Ranald MacDougall

Escritor, Director, Productor

10 de marzo de 1915 — 12 de diciembre de 1973 (58 años)
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.

Conocido por

  • Alma en suplicio
    Alma en suplicio1945
  • Cleopatra
    Cleopatra1963
  • Nunca fuimos ángeles
    Nunca fuimos ángeles1989
  • No somos ángeles
    No somos ángeles1955
  • Amor que mata
    Amor que mata1947
  • Objetivo: Birmania
    Objetivo: Birmania1945
  • Punto de ruptura
    Punto de ruptura1950
  • Último tren a Katanga
    Último tren a Katanga1968
  • Pánico en la escena
    Pánico en la escena1950
  • La abeja reina
    La abeja reina1955
  • La montaña siniestra
    La montaña siniestra1956
  • La novia de junio
    La novia de junio1948
  • Sin sombra de sospecha
    Sin sombra de sospecha1947
  • Cuando ruge la marabunta
    Cuando ruge la marabunta1954
  • El secreto de los incas
    El secreto de los incas1954
  • Alma en tinieblas
    Alma en tinieblas1949
  • El rey del tabaco
    El rey del tabaco1950
  • Puente de mando
    Puente de mando1949
  • Los disparatados vaqueros de Calico County
    Los disparatados vaqueros de Calico County1970
  • Hombre de dos mundos
    Hombre de dos mundos1951

Filmography

1989
We're No Angels · as Original Film Writer
1973
That Man Bolt · as Screenplay
1970
1968
Dark of the Sun · as Screenplay
1963
Cleopatra · as Screenplay
1961
Go Naked in the World · as Screenplay
1959
1957
Man on Fire · as Screenplay
1956
The Mountain · as Screenplay
1955
Queen Bee · as Screenplay
1955
We're No Angels · as Screenplay
1954
Secret of the Incas · as Screenplay
1954
The Naked Jungle · as Screenplay
1951
1951
1950
1950
Bright Leaf · as Screenplay
1950
1949
The Hasty Heart · as Screenplay
1949
1948
1948
June Bride · as Screenplay
1947
The Unsuspected · as Screenplay
1947
Possessed · as Screenplay
1945
Mildred Pierce · as Screenplay
1945
Objective, Burma! · as Screenplay

1969

1968
Jigsaw · as Screen Story
1966
1950
The Lux Video Theatre · as Original Screenplay