Richard L. Breen

Richard L. Breen ( born June 26, 1918 in Chicago, Illinois, † February 1, 1967 in Los Angeles County, California ) was an American film director and screenwriter, who at the Oscar ceremony 1954 Oscar for best original screenplay for the film sinking of the Titanic (1953 ) received.

Biography

Breen began in the late 1940s, his career as a screenwriter in the Hollywood film industry and provided the screenplay for the romantic comedy A Foreign Affair (1948 ) by Billy Wilder made ​​his debut. For this he was not only both Best Adapted Screenplay at the Academy Awards 1949 nominated with Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder for an Oscar in the category, but also for the price of the Writers Guild of America (WGA Award) for Best American comedy. In addition, he was nominated, along with Charles Brackett for the WGA Award for the comedy Miss Tatlock 's Millions (1948 ) by Richard Haydn.

For the film sinking of the Titanic (1953 ) by Jean Negulesco he got together with Charles Brackett and Walter Reisch 1954 Oscar for best original screenplay.

In 1963 he was nominated for the WGA Award for Best Musical American Texas - Show ( 1962) by José Ferrer. Another nomination for WGA Award received Breen along with Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron for Captain Newman ( 1963) by David Miller and was also nominated again for this with the co- authors for an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay at the Academy Awards in 1964.

Other well-known films as a screenwriter include the thriller Niagara (1953 ) by Henry Hathaway and the thriller The sniffer ( 1967) by Gordon Douglas. As a film director Breen turned only a movie and indeed the spy thriller secret ring Nippon (1957).

Breen was not just from 1952 to 1953 president of the Screen Writers Guild, but 1954-1955 and first president of the Writers Guild of America, West ( WGAW ). For his life's work to him posthumously awarded the Edward J. North Prize of the Writers Guild of America in 1967 awarded.