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Charles Snow ( born August 6, 1916 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA, † November 29, 1963 in Beverly Hills, California ) was an American screenwriter and film producer.
Life
Charles Snow was educated at the renowned Yale University, where he earned a law degree. Initially working as a lawyer, he gave up his job mid-1940s in favor of his true passion, writing screenplays. His debut as a screenwriter was in 1946, although he only wrote additional scenes for the film of the novel From This Day Forward.
Snow effort to write a play for Broadway, was not successful because the piece Apology was performed in March 1943, only four days only eight times.
Snow 's best-known film should be the Western Red River, which was produced in 1948 with John Wayne in the lead role. Sustained the most successful and well known for snow was produced in 1952 film classic city of illusions, for which he was awarded the 1953 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. In the 1950s, became snow to film producers, and recorded as for the production of the 1957 war film The Eagle rotated equally responsible.
Charles Snow was last appointed President of the Writers Guild of America, a position he held from 1961 to 1962.
Snow died of unspecified reasons, at the age of 47 years.