Edmund H. North

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Edmund H. North (born March 12, 1911 in New York City , New York - † August 28, 1990 in Santa Monica , California ) was an American screenwriter who starred in 1971 with Francis Ford Coppola for the war film Patton - Rebel in Uniform won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.

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North began as a screenwriter and storyline writer for film productions in the 1930s , and first appeared in the creation of a film in 1934 as the writer of Frank Tuttle 's romantic musical comedy All the King's Horses .

Other well-known films with scripts and templates written by him were One Night of Love (1934) by Victor Schertzinger The Street of the Successful (1949) by Michael Curtiz , Ein Einsamer Ort (1950) by Nicholas Ray , The day on which the earth stood still (1951) by Robert Wise , The Last Ride of Bismarck (1960) by Lewis Gilbert and Rebellion (1962) by Lewis Gilbert. In 1967 he received the Valentine Davies Award from the Writers Guild of America for his services .

Together with Francis Ford Coppola he received not only the Oscar for the best original screenplay for Patton - Rebel in Uniform (1970) by Franklin J. Schaffner , but also the Prize of the Writers Guild of America (WGA Award) for the best film script.

North also received the WGA's Morgan Cox Award in 1975 and most recently wrote the screenplay for the 1979 science fiction film Meteor by Ronald Neame . He was married to screenwriter Eleanor Hall and had children together, Susie North and Bobbie North, who starred in a 2008 documentary about their father for the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008).

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SURNAME North, Edmund H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1990
Place of death Santa Monica , California