Nelson Gidding
Nelson Roosevelt Gidding (born September 15, 1919 in New York City , New York , USA , † May 1, 2004 in Santa Monica , California , USA ) was an American screenwriter and writer .
Life
Nelson Gidding, born and raised in New York, graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and was a friend of American writer Norman Mailer at a young age . After graduating from Harvard University , he served as a soldier in the Air Force in World War II , and among other things flew a Martin B-26 . Gidding, who was shot down over Italy , spent 18 months in a prisoner-of-war camp and returned to the United States in 1945. He processed his impressions during the war in his only novel , End Over End , in 1946 .
Giddings work in Hollywood began in 1953 as the writer of the British fantasy film The Triangle . While he wrote exclusively for television series in the 1950s , he changed fields in the early 1960s and wrote for feature films , mostly working on the literary sources of others. However, he did not write his best-known screenplay until 1975, when he let Die Hindenburg go up in flames, at least cinematically. In 1979 the screenplay for Hunt for the Poseidon was written . But it was his work on the 1958 crime film Let Me Live , for which Gidding was nominated in 1959 together with Don Mankiewicz for an Oscar in the category “ Best Adapted Screenplay ”. For this film, both were nominated for the WGA Award - but they were always denied an award. In 1993, after working on the horror film The Mummy Lives , Nelson Gidding retired into private life.
He was married twice. In 1949 he married Hildegarde Colligan Gidding, with whom he had a 46-year marriage. With her he had his only child, son Joshua Gidding, who is now a college professor in New York . After the death of his first wife in June 1995, he married Chun-Ling Wang, a native of China, in 1998 , with whom he was married for the last six years of his life.
Nelson Gidding died of heart failure at the age of 84 .
Filmography
- 1957: A Life Intoxicated (The Helen Morgan Story)
- 1958: Let me live (I want to Live!)
- 1958: The Onion Head
- 1959: Odds Against Tomorrow (Odds Against Tomorrow)
- 1962: The Inspector ( Lisa )
- 1963: Until the Blood Freezes (The Haunting)
- 1963: Nine Hours to eternity (Nine Hours to Rama)
- 1966: They Fear Neither Death nor the Devil (Lost Command)
- 1970: Adventure in New Guinea (Skullduggery)
- 1971: Andromeda - Deadly Dust from Space (The Andromeda Strain)
- 1975: The Hindenburg (The Hindenburg)
- 1979: Hunt for the Poseidon (Beyond the Poseidon Adventure)
- 1986: The Gallows Birds (Wheels of Terror)
- 1992: Shogun Mayeda (Kabuto)
- 1993: Mummy Valley (The Mummy Lives)
Awards
- 1959: Oscar nomination, Best Adapted Screenplay , for: Let me live ( I want to Live! )
- 1959: WGA Award nomination, Best Drama, for: Let me live ( I want to Live! )
Web links
- Nelson Gidding in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Gidding, Nelson |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gidding, Nelson Roosevelt (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American screenwriter |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 15, 1919 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City , New York , USA |
DATE OF DEATH | May 1, 2004 |
Place of death | Santa Monica , California , USA |