Owen Crump
Owen Crump (born December 30, 1903 in Muskogee , Oklahoma , † February 13, 1998 in West Hollywood , California ) was an American screenwriter , director and film producer .
Life
Owen Crump was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, in 1903. His first marriage was to actress Isabel Jewell in 1936, who divorced in 1941. After this marriage he married Lucile Fairbanks , who also worked as an actress in the 1940s, this marriage lasted until his death. His father-in-law Robert Fairbanks (1882-1948) worked behind the camera in various areas, but was not as successful as his brother Douglas Fairbanks senior and his son Douglas Fairbanks junior .
Owen Crump died on February 13, 1998 at the age of 94.
Career
Early in his career, Crump wrote screenplays and acted as voice-over for the propaganda films for Warner Bros. , which were produced and published in the 1940s, during the Second World War . He wrote the story for the 1943 Oscar-nominated film Winning Your Wings with James Stewart in the category of best documentary . In the same year he worked on the script for the short film Men of the Sky , in which he could also be heard as an off-speaker. In 1951 he was responsible as a producer for the documentary short film One Who Came Back and received an Oscar nomination in 1952 for the best documentary short film category . The Seeing Eye was nominated in the same category , with Crump directing it. Both films lost to Fred Zinnemann's Benjy . In 1971 he was responsible for the film drama Zeppelin as a producer and for the story. His last job in the film business was the script for the short television film The Pink Panther in 'Pink at First Sight' in 1981.
Archival footage from Crump was used in the Oscar-winning documentary The Last Days of James Moll .
Filmography (selection)
- 1941: White Sails (short film)
- 1942: Winning Your Wings (documentary)
- 1942: Men of the Sky
- 1951: One Who Came Back
- 1951: The Seeing Eye
- 1953: The last patrol (Cease Fire!)
- 1953: Winter Paradise (short documentary)
- 1956: Time Stood Still (short film)
- 1958: Manhunt in the Jungle
- 1962: Always point 7 (The Couch)
- 1967: water hole no. 3 (Waterhole No. 3)
- 1971: Zeppelin
- 1981: The Pink Panther in 'Pink at First Sight' (TV short film)
Web links
- Owen Crump in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The 24th Academy Awards - 1952. Oscars.org, accessed January 5, 2018 .
- ^ The Seeing Eye. IMDb , accessed on January 5, 2018 .
- ↑ The Last Days (1999). IMDb, accessed on January 5, 2018 .
- ↑ The 71th Academy Awards - 1999. Oscars.org, accessed on January 5, 2018 (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Crump, Owen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American screenwriter, film director and film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 30, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Muskogee , Oklahoma , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 13, 1998 |
| Place of death | West Hollywood , California , United States |