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Charles Schnee

Writer, Producer, Additional Credits
Born August 6, 1916Died November 29, 1962 (46 years)
Charles Schnee gave up law to become a screenwriter in the mid-1940s, crafting scripts for the classic 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.

Known For

  • Red River
  • The Bad and the Beautiful
  • They Live by Night
  • Somebody Up There Likes Me
  • The Wings of Eagles
  • BUtterfield 8
  • Two Weeks in Another Town
  • Westward the Women
  • The Furies
  • Trial
  • Jeopardy
  • I Walk Alone
  • Born to Be Bad
  • The Crowded Sky
  • Easy Living
  • Until They Sail
  • Scene of the Crime
  • The Prodigal
  • By Love Possessed
  • Torch Song
  • The Next Voice You Hear...
  • Red River
  • When in Rome

Filmography

1988
Red River · as Screenplay
1962
Two Weeks in Another Town · as Screenplay
1961
By Love Possessed · as Screenplay
1960
BUtterfield 8 · as Screenplay
1960
The Crowded Sky · as Screenplay
1952
The Bad and the Beautiful · as Screenplay
1952
1951
Westward the Women · as Screenplay
1951
Bannerline · as Screenplay
1950
1950
1950
The Furies · as Screenplay
1950
Paid in Full · as Screenplay
1949
Scene of the Crime · as Screenplay
1949
Easy Living · as Screenplay
1948
They Live by Night · as Screenplay
1948
Red River · as Screenplay
1947
I Walk Alone · as Screenplay
1946

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