Romero
Writer | Land of the Dead
George A. Romero never set out to become a Hollywood figure; by all indications, though, he was very successful. The director of the groundbreaking "Living Dead" films was born February 4, 1940 ,in New York City to Ann (Dvorsky) and Jorge Romero. His father was born in Spain and raised in Cuba, and...
Night of the Living Dead (1968) (screenplay)(as George Romero) - 1999
103. Paul Schrader
Writer | First Reformed
Although his name is often linked to that of the "movie brat" generation (Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Brian De Palma, etc.) Paul Schrader's background couldn't have been more different than theirs. His strict Calvinist parents refused to allow him to see a...
Taxi Driver (1976) (written by) - 1994 Raging Bull (1980) (screenplay) - 1990
104. Steven Soderbergh
Director | Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Steven Andrew Soderbergh was born on January 14, 1963 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, the second of six children of Mary Ann (Bernard) and Peter Soderbergh. His father was of Swedish and Irish descent, and his mother was of Italian ancestry. While he was still at a very young age, his family moved to ...
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) (written by) - 2006
105. Robert Towne
Writer | Chinatown
Writer, director, producer, actor. Born in Los Angeles, California, USA, and raised in the seaport town of San Pedro. Got his start acting and writing for legendary exploitation director/producer Roger Corman. Came into his own during the 1970s when he was regarded as one of the finest ...
Bonnie and Clyde (1967) (uncredited) - 1992 Chinatown (1974) (written by) - 1991
106. Peter Ustinov
Actor | Spartacus
Peter Ustinov was a two-time Academy Award-winning film actor, director, writer, journalist and raconteur. He wrote and directed many acclaimed stage plays and led numerous international theatrical productions.
He was born Peter Alexander Freiherr von Ustinow on April 16, 1921 in Swiss Cottage, ...
Spartacus (1960) (uncredited) - 2017
107. Steven Zaillian
Writer | Searching for Bobby Fischer
Steven Zaillian was born on January 30, 1953 in Fresno, California, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), The Irishman (2019) and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011). He is married to Elizabeth Zaillian. They have two children.
Schindler's List (1993) (screenplay) - 2004
108. David Zucker
Writer | Airplane!
Born on October 16, 1947 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, director/writer/producer David Zucker, along with brother Jerry (Ghost, 1990) Zucker and longtime friend, Jim (Hot Shots, 1991) Abrahams, has established himself among Hollywood's (or at least Wisconsin's) most successful filmmakers.
Starting ...
Airplane! (1980) (written for the screen by) - 2010
109. Kenneth Anger
Director | Fireworks
Kenneth Anger grew up in Hollywood and started out as a child actor, but his interest in filmmaking was evident at an early age: he made his first film, Who Has Been Rocking My Dreamboat (1941) , at age 14.
Anger developed into one of the pioneers of the American underground film movement. His ...
Scorpio Rising (1963) (uncredited) - 2022
110. Peter Benchley
Writer | Jaws
Grandson of famed humorist and actor Robert Benchley and the son of highly respected children's books author Nathaniel Benchley, novelist Peter Benchley's book were decidedly more dramatic in their content and style than his father's, and usually centered on the world's oceans as a backdrop to his ...
Jaws (1975) (based on the novel by/screenplay) - 2001
111. Truman Capote
Actor | Murder by Death
Truman Capote was born on September 30, 1924 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Murder by Death (1976), The Innocents (1961) and Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961). He died on August 25, 1984 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) (based on the novel by) - 2012 In Cold Blood (1967) (based on the book by) - 2008
112. Arthur C. Clarke
Writer | 2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke was born in the seaside town of Minehead, Somerset, England in December 16, 1917. In 1936 he moved to London, where he joined the British Interplanetary Society. There he started to experiment with astronautic material in the BIS, write the BIS Bulletin and science fiction. During ...
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) (short story "The Sentinel"(uncredited)/screenplay) - 1991
113. Robert Downey Sr.
Actor | To Live and Die in L.A.
Robert Downey Sr. served in the army, played minor-league baseball, was a Golden Gloves champion and off-off Broadway playwright, all before he was 22 years old.
Downey was born in New York City, New York, the son of Elizabeth (McLoughlin), a model, and Robert Elias, who worked in hotel/restaurant ...
Putney Swope (1969) (written by)(as Robert Downey [a prince]) - 2016
114. Bob Fosse
Director | Cabaret
Bob Fosse was born on June 23, 1927 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Cabaret (1972), All That Jazz (1979) and Lenny (1974). He was married to Gwen Verdon, Joan McCracken and Mary Ann Niles. He died on September 23, 1987 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
All That Jazz (1979) (written by) - 2001
115. Samuel Fuller
Writer | Shock Corridor
At age 17, Samuel Fuller was the youngest reporter ever to be in charge of the events section of the New York Journal. After having participated in the European battle theater in World War II, he directed some minor action productions for which he mostly wrote the scripts himself and which he also ...
Pickup on South Street (1953) (screenplay) - 2018 Shock Corridor (1963) (written by) - 1996
116. Ruth Gordon
Actress | Rosemary's Baby
When Ruth Gordon convinced her father, a sea captain, to let her pursue acting she came to New York and studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She acted in a few silents made at Fort Lee, New Jersey, in 1915. She made her Broadway debut in "Peter Pan" as Nibs the same year. The next 20 ...
Adam's Rib (1949) (screen play) - 1992
117. Ernest Hemingway
Writer | To Have and Have Not
Ernest Hemingway was an American writer who won the Pulitzer Prize (1953) and the Nobel Prize in Literature (1954) for his novel The Old Man and the Sea, which was made into a 1958 film The Old Man and the Sea (1958).
He was born into the hands of his physician father. He was the second of six ...
The Killers (1946) (from the story by) - 2008
118. John Houseman
Actor | The Paper Chase
Academy Award-winning actor John Houseman's main contribution to American culture was not his own performances on film but rather, his role as a midwife to one of the greatest actor-directors-cinematic geniuses his adopted country ever produced (Orson Welles) and as a midwife to a whole generation ...
Citizen Kane (1941) (contributing writer)(uncredited) - 1989
119. Erich von Stroheim
Actor | Sunset Blvd.
Erich von Stroheim was born Erich Oswald Stroheim in 1885, in Vienna, Austria, to Johanna (Bondy), from Prague, and Benno Stroheim, a hatter from Gleiwitz, Germany (now Gliwice, Poland). His family was Jewish.
After spending some time working in his father's hat factory, he emigrated to America ...
Foolish Wives (1922) (story and scenario (as Erich Von Stroheim)/titles (uncredited)) - 2008 Greed (1924) (screen adaptation and scenario) - 1991 The Wedding March (1928) (writer) - 2003
120. Preston Sturges
Writer | Sullivan's Travels
Preston Sturges' own life is as unlikely as some of the plots of his best work. He was born into a wealthy family. As a boy he helped out on stage productions for his mother's friend, Isadora Duncan (the scarf that strangled her was made by his mother's company, Maison Desti). He served in the U.S....
The Power and the Glory (1933) (original screenplay) - 2014 The Invisible Man (1933) (contributing writer)(uncredited) - 2008 Twentieth Century (1934) (uncredited) - 2011 Imitation of Life (1934) (contributing writer)(uncredited) - 2005 The Lady Eve (1941) (written by) - 1994 Sullivan's Travels (1941) (written by) - 1990 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1943) - 2001 Hail the Conquering Hero (1944) (written by) - 2015
121. Anita Loos
Writer | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
While she is now best known for her book "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," Anita Loos was one of Hollywood's foremost early screenwriters. She began writing screen scenarios for the 'Biograph Company' at an early age (though not 12, as she later claimed), and the first to be produced, The New York Hat (...
The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) (uncredited) - 2016 Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) (titles) - 1989 Wild and Woolly (1917) - 2002 A Virtuous Vamp (1919) (scenario) - 2013 The Women (1939) (screen play) - 2007 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) (contributor to dialogue)(uncredited) - 2010
122. Robert C. Jones
Editor | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Robert C. Jones was born on March 30, 1936 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an editor and writer, known for It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963), Coming Home (1978) and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967). He was married to Sylvia Lee Hirsch and Jean Joyce Lunkley. He died on February 1, 2021...
Being There (1979) (uncredited) - 2015
123. Moe Howard
Actor | If a Body Meets a Body
Moe Howard, the "Boss Stooge" and brother of Stooges Curly Howard and Shemp Howard, began his acting career in 1909 by playing bit roles in silent Vitagraph films. At 17 he joined a troupe working on a showboat and also appeared in several two-reel comedy shorts. In 1922 he, brother Shemp and Larry...
Punch Drunks (1934) (story) - 2002
124. Caroline Thompson
Writer | Edward Scissorhands
Caroline Thompson was born on April 23, 1956 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. She is a writer and producer, known for Edward Scissorhands (1990), The Addams Family (1991) and The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993). She is married to Steve Nicolaides. She was previously married to Henry ...
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) (screenplay by) - 2023
125. Kevin Smith
Producer | Clerks
Kevin Patrick Smith was born in Red Bank but grew up in Highlands, New Jersey, the son of Grace (Schultz) and Donald E. Smith, a postal worker. He is very proud of his native state; this fact can be seen in all of his movies. Kevin is of mostly German, with some Irish and English, ancestry.
His ...
Clerks (1994) (written by) - 2019
126. F.W. Murnau
Director | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
F.W. Murnau was a German film director. He was greatly influenced by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Shakespeare and Ibsen plays he had seen at the age of 12, and became a friend of director Max Reinhardt. During World War I he served as a company commander at the eastern front and was in the German air ...
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931) (told by) - 1994
127. Andrew Stanton
Writer | WALL·E
Andrew Stanton has been a major creative force at Pixar Animation Studios since 1990, when he became the second animator and ninth employee to join the company's elite group of computer animation pioneers. As Vice President, Creative he currently oversees all shorts and feature projects at the ...
Toy Story (1995) (original story by/screenplay by) - 2005 WALL·E (2008) (original story by/screenplay by) - 2021
128. Robert Bolt
Writer | Lawrence of Arabia
Son of a small shopkeeper, he attended Manchester Grammar School. He later said that he made poor uses of his opportunities there. He went to work in an insurance office, but later entered Manchester University, taking a degree in History. A post-graduate year at Exeter University led to a ...
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) (screenplay) - 1991
129. Bob Kane
Writer | The Batman
Bob Kane was an American comic book writer and artist of Jewish descent, most famous for co-creating Batman and several members of Batman's supporting cast. Kane was inducted into the comic book industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1994 and into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1996.
Kane...
The Dark Knight (2008) (characters) - 2020
130. Larry Fine
Actor | Disorder in the Court
Larry began performing as a violinist at a young age. During his teenage years, he earned his living as a singer and boxer. At 18, Larry began working vaudeville with "The Haney Sisters and Fine" and in 1925, he joined Ted Healy and Moe Howard in the act that would eventually become The Three ...
Punch Drunks (1934) (story) - 2002
131. Tom Wolfe
Writer | The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe was born on March 2, 1930 in Richmond, Virginia, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for The Right Stuff (1983), The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. He was married to Sheila Berger. He died on May 14, 2018 in New York, USA.
The Right Stuff (1983) (based on the book by) - 2013
132. Tom Sito
Writer | The Lion King
Tom Sito was born on May 19, 1956 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is a director, known for The Lion King (1994), Shrek (2001) and Aladdin (1992). He has been married to Pat Sito since January 4, 1980.
The Lion King (1994) (story) - 2016
133. Walter Murch
Sound_department | The English Patient
Walter Murch has been editing sound in Hollywood since starting on Francis Ford Coppola's film The Rain People (1969). He edited sound on American Graffiti (1973) and The Godfather Part II (1974), won his first Academy Award nomination for The Conversation (1974), won his first Oscar for Apocalypse...
The Black Stallion (1979) (uncredited) - 2002
134. Phil Alden Robinson
Writer | Field of Dreams
Phil Alden Robinson was born on March 1, 1950 in Long Beach, Long Island, New York, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Field of Dreams (1989), Sneakers (1992) and The Sum of All Fears (2002). He has been married to Paulette Bartlett since September 26, 2009.
Field of Dreams (1989) (screenplay) - 2017
135. Gale Anne Hurd
Producer | The Terminator
Gale Anne Hurd was born on October 25, 1955 in Los Angeles, California. After graduating from Stanford University, she joined New World Pictures as executive assistant to Roger Corman, the company president. She worked her way up through various administrative positions and eventually became ...
The Terminator (1984) (written by) - 2008
136. John Lasseter
Writer | Toy Story 2
Although born in Hollywood, John and his twin sister Johanna were raised in Whittier near Los Angeles. His parents were Jewell Mae (Risley), an art teacher, and Paul Eual Lasseter, a parts manager at a Chevrolet dealership. His mother's profession contributed to his interest in animation and ...
Luxo Jr. (1986) - 2014 Tin Toy (1988) (story) - 2003 Toy Story (1995) (original story by) - 2005
137. Kimberly Peirce
Director | Boys Don't Cry
Kimberly Peirce was born on September 8, 1967 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA. She is a director and producer, known for Boys Don't Cry (1999), Stop-Loss (2008) and Carrie (2013).
Boys Don't Cry (1999) (written by) - 2019
138. John Singleton
Writer | Boyz n the Hood
Son of Danny Singleton, a mortgage broker, and Sheila Ward, a pharmaceutical company sales executive, and raised in separate households by his unmarried parents, John Singleton attended the Film Writing Program at USC, after graduating from high school in 1986. While studying there, he won three ...
Boyz n the Hood (1991) (written by) - 2002
139. Haskell Wexler
Cinematographer | Medium Cool
Two-time Academy Award-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler was adjudged one of the ten most influential cinematographers in movie history, according to an International Cinematographers Guild survey of its membership. He won his Oscars in both black & white and color, for Who's Afraid of ...
Medium Cool (1969) (written by) - 2003
140. Owen Wilson
Actor | The Royal Tenenbaums
Self-proclaimed troublemaker Owen Cunningham Wilson was born in Dallas, to Irish-American parents originally from Massachusetts. He grew up in Texas with his mother, Laura (Cunningham), a photographer; his father, Robert Andrew Wilson, an ad exec; and his brothers, Andrew Wilson (the eldest) and ...
Rushmore (1998) (written by) - 2016
141. Arthur Freed
Producer | An American in Paris
Producer, songwriter and author, brother to Ralph Freed, Walter and Ruth Freed. He was educated at the Phillips Exeter Academy, and became associated with Gus Edwards musical acts. He performed in vaudeville with Louis Silvers, with whom he wrote revues for New York restaurants. During World War I,...
The Wizard of Oz (1939) (uncredited) - 1989
142. Michael Hoenig
Composer | The Blob
Michael Hoenig was born on January 4, 1952 in Hamburg, Germany. Michael is a composer and writer, known for The Blob (1988), The Jewel of the Nile (1985) and Mermaids (1990).
Koyaanisqatsi (1982) - 2000
143. Richard Rodgers
Soundtrack | The Talented Mr. Ripley
He met Lorenz Hart in 1918 who was to write lyrics for Richard for the next 25 years. The produced many successful songs and musicals such as 'Pal Joey' and 'The Boys From Syracuse'. In 1943 Richard teamed up with Oscar Hammerstein to make a musical version of the play 'How Green Was Your Valley' ...
Oklahoma! (1955) (adapted from Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical play) - 2007
144. Sergio Donati
Writer | Raw Deal
Sergio Donati was born on April 13, 1933 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is a writer and actor, known for Raw Deal (1986), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) and Duck, You Sucker! (1971).
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) (screenplay by) - 2009
145. George Abbott
Writer | The Pajama Game
Legendary Broadway writer/producer/director George Abbott was born in 1887 in Forestville, New York. His father was mayor of Salamanca, New York, for two terms. In 1898 his family moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Abbott attended Kearney Military Academy. The family returned to New York, where Abbott...
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) (screen play) - 1990
146. Achmed Abdullah
Writer | The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Alexander Nicholayevitch Romanoff (Achmed Abdullah) was the author of numerous adventure and mystery stories, usually set in strange and exotic locations.
His father, Grand Duke Nicholas Romanoff, was a cousin of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his mother, Princess Nourmahal Durani, was the daughter ...
The Thief of Bagdad (1924) (screenwriter)(uncredited) - 1996
147. Helen Aberson
Writer | Dumbo
Helen Aberson was born on June 16, 1907 in Syracuse, New York, USA. She was a writer, known for Dumbo (1941), The Magical World of Disney (1954) and The Railways of Crotoonia (2017). She was married to Richard Mayer and Harold Pearl. She died on April 3, 1999 in New York City, New York, USA.
Dumbo (1941) (based on the book by)(uncredited) - 2017
148. Samuel Hopkins Adams
Writer | It Happened One Night
Journalist, author, biographer and historian Samuel Hopkins Adams was born along the banks of Lake Erie at Dunkirk, NY, on 26 January 1871. His parents were Myron, a ministe3r, and Hester Rose Hopkins Adams, the daughter of a theologian. Adams attended Hamilton College in Clinton, NY, and upon ...
It Happened One Night (1934) (based on the short story by) - 1993
149. Jane Addams
Writer | Shoes
Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1860 in Cedarville, Illinois, USA. She was a writer, known for Shoes (1916), Votes for Women (1912) and Mutual Weekly, No. 16 (1915). She died on May 21, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Shoes (1916) (novel) - 2014
150. James Agee
Writer | The African Queen
James Agee, Pulitzer Prize winning author, was born in Knoxville in 1909. The intense writer was to enjoy little real success in his lifetime, but after death won accolades. In 1958 he won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for his uncompleted biographical novel A Death in the Family. Agee also wrote ...
The African Queen (1951) (adapted for the screen by) - 1994 The Night of the Hunter (1955) (screenplay by) - 1992
151. Daniel Ahern
Writer | Bulldog Edition
Daniel Ahern is known for Bulldog Edition (1936), Picture Snatcher (1933) and Wild Boys of the Road (1933).
Wild Boys of the Road (1933) (story "Desperate Youth")(as Daniel Ahearn) - 2013
152. George L. Aiken
Writer | Uncle Tom's Cabin
George L. Aiken was born on December 19, 1830 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer, known for Uncle Tom's Cabin (1914). He was married to Cannelyte or Carmelyte ?. He died on April 27, 1876 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA.
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1914) (play) - 2012
153. Marian Ainslee
Writer | Carefree
Marian Ainslee was born on January 5, 1896 in Marceline, Missouri, USA. Marian was a writer, known for Carefree (1938), Annie Laurie (1927) and He Who Gets Slapped (1924). Marian was married to Albert Coonley. Marian died on April 2, 1966 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Foolish Wives (1922) (titles) - 2008 He Who Gets Slapped (1924) (titles) - 2017 Flesh and the Devil (1926) (titles) - 2006 Hallelujah (1929) (titles: in sound version)(uncredited in sound version)(uncredited) - 2008
154. Zoe Akins
Writer | Christopher Strong
Poet, playwright, novelist and screenwriter Zoë Akins was born on the day before Halloween in 1886 in Humansville, Missouri. She was home-schooled before attending the Monticello Seminary in Godfrey, Illinois, and Hosmer Hall in St. Louis for her education. Akins lived in St. Louis for many years, ...
Show Boat (1936) (contributing writer)(material unused)(uncredited) - 1996 My Man Godfrey (1936) (contributing writer)(uncredited) - 1999
155. Aladár László
Writer | Trouble in Paradise
Aladár László was born on October 10, 1896 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was a writer and actor, known for Trouble in Paradise (1932), Girl Rush (1944) and Pardon, tévedtem (1933). He was married to Margit Fellegi Laszlo. He died on September 16, 1958 in Los Angeles, ...
Trouble in Paradise (1932) (play)(as Laszlo Aladar) - 1991 Top Hat (1935) (play)(uncredited) - 1990
156. Robert Alan Aurthur
Writer | All That Jazz
Robert Alan Aurthur was born on June 10, 1922 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for All That Jazz (1979), The Philco Television Playhouse (1948) and The Lost Man (1969). He was married to Jane Wetherell, Virginia Lee Trexler and Bea Arthur. He died on November 20,...
Edge of the City (1957) (story/screenplay) - 2023 All That Jazz (1979) (written by) - 2001
157. Edward Albee
Soundtrack | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee was born on March 12, 1928 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He was a writer, known for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), A Delicate Balance (1973) and Qui a peur de Virginia Woolf? d'Edward Albee (2011). He died on September 16, 2016 in Montauk, New York, USA.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) (play)(uncredited) - 2013
158. Sholom Aleichem
Writer | Fiddler on the Roof
Sholom Aleichem (translated from Hebrew as a greeting "Peace be with you") was the pseudonym of Sholom Yakov Rabinovitz. He was born on February 18, 1859, in Pereyaslav near Kiev, Ukraine, in the Russian Empire. His father was a religious scholar and the family was trilingual. After his mother died...
Tevya (1939) (story "Khavah" and play "Tevye der Milkhiker") - 1991
159. Sherman Alexie
Writer | The Business of Fancydancing
Alexie is a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian born and raised in the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Washington. His father held various jobs, including truck driver and logger and his mother was a social worker. Alexie was born hydrocephalic and underwent a brain operation at the age of 6 ...
Smoke Signals (1998) (book/screenplay) - 2018
160. James Algar
Director | The African Lion
James Algar studied at Stanford where he developed his skills as a cartoonist by drawing for the university's satirical magazine, The Chaparral. He joined the Disney Organisation in 1934, initially as animator. He directed the classic "Sorcerer's Apprentice" segment of Fantasia (1940), as well as ...
The Living Desert (1953) (screenplay) - 2000
161. Nelson Algren
Writer | The Man with the Golden Arm
Nelson Algren, the author of two of the seminal works of post-World War II American letters ("The Man With the Golden Arm" and "A Walk on the Wild Side") was born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham on March 28, 1909 in Detroit, Michigan, into a Jewish family. His paternal grandfather, who was on Scandinavian ...
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) (from the novel by) - 2020
162. Joan Alison
Writer | Casablanca
Co-writer, with Murray Burnett, of "Everybody Comes to Rick's", a play sold to the Warner Brothers studio that became the basis of "Casablanca" (WB, 1942). Alison and Burnett were each paid one-off fees of $10,000 for rights to the first filming of the play, and received on-screen credit only for ...
Casablanca (1942) (play) - 1989
163. Gracie Allen
Actress | A Damsel in Distress
Gracie Allen was born on July 26, 1895 in San Francisco, California, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for A Damsel in Distress (1937), The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950) and The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939). She was married to George Burns. She died on August 27, 1964 in ...
Lambchops (1929) - 1999
164. J.T. Allen
Writer | The Lion King
J. T. Allen worked for seven years below the line on films like The Blues Brothers, Risky Business, Sixteen Candles, and The Breakfast Club. In 1984 he moved to Paris. He wrote a screenplay there and sent it to a friend in Hollywood. It sold. After moving to Los Angeles, he wrote several drafts of ...
The Lion King (1994) (additional story material) - 2016
165. Michael Allin
Writer | Flash Gordon
Michael Allin was born in 1944. He is a writer, known for Flash Gordon (1980), Enter the Dragon (1973) and Truck Turner (1974).
Enter the Dragon (1973) (written by) - 2004
166. Hans Christian Andersen
Writer | Frozen
Andersen experienced an unhappy childhood marked by deep poverty. When he was 14 years old, he left his parents' home and fled alone to Copenhagen. Here the director of the Royal Theater, Jonas Collin, took care of the child and gave him shelter and work. With his help, the young Hans Christian ...
The Little Mermaid (1989) (based on the fairy tale by) - 2022
167. Thom Andersen
Director | Los Angeles Plays Itself
Thom Andersen was born in 1943 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is a director and writer, known for Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003), The Thoughts That Once We Had (2015) and Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1975).
168. Ken Anderson
Writer | Cinderella
Ken Anderson was born on March 17, 1909 in Seattle, Washington, USA. He was a writer, known for Cinderella (1950), Robin Hood (1973) and The AristoCats (1970). He was married to Polly Anderson. He died on December 13, 1993 in La Cañada Flintridge, California, USA.
Cinderella (1950) (story) - 2018
169. Maxwell Anderson
Writer | All Quiet on the Western Front
James Maxwell Anderson was born in Atlantic, Pennsylvania, on December 15, 1888 to William Lincoln Anderson and Charlotte Perrimela (Stephenson) Anderson. The second child born to the couple, Anderson spent his formative years on his maternal grandmother's farm in Atlantic before the family moved ...
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) (adaptation) - 1990 Vertigo (1958) (contributing writer)(uncredited) - 1989 Ben-Hur (1959) (contributing writer)(uncredited) - 2004
170. Wes Anderson
Director | Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wesley Wales Anderson was born in Houston, Texas. His mother, Texas Ann (Burroughs), is an archaeologist turned real estate agent, and his father, Melver Leonard Anderson, worked in advertising and PR. He has two brothers, Eric and Mel. Anderson's parents divorced when he was a young child, an ...
Rushmore (1998) (written by) - 2016
171. Del Andrews
Writer | All Quiet on the Western Front
Del Andrews was born on October 5, 1894 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Del was a director and writer, known for All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Is That Nice? (1926) and The Hottentot (1922). Del was married to Edith E.. Del died on October 27, 1942 in Tonopah, Nevada, USA.
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) (adaptation) - 1990
172. Leonid Andreyev
Writer | He Who Gets Slapped
Leonid Andreev was born on August 21, 1871 in Orel, Russia. His father, named Nikolai Ivanovich Andreev, was a member of the provincial Russian Nobility and worked as a land inspector for the government. His mother, Named Anastasia Nikolaevna Andreeva (Pazkovska) belonged to the Polish Nobility. ...
He Who Gets Slapped (1924) (adapted from the play by) - 2017
173. Walter Anthony
Writer | The Man Who Laughs
Walter Anthony was born on February 13, 1872 in Stockton, California, USA. He was a writer, known for The Man Who Laughs (1928), The Ice Flood (1926) and Fighting the Flames (1925). He died on May 1, 1945 in Hollywood, California, USA.
Foolish Wives (1922) (titles) - 2008 The Phantom of the Opera (1925) (titles)(uncredited) - 1998 All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) (titles for silent version)(titles for silent version)(uncredited) - 1990
174. Paul Armont
Writer | Love Me Tonight
Paul Armont was born in 1874 in Rostov, Russia. He was a writer, known for Love Me Tonight (1932), Un soir de réveillon (1933) and Madame hat Ausgang (1931). He died on March 2, 1943 in Paris, France.
Love Me Tonight (1932) (based on a play by) - 1990
175. William H. Armstrong
Writer | Sounder, Part 2
William H Armstrong was a graduate of the Augusta Military Academy and Hampden-Sydney College and, for fifty-two years, taught ancient history and study techniques at the Kent School, a private school located in Connecticut. He was the author of fifteen books for both adults and children.
Sounder (1972) (novel) - 2021
176. Kelly Asbury
Actor | Gnomeo & Juliet
Among Kelly Asbury's many achievements, he directed UglyDolls (2019) and Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017). He also co-wrote the 3D computer-animated feature film Gnomeo & Juliet (2011).
Asbury's other past directorial efforts include the Oscar-nominated films, Shrek 2 (2004) and Spirit: Stallion ...
Beauty and the Beast (1991) (story by) - 2002
177. Ray Ashley
Writer | Little Fugitive
Ray Ashley was born on March 9, 1911 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and director, known for Little Fugitive (1953). He was married to Evelyn Kurinski. He died on August 25, 1960 in Weston, Connecticut, USA.
Little Fugitive (1953) (written by/screenplay) - 1997
178. Howard Ashman
Soundtrack | Beauty and the Beast
A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Howard Ashman moved to New York City in 1974 and began writing plays while working as an editor in a publishing house. His work attracted attention and he became WPA Theatre's artist director in 1977. In 1982, Ashman collaborated with composer Alan Menken on the ...
The Little Mermaid (1989) (additional dialogue) - 2022
179. Leopold Atlas
Writer | Story of G.I. Joe
Leopold Atlas was born on October 19, 1907 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Story of G.I. Joe (1945), Raw Deal (1948) and Child of Divorce (1946). He was married to Dorothy Miriam Cohen. He died on September 30, 1954 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Story of G.I. Joe (1945) (screenplay) - 2009
180. George Axelrod
Writer | The Manchurian Candidate
George Axelrod was born on June 9, 1922 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) and The Seven Year Itch (1955). He was married to Joan Axelrod and Gloria Washburn. He died on June 21, 2003 in Los Angeles...
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957) (play) - 2000 Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) (screenplay) - 2012 The Manchurian Candidate (1962) (screenplay) - 1994
181. Kroger Babb
Producer | Mom and Dad
Kroger Babb was born on December 30, 1906 in Lees Creek, Ohio, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Mom and Dad (1945), One Too Many (1950) and Summer with Monika (1953). He was married to Mildred Horn and Luella Sutton. He died on January 28, 1980 in Palm Springs, California, USA.
Mom and Dad (1945) (screenplay) - 2005
182. Richard Bagley
Writer | Within a Story
Richard Bagley was a cinematographer and writer, known for Within a Story (1955), Johnny Gunman (1957) and On the Bowery (1956). He was married to Jean Bagley. He died on February 25, 1961 in Bellevue Hospital Center, 462 1st Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
On the Bowery (1956) (uncredited) - 2008
183. Enid Bagnold
Writer | The Chalk Garden
Enid Bagnold was born on October 27, 1889 in Rochester, Kent, England, UK. She was a writer, known for The Chalk Garden (1964), National Velvet (1944) and National Velvet (1960). She was married to Roderick Jones and Frank Harris. She died on March 31, 1981 in England, UK.
National Velvet (1944) (novel) - 2003
184. Hettie Grey Baker
Writer | Tom Mix in Arabia
Hettie Grey Baker was born on July 12, 1881 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Hettie Grey was a writer and editor, known for Tom Mix in Arabia (1922), Burning Daylight: The Adventures of 'Burning Daylight' in Alaska (1914) and John Barleycorn (1914). Hettie Grey died on November 14, 1957 in Porters ...
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) (titles)(uncredited) - 1989
185. Béla Balázs
Writer | Die 3 Groschen-Oper
Béla Balázs was born on August 4, 1884 in Szeged, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was a writer and actor, known for The Threepenny Opera (1931), Sonntag des Lebens (1931) and Karl Brunner (1936). He was married to Anna Hamvassy and Edit Olga Hajós. He died on May 17, 1949 in Budapest, Hungary.
Grand Hotel (1932) (uncredited) - 2007
186. John L. Balderston
Writer | Gaslight
John L. Balderston was an American playwright, screenwriter, and journalist from Philadelphia. He specialized in creating horror and fantasy stories. He is primarily remembered for the time travel-themed play "Berkeley Squarte" (1926), the 1927 American adaptation of the play "Dracula", the ...
Dracula (1931) (from the play adapted by) - 2000 Drácula (1931) (play)(uncredited) - 2015 Frankenstein (1931) (based on the composition by) - 1991 Bride of Frankenstein (1935) (adapted by)(as John Balderston) - 1998 The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) (screen play) - 1991 Gaslight (1944) (screenplay) - 2019
187. Earl Baldwin
Writer | Doctor X
Earl Baldwin was born on January 11, 1901 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Doctor X (1932), Blondie Johnson (1933) and Lullaby of Broadway (1951). He was married to Mildred C. Lamb. He died on October 9, 1970 in Hollywood, California, USA.
Wild Boys of the Road (1933) (screenplay) - 2013
188. John Ball
Writer | In the Heat of the Night
Novelist John Dudley Ball was born in Schenectady, NY, in 1911, the son of a scientist. He grew up in Milwaukee, WI, and attended Wisconsin's Carroll College. After graduation he worked as a staff writer specializing in science for "Fortune" magazine, then went to work for the "Brooklyn Eagle" ...
In the Heat of the Night (1967) (based on a novel by) - 2002
189. Milt Banta
Writer | Sleeping Beauty
Milt Banta was born on November 1, 1922 in Ontario, California, USA. He was a writer, known for Sleeping Beauty (1959), Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953). He died on October 4, 1959 in Pasadena, California, USA.
Sleeping Beauty (1959) (additional story) - 2019
190. Leora Barish
Writer | Basic Instinct 2
Leora Barish is known for Basic Instinct 2 (2006), Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) and Venus Rising (1995).
Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) (written by) - 2023
191. William E. Barrett
Writer | Lilies of the Field
William E. Barrett was born on November 16, 1900 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Lilies of the Field (1963), Pieces of Dreams (1970) and Full Circle (1960). He was married to Christine M. Rollman. He died on September 14, 1986 in Denver, Colorado, USA.
Lilies of the Field (1963) (novel) - 2020
192. J.M. Barrie
Writer | Peter Pan
James Matthew "J. M." Barrie was a Scottish novelist and playwright. He had a distinguished career, but is primarily remembered for creating Peter Pan and his supporting characters. He used the character of Pan in the novel "The Little White Bird" (1902), the stage play "Peter Pan, or The Boy Who ...
Peter Pan (1924) (play) - 2000
193. Philip Barry
Writer | The Philadelphia Story
Philip Barry was born on June 18, 1896 in Rochester, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for The Philadelphia Story (1940), Holiday (1938) and High Society (1956). He was married to Ellen Marshall Semple. He died on December 3, 1949 in New York City, New York, USA.
The Philadelphia Story (1940) (based on the play by) - 1995
194. Bud Barsky
Producer | The Coast Patrol
Born Isador J. Barsky in the Ukraine in 1891, Bud Barsky emigrated to the US as a young man, gained experience in the film business with various production companies in New York, made his way to Hollywood, and by the time he was in his 20s had already become an independent producer. His career was ...
Tarzan and His Mate (1934) (story)(uncredited) - 2003
195. Jean Bart
Writer | The Squall
Jean Bart was born in 1877 in France. Jean was a writer, known for The Squall (1929), The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934) and The Mad Empress (1939). Jean was married to Emil Sarlabous. Jean died on March 6, 1955 in New York City, New York, USA.
Verbena trágica (1938) (screenplay) - 1996
196. Hall Bartlett
Writer | The Sandpit Generals
Hall Bartlett was born on November 27, 1922 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for The Sandpit Generals (1971), The Caretakers (1963) and Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973). He was married to Lupita Ferrer, Rhonda Fleming and Lois Butler. He died on September 7, 1993...
Airplane! (1980) (screenplay "Zero Hour")(uncredited) - 2010
197. Sy Bartlett
Producer | Cape Fear
Sy Bartlett was born on July 10, 1900 in Nikolayev, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Mykolaiv, Ukraine]. He was a writer and producer, known for Cape Fear (1962), The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939) and 13 Rue Madeleine (1947). He was married to Carol Weber, Patricia Owens, Ellen Drew and Alice...
Twelve O'Clock High (1949) (screenplay) - 1998
198. Jack Barty
Actor | The Sea Fiend
Jack Barty was born on December 31, 1888 in London, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for The Sea Fiend (1935), Oliver the Eighth (1934) and Take a Chance (1937). He died on November 25, 1942 in Streatham, London, England, UK.
Sons of the Desert (1933) (uncredited) - 2012
199. Hal Barwood
Writer | Warning Sign
Writer, director and producer Hal Barwood was born and raised in Hanover, New Hampshire. His father ran a local movie theater. Barwood graduated with honors with a BA in arts from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Hal then attended the University of Southern California's School of ...
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) (uncredited) - 2007
200. Ron Bass
Writer | Rain Man
Ron Bass was born on March 26, 1942 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Rain Man (1988), My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) and Entrapment (1999). He has been married to Christine Ann Thomas since June 3, 1978. They have two children. He was previously married to ...
The Joy Luck Club (1993) (screenplay) - 2020
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