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Nunnally Johnson
Columbus, Georgia, USA
Nunnally Hunter Johnson (December 5, 1897 – March 25, 1977) was an American filmmaker who wrote, produced, and directed motion pictures. Johnson was born in Columbus, Georgia. He…
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Nunnally Hunter Johnson (December 5, 1897 – March 25, 1977) was an American filmmaker who wrote, produced, and directed motion pictures. Johnson was born in Columbus, Georgia. He began his career as a journalist, writing for the Columbus Enquirer Sun, the Savannah Press, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and the New York Herald Tribune. He also wrote short stories and a collection of these, There Ought To Be a Law, was published in 1930. Johnson's first connection with film work was the sale of screen rights to one of his stories in 1927. Johnson asked his editor if he could write film criticism articles in 1932. When this request was denied, he decided to relocate to Hollywood and work directly in the film industry. Quickly finding work as a scriptwriter, Johnson was hired fulltime as a writer by 20th Century-Fox in 1935. He soon began producing films as well and co-founded International Pictures in 1943 with William Goetz. Johnson also directed several films in the 1950s, including two starring Gregory Peck. Johnson was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Screenplay in 1940 for The Grapes of Wrath and the Directors Guild of America Best Directors Award in 1956 for The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. Johnson died of pneumonia in Hollywood in 1977 and was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.
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1988
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission
Movie Characters
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1985
The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission
Movie Characters
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1967
The Dirty Dozen
Movie Screenplay
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1965
Dear Brigitte
Movie Writers' Assistant
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1964
The World of Henry Orient
Movie Screenplay
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1963
Take Her, She's Mine
Movie Screenplay
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1962
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
Movie Screenplay
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1960
Flaming Star
Movie Screenplay
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1960
The Angel Wore Red
Movie Screenplay
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1959
The Man Who Understood Women
Movie Director
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1957
The Three Faces of Eve
Movie Director
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1957
The True Story of Jesse James
Movie Screenplay
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1957
Oh, Men! Oh, Women!
Movie Director
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1956
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Movie Screenplay
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1955
How to Be Very, Very Popular
Movie Director
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1954
Black Widow
Movie Producer
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1954
Night People
Movie Screenplay
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1953
How to Marry a Millionaire
Movie Producer
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1952
My Cousin Rachel
Movie Screenplay
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1952
We're Not Married!
Movie Screenplay
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1952
Phone Call from a Stranger
Movie Screenplay
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1951
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Movie Screenplay
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1951
The Long Dark Hall
Movie Screenplay
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1950
The Mudlark
Movie Screenplay
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1950
The Gunfighter
Movie Producer
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1950
Three Came Home
Movie Screenplay
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1949
Everybody Does It
Movie Writer
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1948
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
Movie Screenplay
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1946
The Dark Mirror
Movie Producer
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1945
Along Came Jones
Movie Writer
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1945
The Southerner
Movie Writer
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1944
The Keys of the Kingdom
Movie Screenplay
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1944
The Woman in the Window
Movie Screenplay
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1944
Casanova Brown
Movie Writer
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1943
Holy Matrimony
Movie Screenplay
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1943
The Moon Is Down
Movie Writer
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1942
Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
Movie Producer
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1942
The Pied Piper
Movie Screenplay
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1942
Moontide
Movie Additional Writing
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1942
Roxie Hart
Movie Producer
