Neil Paterson

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James Edmund Neil Paterson (born December 31, 1915 in Greenock , Inverclyde , Scotland , † April 19, 1995 in Crieff , Perth and Kinross , Scotland) was a Scottish football player and writer and screenwriter .

Life

After graduating from the University of Edinburgh Paterson was active as an amateur footballer with Leith Athletic and Dundee United in the Scottish Football League in the mid-1930s . In the 1936/37 season Paterson was named team captain of Dundee United and scored nine goals in 26 games that season. After this season, Paterson ended his football career and devoted himself to journalism .

Paterson started out as a sports reporter for a newspaper in Dundee . During World War II he enlisted in the Navy and survived the bombing of the ship HMS Vanessa . After the end of the war he developed into a writer. But it wasn't until 1953 that Paterson's breakthrough came when one of his novels, Man on a Tightrope , was adapted into a film by Elia Kazan .

Neil Paterson's ten scripts, most of which he wrote in the 1950s, also included the 1959 drama The Way Up , for which Paterson won an Oscar in the 1960's Best Adapted Screenplay category.

In the further course of his career, Paterson took on largely administrative management positions, including as governor of the British Film Institute and as studio boss of the Scottish television station Grampian Television .

Neil Paterson, who had three sons, died in 1995 at the age of 78.

Works

  • Race to China. Rowohlt Hamburg.
  • Thirza, daughter of the sea. Rowohlt Hamburg.
  • A man on a tightrope / George Wilson. Two stories. Translator: Arno Schmidt , Rowohlt Hamburg, 1953.

Web links

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  1. ↑ OBITUARY: Neil Paterson , The Independent article , June 15, 1995
  2. ↑ a b Have any players been part of World Cup-winning and Oscar-winning teams? , The Knowledge, Guardian article dated February 11, 2015


personal data
SURNAME Paterson, Neil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paterson, James Edmund Neil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish soccer player and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Greenock , Inverclyde , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1995
Place of death Crieff , Perth and Kinross , Scotland