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Ranald MacDougall
Schenectady, New York, USA
Ranald MacDougall (March 10, 1915 – December 12, 1973) was an American screenwriter who scripted such films as Mildred Pierce (1945), The Unsuspected (1947), June Bride (1948), an…
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Ranald MacDougall (March 10, 1915 – December 12, 1973) was an American screenwriter who scripted such films as Mildred Pierce (1945), The Unsuspected (1947), June Bride (1948), and The Naked Jungle (1954), and shared screenwriting credit for 1963's Cleopatra. He also directed a number of films, including 1957's Man on Fire with Bing Crosby and 1959's The World, the Flesh and the Devil, both of which featured actress Inger Stevens. Born in Schenectady, New York, MacDougall came from an impoverished working-class family. His father was a crane operator and union organizer, whose frequent strikes forced MacDougall to leave school before finishing the eighth grade to help support the family. He held a variety of odd jobs and during the Great Depression found work as an usher at Radio City Music Hall. He saw greater potential across the street in Rockefeller Center, where he was hired as a page, working alongside Gregory Peck. As a page MacDougall had the opportunity to closely observe the radio industry, and in his spare time he wrote and submitted scripts to his boss under pseudonyms, and was finally hired as a staff writer for NBC Radio despite being underage at the time.
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1989
We're No Angels
Movie Original Film Writer
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1973
That Man Bolt
Movie Screenplay
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1972
Magic Carpet
Movie Writer
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1970
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
Movie Writer
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1968
Jigsaw
Movie Producer
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1968
Dark of the Sun
Movie Screenplay
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1966
Fame Is the Name of the Game
Movie Teleplay
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1963
Cleopatra
Movie Screenplay
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1961
Go Naked in the World
Movie Director
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1960
The Subterraneans
Movie Director
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1959
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Movie Director
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1957
Man on Fire
Movie Director
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1956
The Mountain
Movie Screenplay
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1955
Queen Bee
Movie Director
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1955
We're No Angels
Movie Screenplay
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1954
Secret of the Incas
Movie Screenplay
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1954
The Naked Jungle
Movie Screenplay
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1951
The House in the Square
Movie Writer
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1951
Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell
Movie Screenplay
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1950
The Breaking Point
Movie Writer
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1950
Bright Leaf
Movie Screenplay
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1950
Stage Fright
Movie Additional Writing
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1949
The Hasty Heart
Movie Screenplay
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1948
The Decision of Christopher Blake
Movie Screenplay
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1948
June Bride
Movie Screenplay
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1947
The Unsuspected
Movie Screenplay
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1947
Possessed
Movie Screenplay
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1945
Mildred Pierce
Movie Screenplay
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1945
Objective, Burma!
Movie Screenplay
