Nedrick Young

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Nedrick Young (* 23. March 1914 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ; † 16th September 1968 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American film actor and screenwriter , who under his pseudonym Nathan E. Douglas 1959 Oscar in the category Best Original Screenplay for Escape in chains received.

Life

Young made during the Second World War, his military service in the US Army and began during the war a career as an actor in film productions of Warner Bros. His debut he gave in 1942 in the film Bombs Over Burma by Joseph H. Lewis , then played until his Death roles in nearly 30 films under the stage name Ned Young .

He also began working as a screenwriter after World War II, but was enlisted in the US Senate in 1953 for standing up for his rights under the 5th Amendment to the United States Constitution , particularly those relating to the right to self-testify Government Operations Committee , chaired by Senator Joseph McCarthy on the " black list " is set, what a prohibition equaled.

He therefore wrote the screenplay for Stanley Kramer's Escape in Chains under the pseudonym Nathan E. Douglas. In 1959, he and Harold Jacob Smith won the Oscar for best original screenplay. He and Smith also received the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Screenplay , the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay (1958) and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best American Drama (1959).

At the 1961 Academy Awards , he and Smith were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay , for Who Sows the Wind (1960) by Stanley Kramer.

Another well-known film based on a template he wrote was Jailhouse Rock - Rhythm Behind Bars (1957) by Richard Thorpe .

Young was first married to actress Frances Sage and then was married to actress Elizabeth MacRae from 1965 until his death . This campaigned for the reputation of her husband, which had suffered due to the blacklist of the McCarthy era, to be restored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in 1993 and he was rehabilitated.

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SURNAME Young, Nedrick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Young, Ned (stage name); Douglas, Nathan E. (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film actor and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, United States
DATE OF DEATH 16th September 1968
Place of death Los Angeles , California, United States