Guy Trosper

Guy W. Trosper (born March 27, 1911 in Lander , Wyoming , † December 19, 1963 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American screenwriter and film producer who was posthumously awarded the Edgar Allan Poe Award and once for an Oscar was nominated for Best Original Story and three times for Best Screenplay Award from the Writers Guild of America (WGA).

Life

Trosper began his career as a screenwriter in the Hollywood film industry in 1941 in the film drama I'll Wait For You, directed by Robert B. Sinclair , starring Robert Sterling , Marsha Hunt and Virginia Weidler . He wrote the scripts and templates for twenty films.

In 1951 Trosper was first nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award (WGA Award) for Best Western Screenplay, namely for Curse of the Blood (Devil's Doorway, 1950) by Anthony Mann with Robert Taylor , Louis Calhern and Paula Raymond .

At the Academy Awards in 1953 , he was nominated for the Oscar for Best Original Story. This nomination was made for The Pride of St. Louis (The Pride of St. Louis, 1952), one of Harmon Jones directed biopic about the baseball player Dizzy Dean with Dan Dailey , Joanne Dru and Richard Hylton .

In 1963, Trosper was again nominated for the WGA Award for the screenplay for John Frankenheimer's feature film The Prisoner of Alcatraz (Birdman of Alcatraz, 1962) with Burt Lancaster , Karl Malden and Thelma Ritter , this time the nomination was in the category for the best-written drama. He was also the producer of this film.

1966 Trosper was posthumously awarded the Edgar Award, along with Paul Dehn for after the eponymous novel by le John Carré incurred The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, 1965) of Martin Ritt with Richard Burton , Claire Bloom and Oskar Werner . For this film, he and Paul Dehn were also nominated in 1966 for the WGA Award for best-written film drama.

personal data
SURNAME	Trosper, guy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Trosper, Guy W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American screenwriter and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 27, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lander , Wyoming
DATE OF DEATH	December 19, 1963
Place of death	Los Angeles , California