Ranald MacDougall
Writing
Born 1915-03-10
Died 1973-12-12
Schenectady, New York, USA
29 credits
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Ranald MacDougall (March 10, 1915 – December 12, 1973) was an American screenwriter who scripted such films as Mildred Pierce (1945), The Unsuspected (1947), June Bride (1948), and The Naked Jungle (1954), and shared screenwriting credit for 1963's Cleopatra. He also directed a number of films, including 1957's Man on Fire with Bing Crosby and 1959's The World, the Flesh and the Devil, both of which featured actress Inger Stevens.
Born in Schenectady, New York, MacDougall came from an impoverished working-class family. His father was a crane operator and union organizer, whose frequent strikes forced MacDougall to leave school before finishing the eighth grade to help support the family. He held a variety of odd jobs and during the Great Depression found work as an usher at Radio City Music Hall.
He saw greater potential across the street in Rockefeller Center, where he was hired as a page, working alongside Gregory Peck. As a page MacDougall had the opportunity to closely observe the radio industry, and in his spare time he wrote and submitted scripts to his boss under pseudonyms, and was finally hired as a staff writer for NBC Radio despite being underage at the time.
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Filmography
Writing
25 credits
Cleopatra
Mildred Pierce
We're No Angels
The Naked Jungle
June Bride
Dark of the Sun
Objective, Burma!
Possessed
Bright Leaf
The Mountain
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Man on Fire
Queen Bee
Secret of the Incas
Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell
The Unsuspected
Go Naked in the World
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
The Breaking Point
The Hasty Heart
The House in the Square
Fame Is the Name of the Game
That Man Bolt
The Decision of Christopher Blake
Magic Carpet
Directing
6 credits
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Man on Fire
Queen Bee
The Subterraneans
Go Naked in the World
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
Producing
4 credits
Acting
2 credits
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