Oscar Millard

Oscar Ernest Millard (born March 1, 1908 in London , England , † December 7, 1990 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American screenwriter and writer .

Screenwriter and writer Oscar Millard 1986 in Salzburg

Life

Oscar Ernest Millard was already an established writer in England when he was hired as a scriptwriter by 20th Century Fox after World War II . With ... and heaven laughs, he made his debut as a screenwriter and three years later he was nominated for Best Original Story at the 1952 Academy Awards for his story about Froschmänner . Until the end of the 1960s he was regularly employed as an author for various film and television productions. He later traveled extensively in Europe, mainly Austria, and wrote travel articles for various newspapers and news magazines, including the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times .

Millard died on December 7, 1990, at his home in Pacific Palisades, aged 82 . He has been found to have natural causes of death after swimming his daily laps and eating breakfast. He left behind his second wife Brita, whom he had met in Austria, and his niece Anne Marie Krause.

Works

Novels

• Safe enough (1956)
• The Con Lady (1958)
• A Missing Person (1972)

Filmography

• 1949: ... and heaven laughs at it ( Come to the Stable )
• 1951: No Highway in the Sky ( No Highway in the Sky )
• 1951: Frogmen ( The Frogmen )
• 1952: Angel Face ( Angel Face )
• 1953: Murderer Without a Mask ( Second Chance )
• 1956: The Conqueror ( The Conqueror )
• 1960: Few Are Chosen ( Song Without End )
• 1964: The Black Circle (Dead Ringer)
• 1965: Seven Ride to Hell ( The Reward )
• 1972: Top Secret ( The Salzburg Connection )

Web links

• Oscar Millard in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Myrna Oliver: Oscar Millard; Novelist and Screenwriter , Los Angeles Times , December 10, 1990