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Nunnally Johnson

Writer, Producer, Director, Additional Credits
Died March 27, 1977 (79 years)
Nunnally Hunter Johnson (December 5, 1897 – March 25, 1977) was an American filmmaker who wrote, produced, and directed motion pictures.

Johnson was born in Columbus, Georgia. He began his career as a journalist, writing for the Columbus Enquirer Sun, the Savannah Press, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and the New York Herald Tribune. He also wrote short stories and a collection of these, There Ought To Be a Law, was published in 1930.

Johnson's first connection with film work was the sale of screen rights to one of his stories in 1927. Johnson asked his editor if he could write film criticism articles in 1932. When this request was denied, he decided to relocate to Hollywood and work directly in the film industry.

Quickly finding work as a scriptwriter, Johnson was hired fulltime as a writer by 20th Century-Fox in 1935. He soon began producing films as well and co-founded International Pictures in 1943 with William Goetz. Johnson also directed several films in the 1950s, including two starring Gregory Peck.

Johnson was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Screenplay in 1940 for The Grapes of Wrath and the Directors Guild of America Best Directors Award in 1956 for The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.

Johnson died of pneumonia in Hollywood in 1977 and was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.
Movies & Shows on Plex
  • The Gunfighter
  • The Dark Mirror
  • Flaming Star
  • The Southerner
  • Phone Call from a Stranger
  • The Prisoner of Shark Island
  • Three Came Home
  • The True Story of Jesse James
Known For
  • The Grapes of Wrath
  • How to Marry a Millionaire
  • The Woman in the Window
  • The Gunfighter
  • The Three Faces of Eve
  • The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
  • The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
  • The Dark Mirror
  • Jesse James
  • Phone Call from a Stranger
  • My Cousin Rachel
  • Black Widow
  • Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
  • The Prisoner of Shark Island
  • The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission
  • Along Came Jones
  • We're Not Married!
  • Three Came Home
  • Flaming Star
  • Roxie Hart
  • The World of Henry Orient
  • Witness to Murder
  • Night People
  • Take Her, She's Mine

Filmography

1984
1967
The Dirty Dozen · as Screenplay
1964
The World of Henry Orient · as Screenplay
1963
Take Her, She's Mine · as Screenplay
1962
1960
Flaming Star · as Screenplay
1960
The Angel Wore Red · as Screenplay
1959
1957
The Three Faces of Eve · as Screenplay
1957
Oh, Men! Oh, Women! · as Screenplay
1957
1956
1955
1954
Black Widow · as Screenplay
1954
Night People · as Screenplay
1954
1953
1952
My Cousin Rachel · as Screenplay
1952
We're Not Married! · as Screenplay
1952
1951
1951
The Long Dark Hall · as Screenplay
1950
The Mudlark · as Screenplay
1950
Three Came Home · as Screenplay
1950
1949
1948
1946
1945
1945
1944
The Keys of the Kingdom · as Screenplay
1944
The Woman in the Window · as Screenplay
1944
1943
Holy Matrimony · as Screenplay
1943
1942
1942
The Pied Piper · as Screenplay
1942
Moontide · as Contributing Writer
1942
Roxie Hart · as Screenplay
1941
Tobacco Road · as Screenplay
1940
Chad Hanna · as Screenplay
1940
I Was an Adventuress · as Contributing Writer
1940
The Grapes of Wrath · as Screenplay
1939
Rose of Washington Square · as Screenplay
1939
Wife, Husband and Friend · as Screenplay
1939
Jesse James · as Screenplay
1936
Banjo on My Knee · as Screenplay
1936
1935
Thanks a Million · as Screenplay
1935
1935
1935
Baby Face Harrington · as Screenplay
1934
Kid Millions · as Screenplay
1934
1934
The House of Rothschild · as Screenplay
1934
1933

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