Charles G. Booth

Charles Gordon Booth ( born February 12, 1896 in Prestwich, Lancashire, † May 22, 1949 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California ) was a native of Great Britain American author and screenwriter, the 1946 Academy Award for best original story and an Edgar Allan Poe Award won for Best screenplay.

Life

Booth worked as a writer and wrote in 1926 Sinister house. A mystery story of Southern California, his debut novel. After his novel was the 1936 film The general died at dawn, directed by Lewis Milestone with Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll and Akim Tamiroff.

For the resulting over the Duquesne spy ring due to a fictional representation template for the film The House on 92nd Street (1945 ) by Henry Hathaway with William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan and Signe Hasso he won at the Academy Awards 1946 Oscar for best original story. In addition, he received this along with Barré Lyndon and John Monks Jr. 1946 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best screenplay.

He was also nominated in 1949 by Winston Miller for vengeance without mercy ( Fury at Furnace Creek, 1948) by H. Bruce Humberstone with Victor Mature, Coleen Gray and Glenn Langan for a WGA Award from the Writers Guild of America for the original template to a Western.

After his short story Caviar for His Excellency also created the film Moon over Parador (1988 ) by Paul Mazursky with Richard Dreyfuss, Raúl Juliá and Sonia Braga.

Publications

Filmography (selection)

Awards