Edward Anhalt
Edward Anhalt ( born March 28, 1914 in New York City, New York; † 3 September 2000 in Pacific Palisades, California ) was an American screenwriter.
Life
Anhalt studied at Columbia University and worked in the 1930s and 1940s as a staff writer for television. His first feature film as a screenwriter was Irving Allen's B- Movie Avalanche dating back to 1946. Until 1950, he continued writing for smaller film productions, but then he wrote with his then wife Edna Anhalt, the template for Elia Kazan's film noir Panic in the Streets, for which both with have won the Oscar. Another nomination for the Oscar was awarded the couple three years later for the thriller The Sniper director Edward Dmytryk of with Adolphe Menjou in the lead role.
In addition to his own works, he was also often tasked with adaptations, among other things, he worked on literary models by Frank Gill Slaughter, Irwin Shaw and Tom Wolfe for the screen. He received a second Oscar in 1964 for screenplay adaptation of the play Becket or the Honour of God by Jean Anouilh about the English bishop and saint Thomas Becket.