Robert Buckner
Robert Buckner ( born May 28, 1906 in Crewe, Virginia; † August 1989 in Guadalajara, Mexico) was an American playwright, screenwriter and film producer who has been nominated once for an Academy Award for best original story as well as a Golden Globe Award and awarded by the Writers Guild of America Robert Meltzer Award won for Best Screenplay.
Life
Buckner studied post-school at the University of Virginia and the University of Edinburgh and subsequently worked as a journalist and correspondent for the newspaper New York World. Later he wrote stage works for Broadway, but also for off-Broadway productions.
His career in the film industry in Hollywood began Buckner 1937 as he completed a contract as scriptwriter with Warner Bros. and worked for this film production company until 1948. His debut as a screenwriter, he was the template for the Western Golden earth California (Gold Is Where You Find It, 1938) by Michael Curtiz with George Brent, Olivia de Havilland and Claude Rains. Numerous other well-known film productions were made in the following years as directed by Michael Curtiz film musical Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942 ) with James Cagney as a Broadway star George M. Cohan and Joan Leslie and Walter Huston in other major roles. For this he was nominated for the Academy Awards in 1943 for the Academy Award for best original story. 1942 Buckner began alongside his work as a screenwriter to work as a film producer and produced, among other films, such as The Naughty Gentleman ( Gentleman Jim, 1942) by Raoul Walsh with Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith and Jack Carson or even Life with Father ( Life with Father, 1947) by Michael Curtiz with William Powell, Irene Dunne and Elizabeth Taylor.
After he worked 1948-1951 for Universal Studios, he then worked as a freelance screenwriter and producer. He had a his greatest success with the screenplay for the feature film produced by him victory over the darkness (Bright Victory, 1951) by Mark Robson with Arthur Kennedy, Peggy Dow and Julie Adams. For this, he won both the 1952 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Screenplay as awarded by the Writers Guild of America Robert Meltzer Award for the screenplay with the best handling American problems.
Buckner, who worked after 1955 mainly for television productions, wrote to 1970 scripts and templates for forty films and television series, and produced until 1962, nearly twenty films.
Filmography (selection)
D = screenplay, P = producer: