Crane Wilbur

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Crane Wilbur (1916)

Crane Wilbur (born November 17, 1886 as Erwin Crane Wilbur in Athens , New York , † October 18, 1973 in Toluca Lake , Los Angeles , California ) was an American filmmaker who appeared as a film actor , screenwriter and film director . His work received awards and other nominations at the Oscars . But he also appeared on Broadway as a stage actor and author.

Life

Wilbur was born in Athens in 1886. He was married five times, including the actresses Beatrice Blinn (1901–1979) and Lenita Lane (1901–1995); with the latter the marriage lasted until his death. He was a nephew of actor Tyrone Power, Sr. and the cousin of Tyrone Power .

Crane Wilbur died on October 18, 1973, at the age of 86, of complications from a pulmonary embolism in Toluca Lake, California. He was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills .

Career

Crane Wilbur began his acting career. He mostly stood in front of the camera in short films in the 1910s, but also showed his skills in writing screenplays and as a director of his own works, and in that decade he appeared in 80 films. After nine more films by 1936, he switched sides in the film business in order to work more successfully behind the camera.

In the meantime he wrote scripts for plays and was also on stage himself.

In 1937, Wilbur directed the Oscar-nominated short film The Man Without a Country in 1937 . His films Swingtime in the Movies and The Declaration of Independence each received a nomination for Best Short Film at the 1939 Academy Awards , the latter being awarded an Oscar .

Crane Wilbur (1914)

I won't play! received an Oscar at the Academy Awards in 1949 in the category Best Short Film (2 film roles) , where he was involved as a director in this project.

Wilbur wrote the screenplay for the 1951 documentary I Was FBI Mann MC , which received an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary the following year . In the same year he released Mutiny at Dawn , a detective film shot in prison. No director had done this before. For the monumental film Salomon and the Queen of Sheba , he wrote the story that King Vidor filmed. In 1961 he wrote the screenplay for The Mysterious Island for Jules Verne 's novel of the same name .

Filmography (selection)

As a director

  • 1916: The Love Liar (also actor)
  • 1934: High School Girl (also actor)
  • 1934: Tomorrow's Children (also actor)
  • 1936: Yellow Cargo (also actor)
  • 1937: The Man Without a Country (short film)
  • 1938: The Declaration of Independence (short film)
  • 1938: Swingtime in the Movies (short film, also screenplay)
  • 1944: I Won't Play! (Short film)
  • 1947: The Devil on Wheels (also screenplay)
  • 1948: Rebellion in the Gray House ( Canon City , also screenplay)
  • 1949: Die Geschichte der Molly X. ( The Story of Molly X , also screenplay)
  • 1951: Mutiny at Dawn ( Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison , also screenplay)
  • 1959: Das Biest ( The Bat , also screenplay)

Only involved as an actor

Only involved as a screenwriter

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Crane Wilbur, Film Actor, Writer and Director, Dies. New York Times , October 21, 1973; accessed January 5, 2018 .
  2. ^ Cran Wilbur (1886-1973). Accessed January 5, 2018 .
  3. ^ Crane Wilbur. Rotten Tomatoes , accessed January 5, 2018 .
  4. ^ The 10th Academy Awards - 1938. Oscars.org, accessed January 5, 2018 .
  5. ^ The 11th Academy Awards - 1939. Oscars.org, accessed January 5, 2018 .
  6. ↑ The 17th Academy Awards - 1945. Oscars.org, accessed January 5, 2018 .
  7. ^ The 24th Academy Awards - 1952. Oscars.org, accessed January 5, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Wilbur, Crane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilbur, Erwin Cran (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director, film actor and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens (New York) , New York (State) , United States
DATE OF DEATH 18th October 1973
Place of death Toluca Lake , Los Angeles , California , United States