Robert N. Lee

Robert Nelson Lee ( born May 12, 1890 in Butte, Montana, † September 18, 1964 in Hollywood, California ) was an American screenwriter.

Biography

Lee, brother of screenwriter and film director Rowland V. Lee and screenwriter Donald W. Lee, began his career as a screenwriter in 1922 Shirley of the Circus and wrote until 1945 the templates for some 30 films.

At the Academy Awards in 1931 he was nominated along with Francis Edward Faragoh for an Oscar for best adapted screenplay and indeed for Little Caesar ( 1931).

Other films made for its files, were Underworld (1927 ), The Kennel Murder Case (1933 ), Fog Over Frisco (1934 ), The hangman of London (1939) and Under the Black Flag ( 1945). He worked throughout his career with directors such as Josef von Sternberg, his brother Rowland V. Lee, Michael Curtiz, William Dieterle and Mervyn LeRoy together.