Sidney Harmon

Sidney Harmon ( born April 30, 1907 in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York, † February 29, 1988 in Rancho Mirage, California ) was an American screenwriter and film producer who has been nominated once for an Academy Award for best original story.

Life

Harmon was nominated for his first submission for the Academy Award for best original story, and indeed at the Academy Awards in 1943 for the staged by George Stevens comedy film Witness for the Prosecution ( The Talk of the Town, 1942) with Cary Grant, Jean Arthur and Ronald Colman in the lead roles.

He wrote in the following years until 1961 the scripts and templates for six movies, and was moreover 1953-1965 as a producer with his film production company Security Pictures involved in the production of nine films such as the 1955, directed by Joseph H. Lewis incurred gangster film secret ring 99 (The Big Combo ) with Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte and Brian Donlevy.

1959 belonged to Harmon with John Houseman and Robert Ryan co-founded the theater group at the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA).

Filmography (selection)

D = Writer; P = Producer