Scriptwriters

101. Richard Brooks

Richard Brooks was an Academy Award-winning film writer who also earned six Oscar nominations and achieved success as a film director and producer.

He was born Reuben Sax on May 18, 1912, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His parents were Russian-Jewish immigrants. He graduated from West Philadelphia ...

102. George Seaton

Writer | Miracle on 34th Street

Working his way up from general factotum and gag writer to highly versatile writer/director, George Seaton was involved in many aspects of the entertainment industry along the way.

He was born George Stenius of Swedish parentage (his family hailed from Stockholm) in South Bend, IN, and grew up in ...

103. Clare Boothe Luce

Writer | Come to the Stable

Clare Boothe Luce was born on March 10, 1903 in New York City, New York, USA. She was a writer and actress, known for Come to the Stable (1949), The Women (1939) and The Opposite Sex (1956). She was married to Henry Luce and George Tuttle Brokaw. She died on October 9, 1987 in Washington, District ...

104. Pearl S. Buck

Writer | The Big Wave

Daughter of Christian missionaries, Pearl Buck was reared and educated in China. She received her university education in America but returned to China in the mid-1910s. She became a university instructor and writer, eventually authoring novels about China, some of which were turned into Hollywood ...

105. Colette

Writer | Gigi

Colette was born on January 28, 1873 in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, Yonne, France. She was a writer, known for Gigi (1958), Chéri (2009) and Matinee Theatre (1955). She was married to Maurice Goudeket, Henri de Jouvenel des Ursins and Willy. She died on August 3, 1954 in Paris, France.

Maedchen in Uniform

106. Ernest Vajda

Writer | The Smiling Lieutenant

The Hungarian playwright and novelist Ernest Vajda was educated at a monastic college in Paps, where he graduated with a degree in electrochemistry in 1904. He added a Ph.D. to his name in 1908 and produced his first play the following year. Vajda held several editorial jobs in Hungary before ...

Queen Christina

107. Alberto Moravia

Writer | Le mépris

Alberto Moravia was born on November 22, 1907 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and actor, known for Contempt (1963), The Conformist (1970) and From a Roman Balcony (1960). He was married to Carmen Llera and Elsa Morante. He died on September 26, 1990 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

108. Sergio Amidei

Writer | Roma città aperta

Sergio Amidei was born on October 3, 1904 in Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. He was a writer and producer, known for Rome, Open City (1945), Un borghese piccolo piccolo (1977) and General Della Rovere (1959). He died on April 14, 1981 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

109. Jean Giraudoux

Writer | La duchesse de Langeais

Jean Giraudoux was born on October 29, 1882 in Bellac, Haute-Vienne, France. He was a writer, known for Wicked Duchess (1942), Angels of Sin (1943) and Ondina (1977). He was married to Suzanne Boland. He died on January 31, 1944 in Paris, France.

La Folle De Chaillot

110. Fernando Arrabal

Writer | L'arbre de Guernica

Fernando Arrabal was born on August 11, 1932 in Melilla, Spanish Protectorate of Morocco, Spain. He is a writer and actor, known for L'arbre de Guernica (1975), Long Live Death (1971) and Odyssey of the Pacific (1982). He has been married to Luce Moreau since February 1, 1958.

111. Boris Pasternak

Writer | Doctor Zhivago

Boris Pasternak was born in Moscow on February 10, 1890 into an artistic family of Russian-Jewish heritage. His father was an acclaimed artist named Leonid Pasternak, who converted to Christianity, and his mother was a renown concert pianist named Rosa Kaufman. Their home was open to family friends...

112. Ray Bradbury

Writer | The Ray Bradbury Theater

Ray Bradbury was an American science fiction writer whose works were translated in more than 40 languages and sold millions of copies around the world. Although he created a world of new technical and intellectual ideas, he never obtained a driver's license and had never driven an automobile.

He was...

Moby Dick

113. Blake Crouch

Writer | Wayward Pines

Blake Crouch is known for Wayward Pines (2015) and Good Behavior (2016).

114. Michael Crichton

Writer | Jurassic Park

Michael Crichton was born in Chicago, Illinois, but grew up in Roslyn, New York. His father was a journalist and encouraged him to write and to type. Michael gave up studying English at Harvard University, having become disillusioned with the teaching standards--the final straw came when he ...

115. Laurence Stallings

Writer | She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

Laurence Stallings was born on November 25, 1894 in Macon, Georgia, USA. He was a writer, known for She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), Jungle Book (1942) and Song of the West (1930). He was married to Louise St. Leger Vance and Helen Purefoy Poteat. He died on February 28, 1968 in Pacific Palisades, ...

116. Lamar Trotti

Writer | Yellow Sky

Author and screenwriter, often preoccupied with American history as viewed from a Southern perspective. Born in Atlanta, Trotti studied writing at Columbia University and was also the first person to graduate from the University of Georgia's Henry Grady School of Journalism. In 1923, he became the ...

117. Leopoldo Torre Nilsson

Director | Los siete locos

After ten years as assistant director to his father 'Leopoldo Torre Rios' he co-directed two films with him. His first personal work was "Graciela (1956)", an adoption from the novel 'Nada' of 'Carmen Laforet' which was made out of reach of the censorship of 'General Perón'. Later on Torre Nilsson ...

118. Lars von Trier

Writer | Dancer in the Dark

Probably the most ambitious and visually distinctive filmmaker to emerge from Denmark since Carl Theodor Dreyer over 60 years earlier, Lars von Trier studied film at the Danish Film School and attracted international attention with his very first feature, The Element of Crime (1984). A highly ...

119. Christophe Honoré

Writer | Plaire, aimer et courir vite

Christophe Honoré was born on April 10, 1970 in Carhaix-Plouguer, Finistère, France. He is a writer and director, known for Sorry Angel (2018), Love Songs (2007) and The Beautiful Person (2008).

120. Ford Beebe

Director | The Invisible Man's Revenge

Ford Beebe was born on November 26, 1888 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. He was a writer and director, known for The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944), Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940) and The Golden Idol (1954). He was married to Kitty Winifred Delevanti and Frances Caroline Willey. He died ...

121. James Oliver Curwood

Writer | Code of the Mounted

James Oliver Curwood was born on June 12, 1878 in Owosso, Michigan, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Code of the Mounted (1935), Back to God's Country (1919) and Valley of Terror (1937). He was married to Ethel Greenwood and Cora Leon Johnson. He died on August 13, 1927 in Owosso, ...

122. David Belasco

Soundtrack | The Man Without a Face

David Belasco was born on July 25, 1853 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for The Man Without a Face (1993), The Return of Peter Grimm (1935) and Sweet Kitty Bellairs (1930). He was married to Cecilia Loverich. He died on May 14, 1931 in New York City, New York,...

123. George Bernard Shaw

Writer | My Fair Lady

The Anglo-Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925, acquired a reputation as the greatest dramatist in the English language during the first half of the 20th Century for the plays he had written at the height of his creativity from "Mrs. ...

124. Clyde Bruckman

Writer | The General

Had been out of work and was pretty much broke when he killed himself. He borrowed Buster Keaton's gun and after eating a meal that he could not pay for, shot himself. There are two stories; One says it was in the restroom of the cafe on Santa Monica Blvd, and the other story states he did it in ...

125. Edgar Wallace

Writer | King Kong

Edgar Wallace was born on April 1, 1875 in Greenwich, London, England, UK. He was a writer and director, known for King Kong (2005), King Kong (1933) and King Kong (1976). He was married to Ethel Violet King and Ivy Maude Caldecott. He died on February 10, 1932 in Hollywood, California, USA.

126. Lillian Hellman

Writer | The Little Foxes

During the 1930s, it was fashionable to be a part of the radical political movement in Hollywood. Lillian Hellman devoted herself to the cause along with other writers and actors in their zeal to reform. Her independence set her apart from all but a few women of the day, and gave her writing an ...

127. Françoise Sagan

Writer | Les fougères bleues

After graduating from high school, Sagan studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. While she was still studying, she wrote her first novel at the age of 17: "Bonjour Tristesse" was published in 1954 and caused a scandal with its explicit depictions of sex, which soon made her known worldwide as a writer. ...

128. Paul Thomas Anderson

Director | Punch-Drunk Love

Anderson was born in 1970. He was one of the first of the "video store" generation of film-makers. His father was the first man on his block to own a V.C.R., and from a very early age Anderson had an infinite number of titles available to him. While film-makers like Spielberg cut their teeth making...

129. Tom Wolfe

Writer | The Right Stuff

Tom Wolfe was born on March 2, 1930 in Richmond, Virginia, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for The Right Stuff (1983), The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. He was married to Sheila Berger. He died on May 14, 2018 in New York, USA.

130. Bertram Millhauser

Writer | The Invisible Man's Revenge

Millhauser authored "Hot Leather," the story of boxer Jimmy Dolan. He started his career as a stenographer in the advertising department of Pathe and, moved up to the script department where he worked on the Pearl White serials. Millhauser became a writer and producer for Cecil B. DeMille. During ...

131. Thomas Anstey Guthrie

Writer | One Touch of Venus

Thomas Anstey Guthrie was born on August 8, 1856 in Kensington, London, England, UK. Thomas Anstey was a writer, known for One Touch of Venus (1948), The Fourteenth Man (1920) and Guest of Honour (1934). Thomas Anstey died on March 11, 1934.

132. Anita Loos

Writer | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

While she is now best known for her book "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," Anita Loos was one of Hollywood's foremost early screenwriters. She began writing screen scenarios for the 'Biograph Company' at an early age (though not 12, as she later claimed), and the first to be produced, The New York Hat (...

133. André-Paul Antoine

Writer | Mon coeur incognito

André-Paul Antoine was born on August 17, 1892 in Paris, France. He was a writer and director, known for Mon coeur incognito (1931), La folle aventure (1931) and Sins of Paris (1952). He was married to Josette Missey, Eugénie Lagnel and Jacqueline Goupil. He died on October 10, 1982 in Buchelay, ...

134. Guillermo Arriaga

Writer | The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Guillermo Arriaga was born on March 13, 1958 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is a writer and producer, known for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005), 21 Grams (2003) and Amores Perros (2000).

135. José Saramago

Writer | Enemy

José Saramago was born on November 16, 1922 in Azinhaga, Golega, Portugal. He was a writer, known for Enemy (2013), Blindness (2008) and O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo. He was married to Pilar del Río and Ilda Reis. He died on June 18, 2010 in Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain.

136. Frank Miller

Writer | Sin City

Frank Miller was born in Olney, Maryland, to a nurse mother and a carpenter and electrician father, and was raised in Montpelier, Vermont. He is of Irish descent. Miller was a big comics writer/artist in the '70s and '80s. He wrote and penciled the Marvel series "Daredevil" for a long time. His ...

137. Upton Sinclair

Writer | There Will Be Blood

Upton Sinclair was born on September 20, 1878 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for There Will Be Blood (2007), The Money Changers (1920) and Maiden No More. He was married to Mary Elizabeth Hard Willis, Mary Craig Sinclair and Meta Fuller. He died on November 25, ...

138. Thomas Hardy

Writer | Far from the Madding Crowd

Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840 in Upper Bockhampton, Dorset, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Far from the Madding Crowd (2015), Tess (1979) and Maiden No More. He was married to Florence Emily Dugdale and Emma Lavinia Gifford. He died on January 11, 1928 in Dorchester, Dorset, ...

139. Ugo Chiti

Writer | Gomorra

Ugo Chiti was born on February 13, 1943 in Tavarnelle Val di Pesa, Tuscany, Italy. He is a writer and art director, known for Gomorrah (2008), Dogman (2018) and Tale of Tales (2015).

140. Kazuo Ishiguro

Writer | Living

Kazuo Ishiguro was born on November 8, 1954 in Nagasaki, Japan. He is a writer and producer, known for Living (2022), Never Let Me Go (2010) and The Remains of the Day (1993). He has been married to Lorna Anne MacDougall since 1986. They have one child.

141. Ken Kesey

Writer | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Kesey burst into the literary scene with the "Cuckoo's Nest" in 1962 which he wrote from his experiences working at a veterans hospital. During this period, he volunteered for the testing on the drug LSD. After writing his second novel, "Sometimes A Great Notion," he bought an old school bus dubbed...

142. George Abbott

Writer | The Pajama Game

Legendary Broadway writer/producer/director George Abbott was born in 1887 in Forestville, New York. His father was mayor of Salamanca, New York, for two terms. In 1898 his family moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Abbott attended Kearney Military Academy. The family returned to New York, where Abbott...

143. Robert Riskin

Writer | It Happened One Night

Robert Riskin was born on March 30, 1897 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for It Happened One Night (1934), You Can't Take It with You (1938) and Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936). He was married to Fay Wray. He died on September 20, 1955 in Beverly Hills, Los ...

144. Gabriel García Márquez

Writer | El año de la peste

Major Latin-American author of novels and short stories, a central figure in the so-called magical realism movement in Latin American literature. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1982. Studied law and journalism in Bogotá and Cartagena. He began his career as a journalist in 1948, ...

145. Jorge Amado

Writer | Gabriela

Jorge Amado was born on August 10, 1912 in Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil. He was a writer, known for Gabriela (1975), Terras do Sem-Fim (1981) and Tieta (1989). He was married to Zélia Gattai and Matilde Garcia Rosa. He died on August 6, 2001 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

146. Randall Wallace

Writer | We Were Soldiers

Randall Wallace was born on July 28, 1949 in Jackson, Tennessee, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for We Were Soldiers (2002), Pearl Harbor (2001) and Braveheart (1995).

147. Clifford Odets

Writer | Sweet Smell of Success

Clifford Odets dropped out of high school to pursue acting. In the 1930s he became a charter member of the Group Theatre, the famous "Method" acting troupe founded by Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg and Cheryl Crawford. Beginning with "Waiting for Lefty" (1935), Odets quickly became the most famous ...

148. Betty Burbridge

Actress | In the Clutches of the Gangsters

Betty Burbridge was born on December 7, 1895 in San Diego, California, USA. She was a writer and actress, known for In the Clutches of the Gangsters (1914), Anybody's Blonde (1931) and Paradise Express (1937). She died on September 19, 1987 in Tarzana, California, USA.

She should deserved the same fame of the Zane Grey

149. Fred Karno

Writer | Mother, Don't Rush Me

Fred Karno was born on March 26, 1866 in Exeter, England, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for Mother, Don't Rush Me (1936), The Bad Companions (1932) and My Old Duchess (1934). He was married to Marie T. L. Moore and Edith Cuthbert. He died on September 18, 1941 in Dorset, England, UK.

150. Samuel Hopkins Adams

Writer | It Happened One Night

Journalist, author, biographer and historian Samuel Hopkins Adams was born along the banks of Lake Erie at Dunkirk, NY, on 26 January 1871. His parents were Myron, a ministe3r, and Hester Rose Hopkins Adams, the daughter of a theologian. Adams attended Hamilton College in Clinton, NY, and upon ...

151. Gaston Leroux

Writer | The Phantom of the Opera

A native of Paris, France, a poet, journalist and novelist, Gaston Leroux is known for his many creative horror stories, including "Rouilable", "The Haunted Chair" and "The Wax Mask", but is probably best known for his work "The Phantom of the Opera", which became Leroux's prize possession. He ...

152. Dorothy Davenport

Actress | Human Wreckage

The Davenport family was well known in theatrical circles. Her aunt, Fanny Davenport was considered one of the greatest stage actresses of her time and her father, Harry Davenport, was a Broadway star before later venturing into movies. Her mother, Alice Davenport, was a respected Broadway and film...

153. Howard Estabrook

Writer | Cimarron

Detroit-born Howard Estabrook entered show business as a stage actor in New York in 1904. He appeared in several films starting in 1914 and even directed a few in 1917. He left films for a career in the business world, but returned in 1921 in executive positions with various studios, then began ...

154. Joseph Kessel

Writer | Belle de jour

Joseph Kessel was born on January 31, 1898 in Villa Clara, Entre Ríos, Argentina. He was a writer, known for Belle de Jour (1967), The Horsemen (1971) and The Night of the Generals (1967). He was married to Michèle O'Brien, Catherine Gangardt and Nadia-Alexandra Polizu-Michsunesti. He died on July ...

155. Nora Ephron

Writer | Julie & Julia

Nora Ephron was educated at Wellesley College, Massachusetts. She was an acclaimed essayist (Crazy Salad 1975), novelist (Heartburn 1983), and had written screenplays for several popular films, all featuring strong female characters, such as anti-nuclear activist Karen Silkwood (Silkwood (1983), ...

156. Rajkumar Hirani

Writer | PK

Rajkumar Hirani is an Indian film director and editor. Hirani has directed five Hindi films, including Munna Bhai M.B.B.S., Lage Raho Munnabhai, 3 Idiots, PK and Sanju, and all of which have been commercial and critical successes. Most of which have won several awards, including the national awards...

157. Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Writer | Cyrano de Bergerac

Jean-Paul Rappeneau was born on April 8, 1932 in Auxerre, Yonne, France. He is a writer and director, known for Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), A Matter of Resistance (1966) and Bon Voyage (2003).

158. Buck Henry

Writer | The Graduate

Prolific, multi-talented comedy writer, story editor, actor and director. His father was an Air Force general (Paul Steinberg Zuckerman) turned stockbroker and his mother was silent screen star Ruth Taylor, formerly a member of Mack Sennett's bathing beauties. Buck Henry's first fling with comedy ...

159. H. Rider Haggard

Writer | The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

H. Rider Haggard was born on June 22, 1856 in Bradenham, Norfolk, England, UK. H. Rider was a writer, known for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, King Solomon's Mines (1985) and Allan Quatermain. H. Rider was married to Mariana Louisa Margitson. H. Rider died on May 14, 1925 in London, England...

160. Paul Dehn

Writer | Murder on the Orient Express

Paul Dehn's show-business career began in 1936 as a movie reviewer for several London newspapers. He later wrote plays, operettas and musicals for the stage. Dehn's first screenplay, for Seven Days to Noon (1950), garnered him an Oscar. He later wrote everything from James Bond films to entries in ...

161. Achmed Abdullah

Writer | The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

Alexander Nicholayevitch Romanoff (Achmed Abdullah) was the author of numerous adventure and mystery stories, usually set in strange and exotic locations.

His father, Grand Duke Nicholas Romanoff, was a cousin of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his mother, Princess Nourmahal Durani, was the daughter ...

162. Luigi Pirandello

Writer | Feu Mathias Pascal

Luigi Pirandello was born on June 28, 1867 in Girgenti, Sicily, Italy [now Agrigento, Sicily, Italy]. He was a writer, known for The Late Mathias Pascal (1925), Ma non è una cosa seria (1936) and Der Mann, der nicht nein sagen kann (1938). He was married to Antonietta Portulano. He died on ...

163. Rafael Sabatini

Writer | Captain Blood

Rafael Sabatini was born near the Adriatic seaport of Ancona, Italy to Anna Trafford, an Englishwoman, and Italian Vincenzo Sabatini, both of whom were well known opera singers. With their careers still in full swing and included much traveling, so baby Rafael was sent to her parents near Liverpool...

164. César Fernández Ardavín

Writer | El Lazarillo de Tormes

César Fernández Ardavín was born on September 22, 1921 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. He was a writer and director, known for Lazarillo (1959), Cerca de las estrellas (1962) and La llamada de África (1952). He died on September 7, 2012 in Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain.

165. Luis Alcoriza

Writer | Presagio

Luis Alcoriza was born on September 5, 1918 in Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain. He was a writer and director, known for Presagio (1974), Mecánica nacional (1971) and Tlayucan (1962). He was married to Janet Alcoriza. He died on December 3, 1992 in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.

166. Mitch Glazer

Writer | The Recruit

Mitch Glazer was born in 1953. He is a writer and producer, known for The Recruit (2003), Great Expectations (1998) and Scrooged (1988). He has been married to Kelly Lynch since December 6, 1992. He was previously married to Wendie Malick.

167. Luigi Zampa

Writer | Processo alla città

Abandoning earlier studies in architecture and engineering, Luigi Zampa learned screenwriting and directing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, between 1932 and 1937. He went on to make military training films for the Italian army during World War II, as well as collaborating on ...

168. Charles Kenyon

Writer | The Man in Half Moon Street

Charles Kenyon was born on November 2, 1880 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was a writer, known for The Man in Half Moon Street (1944), Strange Journey (1946) and The Still Alarm (1926). He was married to Jane Winton. He died on June 27, 1961 in Hollywood, California, USA.

169. Robert E. Sherwood

Writer | The Best Years of Our Lives

Robert E. Sherwood, a brilliant multifaceted writer, was born to Arthur Murray and Rosina Emmet Sherwood, educated at the Milton Academy (Massachusetts) and Harvard, and was wounded while serving with the Canadian Black Watch in WWI. His literary career started with jobs as movie critic at Vanity ...

170. Michel Audiard

Writer | Under Suspicion

After the Liberation Michel Audiard started a career as a movie magazine writer. Under the pen name of Jacques Potier he worked for short-lived titles such as "L'Etoile du Soir" and "Cinévie". One day, André Hunebelle, the popular French filmmaker, asked him if he thought he could write an ...

171. Carlo Lizzani

Director | Banditi a Milano

Carlo Lizzani was born on April 3, 1922 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for The Violent Four (1968), Chronicle of Poor Lovers (1954) and Celluloide (1996). He was married to Edith Bieber. He died on October 5, 2013 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

172. Anders Thomas Jensen

Writer | Retfærdighedens ryttere

Anders Thomas Jensen was born on 6th April 1972 in Frederiksværk on Sjælland in Denmark to Carl Benny Jensen and Kirsten Jensen (born Sørensen). He attended the high school in Frederiksværk from 1988 to 1991. In 1990 while still in high school, he wrote and directed 10 år på bagen - 3 år i skyggen ...

173. Erich von Däniken

Writer | Egypt

Däniken attended a Jesuit boarding school, where his interest in religion also led him to deal with philosophical problems. The high school student was passionate about archaeology and futurology, space travel and molecular biology. After attending school, Däniken trained as a cook and waiter. As ...

174. Doris Anderson

Writer | King of Gamblers

Doris Anderson was born on November 14, 1897 in Chico, California, USA. Doris was a writer, known for King of Gamblers (1937), True to the Navy (1930) and Love Birds (1934). Doris was married to Anthony Jowitt. Doris died in June 1971 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.

175. Georges Simenon

Writer | Maigret tend un piège

Georges Simenon was a Belgian novelist, writing in the French language. He published nearly 500 different novels, and a large number of short stories. He became internationally famous for creating the French police detective Jules Maigret, as the protagonist in a celebrated series of mystery novels...

176. Terry George

Writer | Hotel Rwanda

Terry George was born on December 20, 1952 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. He is a writer and producer, known for Hotel Rwanda (2004), In the Name of the Father (1993) and Some Mother's Son (1996). He has been married to Margaret Higgins since 1978. They have two children.

177. Gary Ross

Writer | The Hunger Games

Gary Ross is an American writer, director and actor born November 3rd, 1956 in Los Angeles, California. His father was screenwriter Arthur A. Ross (1920 - 2008). After writing for television series The Hitchhiker (1983) in 1986, Ross broke through by penning the Tom Hanks hit Big (1988), his first ...

178. Charles Bukowski

Writer | Barfly

Charles Bukowski, the American poet, short-story writer, and novelist, was born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, Jr. in Andernach, Germany on August 1920. He was the son of Henry Bukowski, a US soldier who was part of the post-World War I occupation force, and Katharina Fett, a German woman. His father, his...

179. Panait Istrati

Writer | Kira Kiralina

Panait Istrate was born in the Danube port Braila in Romania, on 11 August 1884 to Joita Istrate, an unmarried house cleaner. It seams that a Greek smuggler named Valsamis, partner to Joita's father, was his father. At age of 12 leaves home, drifts and works in Braila port, living with his ...

180. Charles Maigne

Writer | In the Hollow of Her Hand

Charles Maigne was born on November 11, 1879 in Richmond, Virginia, USA. He was a writer and director, known for In the Hollow of Her Hand (1918), Her Great Chance (1918) and The Redhead (1919). He was married to Anne Cornwall. He died on November 28, 1929 in San Francisco, California, USA.

181. Géza von Cziffra

Writer | Geld aus der Luft

Géza von Cziffra was a prolific novelist, screenwriter and director, born in Arad, Hungary, of ethnic German ancestry. He began his career as a journalist in Vienna in 1918 and later worked in Berlin as a political commentator and film writer for the publications Berliner Tageblatt and Welt am ...

182. Michael Mansfeld

Writer | Das unsichtbare Visier

Michael Mansfeld was born on February 4, 1922 in Leszno, Wielkopolskie, Poland. He was a writer and actor, known for Das unsichtbare Visier (1973), Dr. med. Mark Wedmann - Detektiv inbegriffen (1974) and Glücksritter (1957). He was married to Gerda Corbett. He died on May 26, 1979 in Rosenheim...

183. Norman Foster

Director | Letter to Loretta

Norman Foster was born on December 13, 1903 in Richmond, Indiana, USA. He was a director and actor, known for The Loretta Young Show (1953), I Cover Chinatown (1936) and Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1938). He was married to Sally Blane and Claudette Colbert. He died on July 7, 1976 in Santa Monica, ...

184. Hans Székely

Writer | Arise, My Love

Hans Székely was born on July 7, 1901 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. He was a writer, known for Arise, My Love (1940), Paris Calling (1941) and Die singende Stadt (1930). He was married to Erzsi Bársony. He died on December 16, 1958 in East Berlin, East Germany.

185. Buffalo Bill Cody

Writer | Fighting with Buffalo Bill

Buffalo Bill Cody was born on February 26, 1846 in Scott County, Iowa, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Fighting with Buffalo Bill (1926), Battling with Buffalo Bill (1931) and The Indians Are Coming (1930). He was married to Louise Maude Frederici. He died on January 10, 1917 in Denver...

aka Buffalo Bill

186. Vasco Pratolini

Writer | Rocco e i suoi fratelli

Vasco Pratolini was born on October 19, 1913 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. He was a writer, known for Rocco and His Brothers (1960), Family Diary (1962) and The Four Days of Naples (1962). He died on January 12, 1991 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

187. Clara Beranger

Writer | Cameo Kirby

Clara S. Beranger was born in Baltimore, Maryland and was a 1907 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Goucher College in Baltimore. Early in her career, she wrote some newspaper and magazine articles. On a whim, she submitted a screenplay which was accepted. She eventually found work writing for several ...

188. Curt Goetz

Writer | Frauenarzt Dr. Prätorius

Curt Goetz was born on November 17, 1888 in Mainz, Grand Duchy of Hesse [now Rhineland-Palatinate], Germany. He was a writer and actor, known for Frauenarzt Dr. Prätorius (1950), Hocuspocus (1953) and Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend (1923). He was married to Valerie von Martens and ...

189. Paul West

Writer | Great Expectations

Paul West was born on January 26, 1871 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer and director, known for Great Expectations (1917), At the Mercy of Men (1918) and The Ordeal of Rosetta (1918). He died on October 29, 1918 in Seine River, France.

190. Robert Musil

Writer | Der junge Törless

Robert Musil was born on November 6, 1880 in Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was a writer, known for Young Törless (1966), Emergency Squad (1940) and Die Schwärmer (2013). He was married to Martha Marcovaldi. He died on April 15, 1942 in Geneva, Switzerland.

191. Frank Cavett

Writer | Going My Way

Frank Cavett was born on December 27, 1905 in Jackson, Ohio, USA. He was a writer and assistant director, known for Going My Way (1944), The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) and Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947). He was married to Mary Oakes. He died on March 25, 1973 in Santa Monica, California, ...

192. Felix Jackson

Writer | Bachelor Mother

Felix Jackson was born on June 5, 1902 in Hamburg, Germany. He was a producer and writer, known for Bachelor Mother (1939), I'll Be Yours (1947) and Destry Rides Again (1939). He was married to Ilka Windish, Deanna Durbin, Harley Wood, Lici Balla and Ellen Levy. He died on December 7, 1992 in ...

193. Joseph C. Lincoln

Writer | Idle Tongues

Joseph C. Lincoln was born in 1870. He was a writer, known for Idle Tongues (1924), No Trespassing (1922) and Cap'n Eri (1915). He died in 1944.

194. Ben Ames Williams

Writer | Leave Her to Heaven

American short-story writer and novelist Ben Ames Williams was born in Macon, Mississippi, in 1889. Shortly afterwards his father, a newspaperman, bought the "Jackson Standard Journal" in Jackson, Ohio, and the family moved there. Williams grew up in the newspaper business, and while in high school...

195. Rupert Hughes

Writer | Souls for Sale

Rupert Hughes was born on January 31, 1872 in Lancaster, Missouri, USA. He was a writer and director, known for Souls for Sale (1923), True As Steel (1924) and Look Your Best (1923). He was married to Patterson Dial, Mrs. Rupert Hughes and Agnes Wheeler Hedge. He died on September 9, 1956 in ...

196. Stan Lee

Producer | Doctor Strange

Stan Lee was an American comic-book writer, editor, and publisher, who was executive vice president and publisher of Marvel Comics.

Stan was born in New York City, to Celia (Solomon) and Jack Lieber, a dress cutter. His parents were Romanian Jewish immigrants. Lee co-created Spider-Man, the Hulk, ...

197. Mario Soldati

Writer | La provinciale

Mario Soldati studied by the Jesuits and in the 1920s was acquainted with liberal intellectuals who gathered around Piero Gobetti. He wrote his first play ("Pilatus") when he was 18, and published hist first short story collection ("Salmace") in 1929. In 1935 he reached literary success with "...

198. Alberto Lattuada

Writer | Guendalina

Alberto Lattuada was born on November 13, 1914 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Guendalina (1957), Flesh Will Surrender (1947) and Bambina (1974). He was married to Carla Del Poggio. He died on July 3, 2005 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

199. Edith Wharton

Writer | The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton (née Jones) was an American novelist and short story writer from New York City. She had insider knowledge of New York's upper class, which she realistically portrayed in her works. In 1921, Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She won the award for her...

200. Margaret Atwood

Writer | The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood was born on November 18, 1939 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She is a writer and producer, known for The Handmaid's Tale (2017), Alias Grace (2017) and MaddAddam. She was previously married to Graeme Gibson and Jim Polk.