Sue Dwiggins
Sue Dwiggins Worsley (actually Miriam Gretchen Sues , born April 20, 1914 in Los Angeles , † December 31, 2011 in Studio City , California ) was an American screenwriter and film production employee .
Life
Dwiggins was the daughter of a silent film cameraman and an assistant editor . In 1938 she married the author Don Dwiggins. Her second marriage was to cameraman William Bradford , who worked for the Republic Pictures production company and got her to work actively for the industry before they got married in the early 1950s.
So she scripted in 1951 for the "Gene Autry Show" of American television, later she was on the production staff of "Gene Autry Prods", at Four Star Television and finally at 20th Century Fox . During the filming of Everyone's First To Die , she met her third husband, production manager Wallace Worsley junior , in 1971 , with whom she has since worked professionally on his projects. For ET - The Extra-Terrestrial, for example, she coordinated production. After the death of her husband, she retired from work in 1991.
Under the name "Sue Bradford" she wrote the script for the B horror film Indestructible Man .
In 1997, From Oz to ET, a biography of her husband that appeared with her help and under her name, was published.
Filmography (selection)
As a production secretary
- 1969: 100 Rifles (100 Rifles)
- 1969: Viva Max! (Viva Max)
- 1971: Focal Point Brooklyn (The French Connection)
- 1972: Everyone dies when they die (Deliverance)
- 1977: Slap Shot (Slap Shot)
- 1984: Only Death Is Free (The River Rat)
- 1985: The Winners - American Flyers (American Flyers)
Production coordination
- 1982: ET : The Extra-Terrestrial
script
- 1951: The Gene Autry Show
- 1956: The Strangler of Sing-Sing (Indestructible Man)
- 1963: Monstrosity
Web links
- Sue Dwiggins in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Obituary of variety
Individual evidence
- ^ Staff and contents of the episode Double Barreled Vengeance
- ↑ From Oz to "ET" .: Wally Worsley's Half-century in Hollywood - A Memoir in Collaboration with Sue Dwiggins Worsley (Scarecrow Filmmakers Series), 1997, ISBN 9780810832770
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dwiggins, Sue |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sues, Miriam Gretchen; Bradford, Sue; Worsley, Sue Dwiggins |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American screenwriter and film production assistant |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | los Angeles |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 31, 2011 |
| Place of death | Studio City |