Dudley Nichols Biography (1895-1960)

Born April 6, 1895, in Wapakoneta, OH; died of cancer, January 4, 1960, in Hollywood, CA; son of Dr. Grant Byron and Mary Nichols; married Esta Vacez Gooch-Collins, 1924. Career: Screenwriter, director, producer and lyricist. Ship's radio operator on Great Lakes, 1913; New York Evening News and New York World, journalist, 1920-29; also a freelance writer. Military service: United States Navy, 1918-19 (devised an electronic deviceto protect minesweepers). Member: Screenwriters Guild (past president). Awards, Honors: Academy Award and Venice Film Festival Prize, best writing--screenplay, 1935, for The Informer; Academy Award nomination,best writing--screenplay, 1940, for The Long Voyage Home; Academy Award nomination, best original screenplay, 1943, for Air Force; Writers Guild Laurel Award, 1953; Academy Award nomination, best writing--story and screenplay written directly for the screen, 1957, for The Tin Star..

Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupation: Screenwriter, director, producer, lyricist
Birth Details: April 6, 1895; Wapakoneta, Ohio, United States
Death Details: January 4, 1960; Hollywood, California, United States

Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Producer, Unless Otherwise Noted
And director, Government Girl, RKO Radio Pictures, 1943
This Land is Mine, RKO Radio Pictures, 1943
And director, Sister Kenny, RKO Radio Pictures, 1946
And director, Mourning Becomes Electra, RKO Radio Pictures, 1947
WRITINGS
Screenplays
Men Without Woman, Fox Film Corporation, 1930
On the Level, Fox Film Corporation, 1930
Born Reckless, Fox Film Corporation, 1930
Adaptation and dialogue, One Mad Kiss, Fox Film Corporation, 1930
A Devil With Women, Fox Film Corporation, 1930
The Seas Beneath, Fox Film Corporation, 1931
Hush Money, Fox Film Corporation, 1931
Skyline, Fox Film Corporation, 1931
Black Camel, Fox Film Corporation, 1931
Three Rogues (also known as Not Exactly Gentlemen), Fox Film Corporation, 1931
This Sporting Age, Columbia, 1932
Robber's Roost, Fox Film Corporation, 1932
Prologue, The Sign of the Cross, Paramount, 1932
Dialogue, Pilgrimage, Fox Film Corporation, 1933
Story writer, Hot Pepper, Fox Film Corporation, 1933
The Man Who Dared, Fox Film Corporation, 1933
El Precio de un beso (also known as Price of a Kiss), 1933
Story writer, You Can't Buy Everything, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1934
Hold That Girl, Fox Film Corporation, 1934
Story writer, Wild Gold, Fox Film Corporation, 1934
Call It Luck, Fox Film Corporation, 1934
Judge Priest, Fox Film Corporation, 1934
The Lost Patrol, RKO Radio Pictures, 1934
(Uncredited) Marie Galante, Fox Film Corporation, 1934
Steamboat 'Round The Bend (also known as Steamboat Bill), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1935
Story writer, Mystery Woman, Fox Film Corporation, 1935

The Informer, RKO Radio Pictures, 1935
The Arizonian, RKO Radio Pictures, 1935
The Crusades, Paramount, 1935
(Uncredited) Life Begins at 40 (also known as Life Begins at Forty), Fox Film Corporation, 1935
The Three Musketeers, RKO Radio Pictures, 1935
Additional dialogue, She, RKO Radio Pictures, 1935
Mary of Scotland, RKO Radio Pictures, 1936
The Plough and the Stars, RKO Radio Pictures, 1936
The Toast of New York, RKO Radio Pictures, 1937
The Hurricane, United Artists, 1937
Bringing Up Baby, RKO Radio Pictures, 1938
Story writer, Carefree, RKO Radio Pictures, 1938
Stagecoach, United Artists, 1939
The 400 Million, 1939
The Long Voyage Home, United Artists, 1940
Man Hunt, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1941
Swamp Water (also known as The Man Who Came Back), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1941
The Battle of the Midway, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1942
This Land Is Mine, RKO Radio Pictures, 1943
Air Force, Warner Bros., 1943
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Paramount, 1943
Story writer, Government Girl, RKO Radio Pictures, 1943
(With Rene Clair and Helene Fraenkel) It Happened Tomorrow, UnitedArtists, 1944
And Then There Were None (also known as Ten Little Indians), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1945
The Bells of St. Mary's, RKO Radio Pictures, 1945
Scarlet Street, Universal, 1946
Sister Kenny, RKO Radio Pictures, 1946
Mourning Becomes Electra, RKO Radio Pictures, 1947
The Fugitive, RKO Radio Pictures, 1948
(With Philip Dunne) Pinky, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1949
Rawhide (also known as Desperate Siege), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1951
Return of the Texan, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1952
The Big Sky, RKO Radio Pictures, 1952
Prince Valiant, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1954
(With Roy Boulting) Run for the Sun, United Artists, 1956
The Tin Star, Paramount, 1957
The Hangman, Paramount, 1959
(With Walter Bernstein) Heller in Pink Tights, Paramount, 1960
Earlier screenplay, Ten Little Indians, 1966
Earlier screenplay, Stagecoach, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966
Film Song Lyrics
Judge Priest, Fox Film Corporation, 1934
Television Writer
Movies
Earlier screenplay, Stagecoach, 1986
Articles
Screen Guild's Magazine, March, 1935; April, 1935
Theatre Arts, December, 1942; October, 1943; April, 1947
Plays
Come Angel Band 46th Street Theater, NYC, 1936

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Books:

International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, Volume 4: Writers and Production Artists, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1993.

Periodicals:

American Screenwriters, 1984.
Avant-Scene, February 1965, .
Cinema, March 1960, .
Film Comment, winter, 1970-71.
Films in Review, February 1971, .
Kino Lehti, no. 6, 1970.
Novels into Film, 1957.*

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