Nelson Gidding

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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 .

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personal data
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