Biography
Charles Schnee (6 August 1916 Bridgeport, Connecticut – 29 November 1962 Beverly Hills, California) was an American screenwriter and film producer. He wrote the scripts for the Westerns Red River (1948) and The Furies (1950), the social melodrama They Live by Night (1949), and the cynical Hollywood saga The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), for which he won an Academy Award.
He worked primarily as a film producer and production executive during the mid-1950s (credits include Until They Sail), but he eventually turned his attention back to scriptwriting. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and graduated from Yale in 1936. He studied law for the next three years and practised law in Massachusetts. He was writing plays and a play Apology had a run in 1943 with Elissa Landi.
Filmography
all 28
Movies 28
Writer 20
Producer 7
Screenplay 1
Red River (1988)
Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
By Love Possessed (1961)
BUtterfield 8 (1960)
The Crowded Sky (1960)
Until They Sail (1957)
House of Numbers (1957)
The Wings of Eagles (1957)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Trial (1955)
The Prodigal (1955)
Jeopardy (1953)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
When in Rome (1952)
Westward the Women (1951)
Bannerline (1951)
Right Cross (1950)
Born to Be Bad (1950)
The Furies (1950)
The Next Voice You Hear... (1950)
Paid in Full (1950)
They Live by Night (1949)
Easy Living (1949)
Scene of the Crime (1949)
Red River (1948)
I Walk Alone (1947)
Cross My Heart (1946)
From This Day Forward (1946)
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1916-08-06
Deathday1963-11-29 (47 years old)
Birth PlaceBridgeport, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
AwardsAcademy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
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