Biography
Carl Foreman, CBE (July 23, 1914 – June 26, 1984) was an American screenwriter and film producer who wrote the award-winning films The Bridge on the River Kwai and High Noon, among others. He was one of the screenwriters who were blacklisted in Hollywood in the 1950s because of their suspected communist sympathy or membership in the Communist Party.
He once said his most common theme was "the struggle of the individual against a society that for one reason or another is hostile." He elaborated that "the stories that work best for me involve a loner, out of step or in direct conflict with a group of people." Born in Chicago, Illinois, to a working-class Jewish family, he was the son of Fanny (née Rozin) and Isidore Foreman.He studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. In 1934, at age 19, he quit college to go to Hollywood. "I was mostly on the bum and saw the underside of Hollywood", he later said.He soon returned to Chicago and attended the John J. Marshall School of Law, working at a grocery store to earn money.Foreman dropped out of law school and worked as a newspaper reporter, fiction writer (selling stories to Esquire), press agent, play director and carnival barker. "I was one of the few college trained barkers in the business", he said.Foreman returned to Hollywood in 1938. He worked as a story analyst for several studios and as a film laboratory technician, while continuing to write. He was a member of the Communist Party from 1938 to 1942. "The idea was just in the air", he later said.
Filmography
all 30
Movies 29
Writer 24
Producer 4
TV Shows 1
Creator 1
Director 1
High Noon (2000)
When Time Ran Out... (1980)
The Golden Gate Murders (1979)
Force 10 from Navarone (1978)
Born Free (1974)
Living Free (1972)
Young Winston (1972)
Mackenna's Gold (1969)
Otley (1969)
Born Free (1966)
The Victors (1963)
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
The Key (1958)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
A Hatful of Rain (1957)
The Sleeping Tiger (1954)
High Noon (1952)
Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
The Men (1950)
Young Man with a Horn (1950)
Let's Go to the Movies (1949)
Home of the Brave (1949)
Champion (1949)
The Clay Pigeon (1949)
So This Is New York (1948)
Dakota (1945)
Know Your Enemy: Japan (1945)
Rhythm Parade (1942)
Spooks Run Wild (1941)
Bowery Blitzkrieg (1941)
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1914-07-23
Deathday1984-06-26 (69 years old)
Birth PlaceChicago, United States of America
ChildrenJonathan Foreman, Amanda Foreman
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
ResidencesUnited Kingdom, United Kingdom
Also Known AsCarl Nathan Foreman
AwardsCommander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Valentine Davies Award, Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement
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