History Hop Tags - Screenwriter

1853-12-13

Joseph Sickman Corsen, Curacao, musician/composer/screenwriter

1888-04-26

Anita Loos, American screenwriter, novelist (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) and playwright (d. 1981)

1888-11-18

Frances Marion, SF CA, screenwriter/actress (Pollyanna)

1890-04-23

Marcel L'Herbier, French director/screenwriter (El Dorado)

1891-04-15

Wallace Reid, St Louis MO, actor/dir/screenwriter (Every Inch a Man)

1893-02-28

Ben Hecht, NYC, novelist/playwright/screenwriter (Front Page)

1893-06-09

Samuel N Behrman, US screenwriter (Tale of 2 Cities, Daddy Long Legs)

1896-01-16

Ruth Rose, American screenwriter (d. 1978)

1897-04-30

Humberto Mauro, Brazillina director and screenwriter (d. 1983)

1897-12-05

Nunnally Johnson, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1977)

1899-08-02

Charles Bennett, screenwriter

1900-02-16

Albert Maurice Hackett, playwright/screenwriter

1900-03-04

Herbert Biberman, American screenwriter (d. 1971)

1900-05-24

Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter (d. 1984)

1902-07-20

Cesare Zavattini, Italian screenwriter (Bicycle Thiefs)

1902-09-20

Cesare Zavattini, Italian screenwriter (Ladri di Biciclette)

1902-12-12

Howard Koch, screenwriter

1903-04-26

Niven Busch, US screenwriter (Postman Always Rings Twice)

1903-05-23

Walter Reisch, US, screenwriter (Ninotchka, Gaslight, Titanic)

1905-05-17

John Patrick, screenwriter

1907-06-17

Maurice Cloche, French film director and screenwriter (d. 1990)

1908-11-23

Leendert P J Braat, Dutch sculptor/screenwriter

1909-05-26

Richard Maibaum, NYC, screenwriter (Goldfinger)

1909-06-20

Joan Harrison, screenwriter

1909-08-22

Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (d. 2000)

1909-10-14

Dorothy Kingsley, American screenwriter (d. 1996)

1910-04-17

Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (d. 1999)

1911-03-21

John Paxton, screenwriter (On The Beach, Kotch, Farewell My Lovely)

1911-11-04

Jack Rose, screenwriter

1913-01-29

Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (d. 2003)

1913-06-21

Irving Shulman, author/screenwriter

1913-11-25

Jack Davies, screenwriter

1914-03-28

Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (d. 2000)

1914-04-21

Norman Panama, American screenwriter (d. 2003)

1914-11-11

Howard Fast, NYC, screenwriter (Rachel & the Stranger, Spartacus)

1915-08-19

Ring Lardner Jr, Chicago, Illinois, American journalist and screenwriter (Woman of the Year, M A S H)

1915-12-08

Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (d. 2005)

1916-03-14

Horton Foote, American author, playwright and screenwriter

1916-12-23

Dino Risi, Italian film director and screenwriter

1918-01-13

Ted Willis, prolific English screenwriter (It's Great to be Young)

1918-01-16

Stirling Silliphant, screenwriter

1918-02-04

Ida Lupino, actress screenwriter director/producer (Jennifer)

1918-09-05

Luis Alcoriza, Mexican screenwriter, film director, and actor (d. 1992)

1918-11-03

Dean Riesner, film and television screenwriter (d. 2002)

1919-09-15

Nelson Gidding, American screenwriter (d. 2004)

1920-06-27

I A L Diamond, screenwriter (1960 Acad Award-Apartment)

1922-03-22

Stewart Stern, screenwriter (Rebel Without A Cause)

1922-06-02

Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 2002)

1924-04-08

Frédéric Back, German-born Canadian short film director and screenwriter

1924-05-09

Jean J A Girault, French director/screenwriter (l'Amour)

1924-07-23

Gavin Lambert, British-born screenwriter (d. 2005)

1926-01-24

Georges Lautner, French director and screenwriter

1926-08-06

Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (d. 1999)

1927-03-06

Gabriel García Márquez, Aracataca, Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist (1982 Nobel Prize in Literature)

1927-05-07

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German screenwriter, (d. 2013)

1927-06-30

James Goldman, Chicago, Illinois, American screenwriter/playwright (The Lion in Winter, They Might Be Giants)

1927-12-19

James Booth, Croydon, Surrey, English actor and screenwriter (Zulu, Keeping Mum)

1928-01-01

Ernest R Tidyman, Ohio, novelist/screenwriter (French Connection)

1928-05-13

Édouard Molinaro, French film actor, director and screenwriter

1928-08-07

Romeo Muller, American screenwriter (d. 1992)

1929-12-19

Howard Sackler, American screenwriter (d. 1982)

1930-12-09

Buck Henry, NYC, screenwriter/comedian (SNL, Get Smart)

1931-05-10

Ettore Scola, Italian director and screenwriter

1931-07-23

Guy Fournier, French Canadian author and screenwriter

1931-09-19

Jean-Claude Carrière, French screenwriter and actor

1932-09-10

Bo Goldman, American screenwriter

1932-11-28

Terence Frisby, poet/screenwriter (There's a Girl in My Soup)

1934-02-19

Carole Eastman, American screenwriter (d. 2004)

1934-07-01

Claude Berri, French actor, director and screenwriter

1934-07-25

Claude Zidi, French film director and screenwriter

1934-11-23

Robert Towne, producer/screenwriter (Chinatown)

1935-11-05

Christopher Wood, English screenwriter and novellist

1937-07-28

Francis Veber, French film director and screenwriter

1938-05-10

Jean Becker, French director, screenwriter and actor

1938-11-03

Jean Rollin, French director and screenwriter

1941-05-19

Nora Ephron, NY, novelist/screenwriter/director (Michael, Heartburn), (d. 2012)

1941-08-01

Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (d. 2004)

1942-06-01

Tom Mankiewicz, Los Angeles California, screenwriter (Diamonds are Forever)

1942-09-29

Steve Tesich, screenwriter/playwright

1944-11-23

Joe Eszterhas, screenwriter (Basic Instinct, Showgirls)

1945-02-20

Andrew Bergman, director/screenwriter (Soapdish, Honeymoon in Vegas)

1946-10-18

James Robert Baker, American novelist, screenwriter

1947-03-04

David Franzoni, American screenwriter

1947-05-12

Micheline Lanctôt, American film actor, director and screenwriter

1948-05-30

Michael Piller, American screenwriter (d. 2005)

1948-08-31

Lowell Ganz, American screenwriter

1949-07-28

Randall Wallace, American screenwriter and film producer

1950-03-04

Ofelia Medina, Mexican actress and screenwriter

1950-06-03

Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter

1950-11-10

Debra Hill, American screenwriter and film producer (d. 2005)

1951-05-25

Bob Gale, American screenwriter

1951-09-25

Pedro Almodovar, Spain, director/screenwriter (Kika, Matador)

1954-02-11

Wesley Strick, American screenwriter

1955-01-12

Rockne S. O'Bannon, American screenwriter

1955-10-18

David Twohy, American movie director and screenwriter

1955-11-19

Sam Hamm, American screenwriter

1956-06-02

Mani Ratnam, Indian film director, screenwriter and producer

1956-09-11

Tony Gilroy, American screenwriter and director

1956-11-08

Richard Curtis, British screenwriter

1957-03-25

Jim Uhls, American screenwriter

1957-05-13

Alan Ball, American screenwriter, director, and producer

1957-09-25

Rupert Haselden, journalist/Screenwriter

1957-12-29

Paul Rudnick, American screenwriter/playwright

1958-04-30

Charles Berling, French actor, director and screenwriter

1958-07-14

Joe Keenan, American screenwriter, television producer and novelist.

1958-08-20

Patricia Rozema, Canadian film director and screenwriter

1958-11-01

Charlie Kaufman, American screenwriter

1959-01-10

Fran Walsh, New Zealand screenwriter

1959-10-18

Milčo Mančevski, Macedonian film director and screenwriter

1960-07-02

Terry Rossio, American screenwriter

1961-01-09

Oliver Goldstick, American screenwriter

1961-05-19

Gregory Poirier, American screenwriter and director

1961-07-15

Jean-Christophe Grangé, French writer and screenwriter

1961-09-24

John Logan, American screenwriter

1961-11-20

Larry Karaszewski, American screenwriter

1963-01-12

François Girard, French-Canadian film director and screenwriter

1963-03-27

Quentin Tarantino, director/screenwriter (Pulp Fiction)

1963-06-16

Scott Alexander, American screenwriter

1964-06-02

Caroline Link, German film director and screenwriter

1965-03-14

Kevin Williamson, American screenwriter

1965-08-23

Roger Avary, Canadian-born screenwriter, director, and producer

1965-11-08

Craig Chester, American actor and screenwriter

1966-06-16

Adrienne Shelly, American actress, director and screenwriter (d. 2006)

1966-06-24

Adrienne Shelly, American actress, director and screenwriter (d. 2006)

1966-11-30

David Nicholls, English novelist and screenwriter

1967-08-02

Aline Brosh McKenna, American screenwriter

1967-08-22

Alfred Gough, American screenwriter

1968-01-06

John Singleton, director/screenwriter (Boyz in the Hood)

1968-02-11

Mo Willems, American author and screenwriter

1968-07-13

Christian Taylor, British screenwriter

1970-01-13

Shonda Rhimes, American screenwriter/creator Grey's Anatomy

1970-08-04

John August, American screenwriter

1971-04-01

Lachy Hulme, Australian actor and screenwriter

1972-10-07

Ben Younger, American screenwriter and film director

1972-10-10

Jun Lana, Filipino playwright and screenwriter

1973-01-22

John Edell, Screenwriter John Michael Hayes on 'Rear Window'

1973-05-02

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, German film director and screenwriter

1976-07-14

Kirsten Sheridan, Irish film director and screenwriter

1976-09-08

Sarah Kucserka, American screenwriter

1976-12-22

Brian A. Alexander, American screenwriter and director

1977-01-17

Leigh Whannell, Australian screenwriter/actor

1977-10-17

Bryan Bertino, American film director and screenwriter

1978-06-14

Diablo Cody, American screenwriter

1978-12-19

Patrick Casey, American screenwriter and actor

1979-07-18

Jared Hess, American film director and screenwriter

1980-02-14

Josh Senter, American screenwriter

1988-04-13

Benjamin Lemenager, The Screenwriter

1928-06-15

"King Kong" actress Fay Wray (20) weds playwright-screenwriter John Monk Saunders (30)

1934-07-29

"Titanic" actress Gloria Stuart (24) weds screenwriter Arthur Sheekman (33)

1942-08-23

"King Kong" actress Fay Wray (34) weds screenwriter and playwright Robert Riskin (45)

1950-08-17

Short story writer Dorothy Parker (57) weds screenwriter Alan Campbell (46)

1967-05-08

"Bye Bye Birdie" actress Ann-Margret (26) weds actor and screenwriter Roger Smith (34)

1973-10-25

American playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon (46) weds actress Marsha Mason (31)

1977-12-21

American Jewish playwright and screenwriter "Glengarry Glen Ross" David Mamet marries 1st wife actress Lindsay Crouse

1991-09-22

American Jewish playwright and screenwriter David Mamet marries 2nd wife, English actress Rebecca Pidgeon

1994-07-30

Hollywood's highest-paid screenwriter Joe Eszterhas (49) weds Naomi Baka (35) in Maui, Hawaii

1995-10-21

"Family Ties" actress Meredith Baxter (48) weds screenwriter Michael Blodgett (56) in Los Angeles

1996-11-13

"A Room With A View" actor Daniel Day-Lewis (39) weds "Personal Velocity: Three Portraits" screenwriter Rebecca Miller (34) in Vermont

1997-09-27

"The Cosby Show" actress Erika Alexander (28) weds screenwriter Tony Puryear (40) on outdoor ceremony in Malibu

1997-12-29

Actress Cate Blanchett (28) weds screenwriter Andrew Upton (31) at Blue Mountains National Park in New South Wales, Australia

1999-07-10

"It Could Happen To You" actress Rosie Perez (34) weds playwright and screenwriter Seth Zvi Rosenfeld (37) in Brooklyn, New York

2000-09-03

"Will & Grace" actress Debra Messing (32) weds actor-screenwriter Daniel Zelman (33) at a private estate in Santa Barbara, California

2000-11-24

Actor, screenwriter and director Jon Favreau (34) weds physician Joya Tillem (30) in Sonoma, California

2003-07-04

Screenwriter and producer Dean Devlin (40) weds "Another World" actress Lisa Brenner (29)

2006-07-29

"Providence" actress Paula Cale (36) weds screenwriter Michael Lisbe at Sopris Mountain Ranch in Basalt, Colorado

2006-09-30

Actress Amanda Peet (34) weds screenwriter David Benioff (36) at Friends Seminary Quaker School in New York City

2010-07-03

"The Office" actress Jenna Fischer (36) weds screenwriter Lee Kirk (38) in Malibu

2011-10-02

Canadian stand-up comedian and actor Seth Rogen (30) weds screenwriter Lauren Miller at Kunde Family Estate in Sonoma, California

2011-10-16

Actress, screenwriter and model Nikki Reed (24) weds singer-songwriter Paul McDonald (27) at a private ranch in Malibu, California

2013-09-01

Screenwriter Seth Meyers (39) weds human rights lawyer Alexi Ashe on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts

2013-12-31

Actress-comedian Lily Tomlin (74) weds screenwriter Jane Wagner (78) in Los Angeles, California

1906-09-02

Guiseppe Giacosa, Ital screenwriter (libretti opera Puccini), dies

1924-12-06

Gene Stratton-Porter, American author, screenwriter and naturalist (b. 1863)

1946-08-26

Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1887)

1948-05-24

Jacques Feyder, Belgian director and screenwriter (b. 1885)

1953-03-05

Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter (b. 1897)

1957-12-19

John W Van Druten, US stage/screenwriter (I Remember Mama), dies at 56

1959-08-06

Preston Sturges, [Edmund Biden], US director/screenwriter, dies at 60

1966-02-18

Robert Rossen, American screenwriter, producer, and director (b. 1908)

1967-06-10

Frank Butler, actor/screenwriter (Road to Bali, China), dies at 76

1970-06-02

Albert Lamorisse, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1922)

1971-06-30

Herbert Biberman, Jewish American screenwriter and film director (b. 1900)

1973-05-12

Frances Marion, screenwriter (Pollyanna, Camille), dies at 85

1973-09-09

Samuel N Behrman, US stage/screenwriter (Quo Vardis), dies at 80

1973-11-03

Marc Allégret, French director and screenwriter (b. 1900)

1974-12-15

Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born screenwriter and film producer (b. 1902)

1977-04-11

Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (b. 1900)

1981-08-01

Paddy Chayefsky, screenwriter (Network, Hospital) dies of cancer at 58

1981-10-30

Georges Brassens, French screenwriter, dies

1981-12-21

Allan Dwan, Canadian-born American director and screenwriter (b. 1885)

1984-04-18

John Lee Mahin, screenwriter, dies of emphysema at 81

1986-07-21

Ernest Maas, American screenwriter (b. 1892)

1987-09-13

Mervyn Leroy, actor/screenwriter/director (Quo Vadis), dies at 86

1989-01-16

Pierre Boileau, screenwriter (Vertigo), dies at 82

1990-01-10

Juliet Berto, screenwriter/actress (Bastienne Bastien), dies at 42

1991-06-27

Milton Subotsky, American screenwriter (b. 1921)

1991-08-12

William Gordon, screenwriter (Back to Bataan), dies

1992-02-10

Meade Roberts, screenwriter, dies of congestive heart failure at 61

1992-03-15

Helen Deutsch, screenwriter, dies of natural causes

1992-05-02

Philip Dunne, screenwriter, dies of cancer at 84

1992-09-07

Henry Ephron, US screenwriter (Daddy Long Legs), dies at 81

1993-01-28

Aben Kandel, screenwriter (Dinner at 8), dies of heart failure at 96

1993-03-02

Paul D Zimmerman, US screenwriter (King of Comedy), dies at 54

1993-03-08

Wells Root, US screenwriter (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 92

1993-03-12

Michael Kanin, screenwriter (Woman of the Year), dies at 83

1993-07-10

Sam Rolfe, American screenwriter (b. 1924)

1993-07-26

Daniel Fuchs, US, screenwriter (Hard Way), dies at 84

1993-08-10

Ken England, US screenwriter (Good Girls Go to Paris), dies at 82

1993-08-27

Bob Verstraete, Dutch actor/screenwriter/director (Alicia), dies at 71

1993-09-19

Richard Landau, US screenwriter (Back to Bataan), dies at 79

1993-10-14

Walter Brown Newman, US screenwriter (Cat Ballou), dies at 77

1994-05-08

Rupert Haselden, journalist/screenwriter, dies at 36

1994-05-31

Sidney Gilliat, British screenwriter/director, dies at 86

1994-06-17

Joeri Nagibin, Russian screenwriter (Babje Karstvo), dies at 74

1994-06-22

Jack Davies, screenwriter, dies at 80

1994-09-23

Robert Bloch, screenwriter (Psycho), dies of cancer at 77

1994-10-09

James Hill, English director/screenwriter (Born Free), dies at 75

1995-03-16

Albert Maurice Hackett, playwright/screenwriter, dies at 95

1995-03-23

Irving Shulman, author/screenwriter, dies at 81

1995-06-15

Charles Bennett, screenwriter, dies at 95

1995-07-26

Eleanore Griffin, screenwriter, dies

1995-08-17

Howard Koch, screenwriter, dies at 92

1995-10-20

Jack Rose, screenwriter, dies at 83

1995-11-07

John Patrick, screenwriter, dies at 90

1996-04-26

Stirling Silliphant, screenwriter, dies at 78

1996-06-11

Lonne Elder, playwright/screenwriter, dies at 69

1996-07-01

Steve Tesich, screenwriter/playwright, dies at 53

1997-10-28

Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter (b. 1915)

1997-11-05

James Robert Baker, American novelist, screenwriter (b. 1946)

1998-10-28

James Goldman, American screenwriter/playwright (The Lion in Winter) dies of a heart attack at 71

1999-08-23

Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (b.1926)

1999-09-23

Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (b. 1910)

2000-09-03

Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (b. 1914)

2000-10-31

Ring Lardner, Jr., American screenwriter (b. 1915)

2000-11-22

Christian Marquand, French actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1927)

2000-12-30

Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (b. 1909)

2001-01-15

Ted Mann, American screenwriter (b. 1916)

2001-02-23

Robert Enrico, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1931)

2002-05-10

Yves Robert, French actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1920)

2002-10-04

André Delvaux, Belgian film director and screenwriter (b. 1926)

2002-10-30

Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1922)

2003-01-13

Norman Panama, American screenwriter and director (b. 1914)

2003-02-22

Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (b. 1913)

2003-03-04

Sébastien Japrisot, French author, screenwriter and film director (b. 1931)

2004-01-10

Spalding Gray, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1941)

2004-05-31

Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (b. 1941)

2004-11-11

Richard Dembo, French director and screenwriter (b. 1948)

2005-03-07

Debra Hill, American screenwriter and film producer (b. 1950)

2005-07-02

Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (b. 1915)

2005-07-17

Gavin Lambert, British-born screenwriter (b. 1924)

2005-11-01

Michael Piller, American screenwriter (b. 1948)

2006-09-09

Gérard Brach, French screenwriter (b. 1927)

2007-01-01

A. I. Bezzerides, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1908)

2007-01-30

Sidney Sheldon, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1917)

2007-05-02

Brad McGann, New Zealand film director and screenwriter (b. 1964)

2007-08-08

Melville Shavelson, American film director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1917)

2007-11-01

S. Ali Raza, Bollywood Screenwriter (b. 1922)

2007-11-04

Peter Viertel, German-American author and screenwriter (b. 1920)

2008-02-12

Oscar Brodney, American screenwriter (b. 1907)

2008-03-25

Rafael Azcona, Spanish screenwriter (b. 1926)

2008-05-26

Sydney Pollack, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1934)

2009-01-16

John Mortimer, British barrister, screenwriter and author. (b. 1923)

2009-03-04

Horton Foote, American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Academy Award-winning screenwriter (b. 1916)

2009-06-28

A. K. Lohithadas, Indian screenwriter, director, and producer (b. 1955)

2009-07-31

Harry Alan Towers, English film producer and screenwriter (b. 1920)

2009-08-04

Blake Snyder, American screenwriter (b. 1957)

2009-08-05

Budd Schulberg, American screenwriter and novelist (b. 1914)

2009-09-27

Ivan Dykhovichnyy, Russian film director and screenwriter (b. 1947)

2009-11-28

Gilles Carle, Canadian screenwriter and film director (b. 1928)

2009-12-17

Dan O'Bannon, Screenwriter, after a short illness (b.1943)

2010-01-21

Paul Quarrington, Canadian novelist, playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, musician and educator (b. 1953)

2010-09-12

Claude Chabrol, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1930)

2012-01-05

Frederica Maas, American playwright and screenwriter, dies at 111

2012-01-06

Robert Dozier, Hollywood screenwriter, dies at 81

2012-06-26

Nora Ephron, American author/screenwriter, dies from pneumonia at 71

2013-04-03

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-born British and American novelist and screenwriter, dies from pulmonary failure at 85

2013-04-12

Michael France, American screenwriter, dies from complications from diabetes at 51

2014-04-17

Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist (1982 Nobel Prize in Literature), dies of pneumonia at 87

2015-11-03

Colin Welland dead: Chariots of Fire screenwriter dies aged 81

2015-11-05

Melissa Mathison Dies: 'E.T.' Screenwriter Was 65

2016-03-01

Tony Warren, creator of British soap opera Coronation Street, actor and tv screenwriter, dies at 79