Dudley Nichols
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Dudley Nichols (April 6, 1895 – January 4, 1960) was an American screenwriter and director.
Dudley Nichols was born April 6, 1895, in Wapakoneta, Ohio. He studied at the University of Michigan where he was active member of the Sigma Chapter of Theta Xi fraternity.
After working as a reporter for the New York World, Nichols moved to Hollywood in 1929 and became one of the most highly regarded screenwriters of the 1930s and 1940s. He collaborated on many films over many years with director John Ford, and was also noted for his work with George Cukor, Howard Hawks, Fritz Lang and Jean Renoir.
Nichols wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for films including Bringing Up Baby (1938), Stagecoach (1939), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Scarlet Street (1945), And Then There Were None (1945), The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), Pinky (1949) and The Tin Star (1957).
Nichols initially declined the Academy Award he received for The Informer, due to a dispute between the Screen Writers Guild, of which he was a founder, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He collected the award at the 1938 Oscar ceremony. He served as president of the Screen Writers Guild in 1937 and 1938.
He also co-wrote the documentary The Battle of Midway, which won the 1942 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Nichols produced and directed three films—Government Girl (1943), Sister Kenny (1946) and Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)—for which he also wrote the screenplay.
In 1954 he received the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement from the Writers Guild of America.
He died in Hollywood of cancer in 1960 and was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
Movies (63)
Stagecoach
1966 · Writer
Ten Little Indians
1965 · Screenplay
Escape from Zahrain
1962 · Writer
Heller in Pink Tights
1960 · Screenplay
The Hangman
1959 · Writer
The Tin Star
1957 · Screenplay
Run for the Sun
1956 · Screenplay
Prince Valiant
1954 · Screenplay
The Big Sky
1952 · Screenplay
Return of the Texan
1952 · Screenplay
Rawhide
1951 · Writer
Pinky
1949 · Screenplay
Mourning Becomes Electra
1947 · Director, Producer, Writer
The Fugitive
1947 · Screenplay
Sister Kenny
1946 · Screenplay, Director
The Bells of St. Mary's
1945 · Screenplay
Scarlet Street
1945 · Screenplay
And Then There Were None
1945 · Screenplay
It Happened Tomorrow
1944 · Adaptation, Screenplay
Government Girl
1943 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943 · Screenplay
Bataan
1943 · Writer
This Land Is Mine
1943 · Screenplay, Producer
Air Force
1943 · Screenplay
The Battle of Midway
1942 · Writer
Swamp Water
1941 · Writer
Man Hunt
1941 · Screenplay
The Long Voyage Home
1940 · Screenplay
The Marshal Of Mesa City
1939 · Story
The 400 Million
1939 · Writer
Stagecoach
1939 · Screenplay
Carefree
1938 · Story, Adaptation
Bringing Up Baby
1938 · Screenplay
The Hurricane
1937 · Screenplay
The Toast of New York
1937 · Screenplay
The Plough and the Stars
1936 · Screenplay
Mary of Scotland
1936 · Screenplay
The Three Musketeers
1935 · Screenplay
Steamboat Round the Bend
1935 · Screenplay
The Crusades
1935 · Screenplay
She
1935 · Additional Dialogue
The Arizonian
1935 · Screenplay
The Informer
1935 · Screenplay
Life Begins at Forty
1935 · Screenplay
Mystery Woman
1935 · Story
Judge Priest
1934 · Screenplay
Call It Luck
1934 · Screenplay
Hold That Girl
1934 · Writer
The Lost Patrol
1934 · Screenplay
You Can't Buy Everything
1934 · Screenplay
Pilgrimage
1933 · Dialogue
The Man Who Dared
1933 · Writer
Hot Pepper
1933 · Story
Robbers' Roost
1932 · Adaptation
This Sporting Age
1932 · Screenplay
Skyline
1931 · Writer
Three Rogues
1931 · Writer
Seas Beneath
1931 · Screenplay
A Devil with Women
1930 · Writer
One Mad Kiss
1930 · Writer
On the Level
1930 · Screenplay
Born Reckless
1930 · Screenplay
Men Without Women
1930 · Screenplay
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