Ian McLellan Hunter
Ian McLellan Hunter ( born August 8, 1915 in London, † March 5, 1991 in New York City, New York) was a native of Great Britain American screenwriter, the 1993 in 1954 conferred by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to be Oscar was stripped for best original story, as the sole during the McCarthy era of the so-called blacklist standing Dalton Trumbo author of the original story was a heart and a crown, and only Hunter co-author of the script.
Life
A native of Great Britain Hunter moved as an infant with his parents to the United States and began his career as a screenwriter in the film industry in Hollywood in 1939 with the film Fisherman's Wharf and wrote until 1987 the scripts and templates for more than thirty films.
At the Academy Awards in 1954, he received first alone the Oscar for best original story for a Roman Holiday (1953 ) by William Wyler with Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck and Eddie Albert in the lead roles. In addition, he was nominated for this purpose in this Oscar ceremony along with John Dighton for the Oscar for best adapted screenplay and also won with Dighton the price of the Writers Guild of America (WGA Award) for Best American comedy.
In 1969 he won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best screenplay for an episode of a TV series, namely for the TV movie The story of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1968 ) by Charles Jarrott starring Jack Palance, Denholm Elliott and Billie Whitelaw.
The award of the Academy of Hunter was revoked in December 1992 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as Trumbo, who was during the McCarthy - era blacklisted ( " blacklist " ), the sole author of the original artwork was. Hunter was then called, in consultation with Trumbo as the sole author because of its prohibition and took these financially to the merit. The Academy stroked Hunter as a ghost writer from the presentation list and awarded on 10 May 1993 at Trumbo woman a second posthumous Oscar to Trumbo died in 1976. Prior to Hunter's son, the director Tim Hunter had refused to issue the awarded to his father in 1954 Oscar.
Between 1953 and 1957, Hunter was also clear on the "Black List" and was therefore subject also a temporary prohibition. Hunter also worked under the pseudonym Philip Rush with the standing also under prohibition Ring Lardner Jr. together and wrote this among other things, the template for the Broadway musical Foxy (1964).