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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 148

1853-12-13 - Joseph Sickman Corsen, Curacao, musician/composer/screenwriter
1888-11-18 - Frances Marion, SF CA, screenwriter/actress (Pollyanna)
1890-04-23 - Marcel L'Herbier, French director/screenwriter (El Dorado)
1891-04-15 - Wallace Reid, St Louis MO, actor/dir/screenwriter (Every Inch a Man)
1893-02-28 - Ben Hecht, NYC, novelist/playwright/screenwriter (Front Page)
1893-06-09 - Samuel N Behrman, US screenwriter (Tale of 2 Cities, Daddy Long Legs)
1896-01-16 - Ruth Rose, American screenwriter (d. 1978)
1897-04-30 - Humberto Mauro, Brazillina director and screenwriter (d. 1983)
1897-12-05 - Nunnally Johnson, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1977)
1899-08-02 - Charles Bennett, screenwriter
1900-02-16 - Albert Maurice Hackett, playwright/screenwriter
1900-03-04 - Herbert Biberman, American screenwriter (d. 1971)
1900-05-24 - Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter (d. 1984)
1900-07-06 - Frederica Sagor Maas, American playwright and screen writer (d. 2012)
1901-06-01 - John Van Druten, English screen writer (d. 1957)
1902-07-20 - Cesare Zavattini, Italian screenwriter (Bicycle Thiefs)
1902-09-20 - Cesare Zavattini, Italian screenwriter (Ladri di Biciclette)
1902-12-12 - Howard Koch, screenwriter
1903-04-26 - Niven Busch, US screenwriter (Postman Always Rings Twice)
1903-05-23 - Walter Reisch, US, screenwriter (Ninotchka, Gaslight, Titanic)
1905-05-17 - John Patrick, screenwriter
1905-09-30 - Michael Powell, English director/screen writer/producer (Red Shoes)
1907-06-17 - Maurice Cloche, French film director and screenwriter (d. 1990)
1908-11-23 - Leendert P J Braat, Dutch sculptor/screenwriter
1909-05-26 - Richard Maibaum, NYC, screenwriter (Goldfinger)
1909-06-20 - Joan Harrison, screenwriter
1909-08-22 - Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (d. 2000)
1909-10-14 - Dorothy Kingsley, American screenwriter (d. 1996)
1910-04-17 - Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (d. 1999)
1911-03-21 - John Paxton, screenwriter (On The Beach, Kotch, Farewell My Lovely)
1911-11-04 - Jack Rose, screenwriter
1913-01-29 - Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (d. 2003)
1913-06-21 - Irving Shulman, author/screenwriter
1913-11-25 - Jack Davies, screenwriter
1914-03-28 - Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (d. 2000)
1914-04-21 - Norman Panama, American screenwriter (d. 2003)
1914-11-11 - Howard Fast, NYC, screenwriter (Rachel & the Stranger, Spartacus)
1915-08-19 - Lardner Ring Jr, Chicago, screenwriter (Woman of the Year)
1915-12-08 - Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (d. 2005)
1916-03-14 - Horton Foote, American author, playwright and screenwriter
1916-12-23 - Dino Risi, Italian film director and screenwriter
1918-01-13 - Ted Willis, prolific English screenwriter (It's Great to be Young)
1918-01-16 - Stirling Silliphant, screenwriter
1918-02-04 - Ida Lupino, actress screenwriter director/producer (Jennifer)
1918-09-05 - Luis Alcoriza, Mexican screenwriter, film director, and actor (d. 1992)
1918-11-03 - Dean Riesner, film and television screenwriter (d. 2002)
1919-09-15 - Nelson Gidding, American screenwriter (d. 2004)
1920-06-27 - I A L Diamond, screenwriter (1960 Acad Award-Apartment)
1922-03-22 - Stewart Stern, screenwriter (Rebel Without A Cause)
1922-06-02 - Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 2002)
1924-04-08 - Frédéric Back, German-born Canadian short film director and screenwriter
1924-05-09 - Jean J A Girault, French director/screenwriter (l'Amour)
1924-07-23 - Gavin Lambert, British-born screenwriter (d. 2005)
1926-01-24 - Georges Lautner, French director and screenwriter
1926-08-06 - Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (d. 1999)
Colombian Writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Gabriel García Márquez (1927-03-06) 1927-03-06 - Gabriel García Márquez, Aracataca, Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist (1982 Nobel Prize in Literature)
1927-05-01 - Roland Verhavert, Flemish screen writer (Sea Gulls Die in the Harbor)
1927-05-07 - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German screenwriter
1927-12-19 - James Booth, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2005)
1928-01-01 - Ernest R Tidyman, Ohio, novelist/screenwriter (French Connection)
1928-05-13 - Édouard Molinaro, French film actor, director and screenwriter
1928-08-07 - Romeo Muller, American screenwriter (d. 1992)
1929-06-30 - James Goldman, American screenwriter (d. 1998)
1929-12-19 - Howard Sackler, American screenwriter (d. 1982)
1930-12-09 - Buck Henry, NYC, screenwriter/comedian (SNL, Get Smart)
1931-05-10 - Ettore Scola, Italian director and screenwriter
1931-07-23 - Guy Fournier, French Canadian author and screenwriter
1931-09-19 - Jean-Claude Carrière, French screenwriter and actor
1932-09-10 - Bo Goldman, American screenwriter
1932-11-28 - Terence Frisby, poet/screenwriter (There's a Girl in My Soup)
1934-02-19 - Carole Eastman, American screenwriter (d. 2004)
1934-07-01 - Claude Berri, French actor, director and screenwriter
1934-07-25 - Claude Zidi, French film director and screenwriter
1934-11-23 - Robert Towne, producer/screenwriter (Chinatown)
1935-11-05 - Christopher Wood, English screenwriter and novellist
1937-07-28 - Francis Veber, French film director and screenwriter
1938-05-10 - Jean Becker, French director, screenwriter and actor
1938-11-03 - Jean Rollin, French director and screenwriter
1941-05-19 - Nora Ephron, NY, novelist/screenwriter/director (Michael, Heartburn), (d. 2012)
1941-08-01 - Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1942-06-01 - Tom Mankiewicz, LA California, screenwriter (Diamonds are Forever)
1942-09-29 - Steve Tesich, screenwriter/playwright
1944-11-23 - Joe Eszterhas, screenwriter (Basic Instinct, Showgirls)
1945-02-20 - Andrew Bergman, director/screenwriter (Soapdish, Honeymoon in Vegas)
1946-10-18 - James Robert Baker, American novelist, screenwriter
1947-03-04 - David Franzoni, American screenwriter
1947-05-12 - Micheline Lanctôt, American film actor, director and screenwriter
1948-05-30 - Michael Piller, American screenwriter (d. 2005)
1948-08-31 - Lowell Ganz, American screenwriter
1949-07-28 - Randall Wallace, American screenwriter and film producer
1950-03-04 - Ofelia Medina, Mexican actress and screenwriter
1950-06-03 - Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter
1950-11-10 - Debra Hill, American screenwriter and film producer (d. 2005)
1951-05-25 - Bob Gale, American screenwriter
1951-09-25 - Pedro Almodovar, Spain, director/screenwriter (Kika, Matador)
1954-02-11 - Wesley Strick, American screenwriter
1954-03-09 - Keven Wade, Chappaqua NY, screen writer (Working Girls)
1955-01-12 - Rockne S. O'Bannon, American screenwriter
1955-10-18 - David Twohy, American movie director and screenwriter
1955-11-19 - Sam Hamm, American screenwriter

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 20 of 20

1928-06-15 - "King Kong" actress Fay Wray (20) weds playwright-screenwriter John Monk Saunders (30)
1934-07-29 - "Titanic" actress Gloria Stuart (24) weds screenwriter Arthur Sheekman (33)
1942-08-23 - "King Kong" actress Fay Wray (34) weds screenwriter and playwright Robert Riskin (45)
1967-05-08 - "Bye Bye Birdie" actress Ann-Margret (26) weds actor and screenwriter Roger Smith (34)
1973-10-25 - American playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon (46) weds actress Marsha Mason (31)
1977-12-21 - American Jewish playwright and screenwriter "Glengarry Glen Ross" David Mamet marries 1st wife actress Lindsay Crouse
1991-09-22 - American Jewish playwright and screenwriter David Mamet marries 2nd wife, English actress Rebecca Pidgeon
1994-07-30 - Hollywood's highest-paid screenwriter Joe Eszterhas (49) weds Naomi Baka (35) in Maui, Hawaii
1995-10-21 - "Family Ties" actress Meredith Baxter (48) weds screenwriter Michael Blodgett (56) in Los Angeles
1996-11-13 - "A Room With A View" actor Daniel Day-Lewis (39) weds "Personal Velocity: Three Portraits" screenwriter Rebecca Miller (34) in Vermont
1997-09-27 - "The Cosby Show" actress Erika Alexander (28) weds screenwriter Tony Puryear (40) on outdoor ceremony in Malibu
Actor Daniel Day-Lewis (1996-11-13) 1999-07-10 - "It Could Happen To You" actress Rosie Perez (34) weds playwright and screenwriter Seth Zvi Rosenfeld (37) in Brooklyn, New York
2000-09-03 - "Will & Grace" actress Debra Messing (32) weds actor-screenwriter Daniel Zelman (33) at a private estate in Santa Barbara, California
2000-11-24 - Actor, screenwriter and director Jon Favreau (34) weds physician Joya Tillem (30) in Sonoma, California
2003-07-04 - Screenwriter and producer Dean Devlin (40) weds "Another World" actress Lisa Brenner (29)
2006-07-29 - "Providence" actress Paula Cale (36) weds screenwriter Michael Lisbe at Sopris Mountain Ranch in Basalt, Colorado
2006-09-30 - Actress Amanda Peet (34) weds screenwriter David Benioff (36) at Friends Seminary Quaker School in New York City
2010-07-03 - "The Office" actress Jenna Fischer (36) weds screenwriter Lee Kirk (38) in Malibu
2011-10-02 - Canadian stand-up comedian and actor Seth Rogen (30) weds screenwriter Lauren Miller at Kunde Family Estate in Sonoma, California
2011-10-16 - Actress, screenwriter and model Nikki Reed (24) weds singer-songwriter Paul McDonald (27) at a private ranch in Malibu, California

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 107

1906-09-02 - Guiseppe Giacosa, Ital screenwriter (libretti opera Puccini), dies
1924-12-06 - Gene Stratton-Porter, American author, screenwriter and naturalist (b. 1863)
1946-08-26 - Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1887)
1948-05-24 - Jacques Feyder, Belgian director and screenwriter (b. 1885)
1953-03-05 - Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter (b. 1897)
1957-12-19 - John W Van Druten, US stage/screenwriter (I Remember Mama), dies at 56
1959-08-06 - Preston Sturges, [Edmund Biden], US director/screenwriter, dies at 60
1966-02-18 - Robert Rossen, American screenwriter, producer, and director (b. 1908)
1967-06-10 - Frank Butler, actor/screenwriter (Road to Bali, China), dies at 76
1967-11-30 - Patrick Kavanagh, Irish screenwriterr (Great Hunger), dies
1970-06-02 - Albert Lamorisse, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
1971-06-30 - Herbert Biberman, Jewish American screenwriter and film director (b. 1900)
1973-05-12 - Frances Marion, screenwriter (Pollyanna, Camille), dies at 85
1973-09-09 - Samuel N Behrman, US stage/screenwriter (Quo Vardis), dies at 80
1973-11-03 - Marc Allégret, French director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
1974-12-15 - Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born screenwriter and film producer (b. 1902)
1977-04-11 - Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (b. 1900)
1981-08-01 - Paddy Chayefsky, screenwriter (Network, Hospital) dies of cancer at 58
1981-10-30 - Georges Brassens, French screenwriter, dies
1981-12-21 - Allan Dwan, Canadian-born American director and screenwriter (b. 1885)
1984-04-18 - John Lee Mahin, screenwriter, dies of emphysema at 81
1986-07-21 - Ernest Maas, American screenwriter (b. 1892)
1987-09-13 - Mervyn Leroy, actor/screenwriter/director (Quo Vadis), dies at 86
1989-01-16 - Pierre Boileau, screenwriter (Vertigo), dies at 82
1990-01-10 - Juliet Berto, screenwriter/actress (Bastienne Bastien), dies at 42
1991-06-27 - Milton Subotsky, American screenwriter (b. 1921)
1991-08-12 - William Gordon, screenwriter (Back to Bataan), dies
1992-02-10 - Meade Roberts, screenwriter, dies of congestive heart failure at 61
1992-03-15 - Helen Deutsch, screenwriter, dies of natural causes
1992-05-02 - Philip Dunne, screenwriter, dies of cancer at 84
1992-06-02 - Philip Dunne, founder (Screen Writers Guild), dies of cancer at 84
1992-09-07 - Henry Ephron, US screenwriter (Daddy Long Legs), dies at 81
1993-01-28 - Aben Kandel, screenwriter (Dinner at 8), dies of heart failure at 96
1993-03-02 - Paul D Zimmerman, US screenwriter (King of Comedy), dies at 54
1993-03-08 - Wells Root, US screenwriter (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 92
1993-03-12 - Michael Kanin, screenwriter (Woman of the Year), dies at 83
1993-07-10 - Sam Rolfe, American screenwriter (b. 1924)
1993-07-26 - Daniel Fuchs, US, screenwriter (Hard Way), dies at 84
1993-08-10 - Ken England, US screenwriter (Good Girls Go to Paris), dies at 82
1993-08-27 - Bob Verstraete, Dutch actor/screenwriter/director (Alicia), dies at 71
1993-09-19 - Richard Landau, US screenwriter (Back to Bataan), dies at 79
1993-10-14 - Walter Brown Newman, US screenwriter (Cat Ballou), dies at 77
1994-05-08 - Rupert Haselden, journalist/screenwriter, dies at 36
1994-05-31 - Sidney Gilliat, British screenwriter/director, dies at 86
1994-06-17 - Joeri Nagibin, Russian screenwriter (Babje Karstvo), dies at 74
1994-06-22 - Jack Davies, screenwriter, dies at 80
1994-09-23 - Robert Bloch, screenwriter (Psycho), dies of cancer at 77
1994-10-09 - James Hill, English director/screenwriter (Born Free), dies at 75
1995-03-16 - Albert Maurice Hackett, playwright/screenwriter, dies at 95
1995-03-23 - Irving Shulman, author/screenwriter, dies at 81
1995-06-15 - Charles Bennett, screenwriter, dies at 95
1995-07-26 - Eleanore Griffin, screenwriter, dies
1995-08-17 - Howard Koch, screenwriter, dies at 92
1995-10-20 - Jack Rose, screenwriter, dies at 83
1995-11-07 - John Patrick, screenwriter, dies at 90
1996-04-26 - Stirling Silliphant, screenwriter, dies at 78
1996-06-11 - Lonne Elder, playwright/screenwriter, dies at 69
1996-07-01 - Steve Tesich, screenwriter/playwright, dies at 53
1997-10-28 - Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter (b. 1915)
1997-11-05 - James Robert Baker, American novelist, screenwriter (b. 1946)
1999-08-23 - Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (b.1926)
1999-09-23 - Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (b. 1910)
2000-09-03 - Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (b. 1914)
2000-10-31 - Ring Lardner, Jr., American screenwriter (b. 1915)
2000-11-22 - Christian Marquand, French actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1927)
2000-12-30 - Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (b. 1909)
2001-01-15 - Ted Mann, American screenwriter (b. 1916)
2001-02-23 - Robert Enrico, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
2002-05-10 - Yves Robert, French actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1920)
2002-10-04 - André Delvaux, Belgian film director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2002-10-30 - Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2003-01-13 - Norman Panama, American screenwriter and director (b. 1914)
2003-02-22 - Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (b. 1913)
2003-03-04 - Sébastien Japrisot, French author, screenwriter and film director (b. 1931)
Actor Spalding Gray (2004-01-10) 2004-01-10 - Spalding Gray, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1941)
2004-05-31 - Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (b. 1941)
2004-11-11 - Richard Dembo, French director and screenwriter (b. 1948)
2005-03-07 - Debra Hill, American screenwriter and film producer (b. 1950)
2005-07-02 - Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (b. 1915)
2005-07-17 - Gavin Lambert, British-born screenwriter (b. 1924)
2005-11-01 - Michael Piller, American screenwriter (b. 1948)
2006-09-09 - Gérard Brach, French screenwriter (b. 1927)
2007-01-01 - A. I. Bezzerides, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1908)
2007-01-30 - Sidney Sheldon, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
2007-05-02 - Brad McGann, New Zealand film director and screenwriter (b. 1964)
2007-08-08 - Melville Shavelson, American film director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
2007-11-01 - S. Ali Raza, Bollywood Screenwriter (b. 1922)
2007-11-04 - Peter Viertel, German-American author and screenwriter (b. 1920)
2008-02-12 - Oscar Brodney, American screenwriter (b. 1907)
Novelist Sidney Sheldon (2007-01-30) 2008-03-25 - Rafael Azcona, Spanish screenwriter (b. 1926)
2008-05-26 - Sydney Pollack, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1934)
2009-01-16 - John Mortimer, British barrister, screenwriter and author. (b. 1923)
2009-03-04 - Horton Foote, American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Academy Award-winning screenwriter (b. 1916)
2009-06-28 - A. K. Lohithadas, Indian screenwriter, director, and producer (b. 1955)
2009-07-31 - Harry Alan Towers, English film producer and screenwriter (b. 1920)
2009-08-04 - Blake Snyder, American screenwriter (b. 1957)
2009-08-05 - Budd Schulberg, American screenwriter and novelist (b. 1914)
2009-09-27 - Ivan Dykhovichnyy, Russian film director and screenwriter (b. 1947)
2009-11-28 - Gilles Carle, Canadian screenwriter and film director (b. 1928)
2009-12-17 - Dan O'Bannon, Screenwriter, after a short illness (b.1943)