Edmund H. North

Edmund H. North ( born March 12, 1911 in New York City, New York; † August 28, 1990 in Santa Monica, California ) was an American screenwriter who with Francis Ford Coppola for the war film Patton 1971 - rebel in uniform the Oscar for best Original Screenplay was awarded.

Biography

North began in the 1930s as a screenwriter and author of action templates in film productions and acted in 1934 as the author of the romantic musical comedy All the King 's Horses by Frank Tuttle for the first time during the making of a film.

Other famous movies he has written screenplays and templates were One Night of Love ( 1934) by Victor Schertzinger The road of successful ( 1949) by Michael Curtiz, A Lonely Place ( 1950) by Nicholas Ray, The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 ) by Robert Wise, Sink the Bismarck ( 1960) by Lewis Gilbert and rebellion (1962 ) by Lewis Gilbert. In 1967 he was awarded for his services to the Valentine Davies Award from the Writers Guild of America.

Together with Francis Ford Coppola in 1971, he received not only the Oscar for best original screenplay for Patton - Rebell in Uniform ( 1970) by Franklin J. Schaffner, but also the price of the Writers Guild of America (WGA Award) for Best Screenplay.

North also received the 1975 Morgan Cox Award from the WGA and wrote the screenplay for the last science fiction movie Meteor (1979 ) by Ronald Neame. He was married to screenwriter Eleanor Hall and had with her the children Susie North and North Bobbie, who participated in a documentary about her father for the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) 2008.

Filmography (selection)

• * 1934: The shining goal ( One Night of Love )