Richard Connell (Author)

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Richard Edward Connell, Jr. (born October 17, 1893 in Dutchess County , New York , † November 22, 1949 in Beverly Hills , Los Angeles , California ) was an American journalist and writer of short stories and screenplays , each one time was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Story as well as a Writers Guild of America Award (WGA Award) for Best Screenplay. His 1924 published short story The Most Dangerous Game ( The cruelest game ) is one of the most frequently in anthologies published short stories and was filmed several times.

Life

Connell began working for his father's daily newspaper at the age of ten and wrote about baseball games for them before he became editor of this newspaper in 1909 at the age of sixteen . After doing his military service in the US Army during the First World War , he lived for several years in various countries in Europe . After returning to the US in the mid-1920s, he began writing short stories such as Tropic of Capricorn , A Little Bit of Broadway , Isles of Romance , One Hundred Dollars , A Friend of Napoleon, and If I Was Alone with You .

Great fame he achieved by its 1924 published short story The cruelest game ( The Most Dangerous Game ), which is one of the most widely published in anthologies short stories, and was filmed several times, such as Count Zaroff - genius of evil (The Most Dangerous Game, 1932), which Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel had staged with Joel McCrea , Fay Wray and Leslie Banks . Later film adaptations include, for example, Surviving the Game - Kill Him! (Surviving the Game, 1994) and The Pest - Hunt for the Chameleon (The Pest, 1997)

At the Oscar ceremony in 1942 , he was with Robert Presnell Sr. for the Oscar for best original story nominated, specifically for the movie Meet John Doe (Meet John Doe, 1941) by Frank Capra with Gary Cooper , Barbara Stanwyck and Edward Arnold .

1945 got Connell with Gladys Lehman nominated for the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for by Richard Thorpe staged revue film My Girls and a Sailor (Two Girls and a Sailor, 1944) with June Allyson , Gloria DeHaven and Van Johnson .

Most recently, Connell was nominated in the year of his death in 1949 for the Prize of the Writers Guild of America (WGA Award) for the best American musical, again with Gladys Lehman for love on board (Luxury Liner, 1948) by Richard Whorf with George Brent , Jane Powell and Lauritz Melchior in the lead roles.

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SURNAME Connell, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Connell, Richard Edward Jr. (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Dutchess County , New York
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1949
Place of death Beverly Hills , Los Angeles, California