Richard L. Breen

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Richard L. Breen (born June 26, 1918 in Chicago , Illinois , † February 1, 1967 in Los Angeles County , California ) was an American film director and screenwriter who won the Oscar for best original screenplay for the film at the 1954 Academy Awards Sinking of the Titanic (1953).

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Breen began his career as a screenwriter in the Hollywood film industry in the late 1940s and made his debut with the screenplay for the romantic comedy A Foreign Affair (1948) by Billy Wilder . For this he was not only nominated at the same time as Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder for the Oscar in the category of best adapted screenplay at the 1949 Academy Awards, but also for the Prize of the Writers Guild of America (WGA Award) for the best American comedy. He was also nominated with C. Brackett for the WGA Award for the comedy Miss Tatlock's Millions (1948) by Richard Haydn .

For the film Downfall of the Titanic (1953) by Jean Negulesco , he and Charles Brackett and Walter Reisch received the Oscar for best original screenplay in 1954 . Breen was involved with Beirne Lay junior on the script for the 1955 nominated short film 24 Hour Alert .

In 1963 he was nominated for the WGA Award for the best American musical Texas Show (1962) by José Ferrer . Breen received another nomination for a WGA Award together with Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron for Captain Newman (1963) by David Miller and was nominated for an Oscar for the best adapted screenplay at the 1964 Academy Awards with the co-authors .

Other well-known films as a screenwriter include the thriller Niagara (1953) by Henry Hathaway and the crime film The Sniffer (1967) by Gordon Douglas . As a film director, Breen only made one film and that was the espionage thriller Secret Ring Nippon (1957).

In addition to serving as President of the Screen Writers Guild from 1952 to 1953, Breen was also the first President of the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) between 1954 and 1955 . In 1967 he was posthumously awarded the Edward J. North Prize from the Writers Guild of America for his life's work .

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SURNAME Breen, Richard L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter and film director
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1967
Place of death Los Angeles County , California