Dudley Nichols
Writing
Awards
Won 1 Academy Award
Academy Awards 1 won
- 1936 Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Won The Informer
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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.
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Filmography
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Writing
57 credits
Stagecoach
Bringing Up Baby
The Tin Star
Pinky
Scarlet Street
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Prince Valiant
And Then There Were None
The Long Voyage Home
The Big Sky
Stagecoach
Mary of Scotland
Man Hunt
Swamp Water
The Bells of St. Mary's
Air Force
The Informer
This Land Is Mine
The Lost Patrol
Mystery Woman
Rawhide
The Hangman
Ten Little Indians
The Fugitive
Government Girl
The Hurricane
Bataan
The Battle of Midway
Sister Kenny
The Crusades
Carefree
The 400 Million
Run for the Sun
It Happened Tomorrow
The Toast of New York
Hot Pepper
Men Without Women
Skyline
Heller in Pink Tights
The Plough and the Stars
Life Begins at Forty
The Three Musketeers
Judge Priest
Escape from Zahrain
Born Reckless
The Arizonian
Hold That Girl
Steamboat Round the Bend
Call It Luck
A Devil with Women
This Sporting Age
You Can't Buy Everything
One Mad Kiss
Seas Beneath
The Marshal Of Mesa City
On the Level
Three Rogues
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