Gordon McDonell
Gordon McDonell (born October 30, 1905 in Reigate , Surrey , England , † December 16, 1995 in Green Valley , Arizona ) was a British- American screenwriter and writer who was nominated once for the Oscar for best original story.
Life
Gordon McDonell was educated at Sandhurst Military College . In 1925 he went to India, where he lived in different parts of the country. Among other things, he worked as an exchange broker in Calcutta . Then McDonell lived in Europe, traded tea and started writing books. From 1937 he lived in California.
McDonell was the same for his first template for a film for the Oscar for best original story nominated, namely at the Academy Awards in 1944 for the by Alfred Hitchcock staged feature film Shadow of a Doubt (Shadow of a Doubt, 1943) with Teresa Wright , Joseph Cotten and Macdonald Carey in the lead roles. The story was later filmed two more times: On the one hand in 1955 for the television series Lux Video Theater as Shadow of a Doubt by Richard Goode with Ken Carpenter , George Chandler and Byron Foulger , on the other hand as a television film under the title Im Schatten des Doubt (Shadow of a Doubt, 1991) by Karen Arthur with Mark Harmon , Margaret Welsh and Norm Skaggs .
Filmography
- 1943: Shadow of a Doubt ( Shadow of a Doubt )
- 1947: They Won't Believe Me
- 1955: Lux Video Theater (TV series)
- 1958: Step Down to Terror
- 1970: The Road Warrior ( The Executioner )
- 1991: Shadow of a Doubt ( Shadow of a Doubt )
Web links
- Gordon McDonell in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Goldmann (Hrsg.): Lexicon of Goldmann pocket books . tape 1000 . Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1963, p. 207 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McDonell, Gordon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British-American screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reigate , Surrey , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 16, 1995 |
| Place of death | Green Valley , Arizona |