Biography
Talbot Lanham Jennings (August 25, 1894 β May 30, 1985) was an American playwright and screenwriter. He received two Academy Award nominations for co-writing the screenplays for Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Anna and the King of Siam (1946). He was born in 1894 in Shoshone, Idaho, his father was an Episcopal archdeacon for Idaho and Wyoming. He attended Nampa High School before World War I in which he saw active service as an artilleryman in the U.S. Army, where he fought in five major battles.After to war he went to University of Idaho and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1924. He was president of the Associated Students and wrote Light on the Mountains, a state history set to music. He also edited the yearbook, Gem of the Mountains, and the Blue Bucket, the English Department literary publication.
Jennings did a master's degree at Harvard University, then attended Yale Drama School.Talbot wrote and co-wrote 17 screenplays including Mutiny on the Bounty, Romeo and Juliet, Anna and the King of Siam, Knights of the Round Table, The Good Earth and Northwest Passage. He wrote many screenplays for television also. A story he wrote became The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), and was his last film.
In the 1940 B-movie The Devil's Pipeline, Richard Arlen and Andy Devine play characters named Talbot and Jennings, apparently an inside joke by one of its writers.
He died at East Glacier Park, Montana.
Filmography
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Movies 23
Writer 23
The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
The Naked Maja (1958)
Gunsight Ridge (1957)
Pearl of the South Pacific (1955)
Escape to Burma (1955)
Untamed (1955)
Knights of the Round Table (1953)
Scaramouche (1952)
Across the Wide Missouri (1951)
The Black Rose (1950)
Landfall (1949)
Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
Frenchman's Creek (1944)
Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)
So Ends Our Night (1941)
Edison, the Man (1940)
Northwest Passage (1940)
Rulers of the Sea (1939)
Spawn of the North (1938)
Conquest (1937)
The Good Earth (1937)
Romeo and Juliet (1936)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
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GenderMale
Birthday1894-08-24
Deathday1985-05-30 (90 years old)
Birth PlaceShoshone, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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