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Dudley Nichols
Wapakoneta, Ohio, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dudley Nichols (April 6, 1895 – January 4, 1960) was an American screenwriter and director. Dudley Nichols was born April 6, 1895, in Wapak…
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dudley Nichols (April 6, 1895 – January 4, 1960) was an American screenwriter and director. Dudley Nichols was born April 6, 1895, in Wapakoneta, Ohio. He studied at the University of Michigan where he was active member of the Sigma Chapter of Theta Xi fraternity. After working as a reporter for the New York World, Nichols moved to Hollywood in 1929 and became one of the most highly regarded screenwriters of the 1930s and 1940s. He collaborated on many films over many years with director John Ford, and was also noted for his work with George Cukor, Howard Hawks, Fritz Lang and Jean Renoir. Nichols wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for films including Bringing Up Baby (1938), Stagecoach (1939), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Scarlet Street (1945), And Then There Were None (1945), The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), Pinky (1949) and The Tin Star (1957). Nichols initially declined the Academy Award he received for The Informer, due to a dispute between the Screen Writers Guild, of which he was a founder, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He collected the award at the 1938 Oscar ceremony. He served as president of the Screen Writers Guild in 1937 and 1938. He also co-wrote the documentary The Battle of Midway, which won the 1942 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Nichols produced and directed three films—Government Girl (1943), Sister Kenny (1946) and Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)—for which he also wrote the screenplay. In 1954 he received the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement from the Writers Guild of America. He died in Hollywood of cancer in 1960 and was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
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1966
Stagecoach
Movie Writer
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1965
Ten Little Indians
Movie Screenplay
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1962
Escape from Zahrain
Movie Writer
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1960
Heller in Pink Tights
Movie Screenplay
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1959
The Hangman
Movie Writer
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1957
The Tin Star
Movie Screenplay
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1956
Run for the Sun
Movie Screenplay
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1954
Prince Valiant
Movie Screenplay
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1952
The Big Sky
Movie Screenplay
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1952
Return of the Texan
Movie Screenplay
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1951
Rawhide
Movie Writer
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1949
Pinky
Movie Screenplay
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1947
Mourning Becomes Electra
Movie Director
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1947
The Fugitive
Movie Screenplay
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1946
Sister Kenny
Movie Screenplay
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1945
The Bells of St. Mary's
Movie Screenplay
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1945
Scarlet Street
Movie Screenplay
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1945
And Then There Were None
Movie Screenplay
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1944
It Happened Tomorrow
Movie Adaptation
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1943
Government Girl
Movie Director
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1943
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Movie Screenplay
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1943
Bataan
Movie Writer
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1943
This Land Is Mine
Movie Screenplay
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1943
Air Force
Movie Screenplay
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1942
The Battle of Midway
Movie Writer
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1941
Swamp Water
Movie Writer
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1941
Man Hunt
Movie Screenplay
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1940
The Long Voyage Home
Movie Screenplay
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1939
The Marshal Of Mesa City
Movie Story
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1939
The 400 Million
Movie Writer
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1939
Stagecoach
Movie Screenplay
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1938
Carefree
Movie Story
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1938
Bringing Up Baby
Movie Screenplay
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1937
The Hurricane
Movie Screenplay
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1937
The Toast of New York
Movie Screenplay
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1936
The Plough and the Stars
Movie Screenplay
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1936
Mary of Scotland
Movie Screenplay
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1935
The Three Musketeers
Movie Screenplay
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1935
Steamboat Round the Bend
Movie Screenplay
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1935
The Crusades
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