Wendell Mayes

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Wendell Mayes (born July 21, 1919 in Hayti , Missouri , † March 28, 1992 in Santa Monica , California ) was an American screenwriter .

biography

Wendell Mayes began his show career as an actor. To promote himself as an actor, he began writing screenplays for television. One of those scripts for an episode of Kraft Television Theater got such good reviews that director Billy Wilder hired Mayes to write Lindbergh - My Flight Over the Ocean . Mayes remained loyal to this subject in the following years. In 1961 he also worked on a German production ( Spanish legend ). Although his output of manuscripts with just under 20 scripts was low, he had quite a respectable success with these.

His greatest success was the script for Anatomy of a Murder , the adaptation of the novel of the same name by Robert Traver. He won the NYFCC Award from the New York Film Critics Circle in 1959 and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1960 and for the WGA Award from the Writers Guild of America in the same year . He received another nomination for the WGA Award in 1979 for The Last Battle .

Wendell Mayes died on March 28, 1992 at the age of 72.

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