Neil Paterson (writer)

James Edmund Neil Paterson ( born December 31, 1916 in Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland, † April 19, 1995 in Crieff, Perth and Kinross, Scotland) was a Scottish football player and author and screenwriter.

Life

After graduating from the University of Edinburgh was Neil Paterson professional footballer who is a member of the Scottish Football League was founded in the 1930s and early 1940s, and then played for Dundee United. In the season 1936-1937 Paterson was appointed team captain.

After retiring from the athletes life, Paterson initially started in Dundee as a sports reporter for a newspaper to work and developed after the end of World War II to the writer. But only in 1953 succeeded Paterson breakthrough, was adapted as one of his novels, Man on a Tightrope, by Elia Kazan in a movie.

At Neil Paterson only ten screenplays, predominantly wrote in the 1950s that even the 1959 film drama produced counted at the Top, for which Paterson in 1960 with the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Award.

In the course of his career Paterson took over largely administrative leadership positions, so including that of Governor of the British Film Institute and as Studio Boss of the Scottish television Grampian Television.

Neil Paterson, about the is also known that he had three sons who died in 1995 at the age of 78 years.