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Philip Dunne

Writer, Director, Producer, Additional Credits
Born February 11, 1908Died June 2, 1992 (84 years)
Philip Ives Dunne (February 11, 1908 – June 2, 1992) was an American screenwriter, film director and producer, who worked prolifically from 1932 until 1965. He spent the majority of his career at 20th Century Fox. He crafted well regarded romantic and historical dramas, usually adapted from another medium. Dunne was a leading Screen Writers Guild organizer and was politically active during the "Hollywood Blacklist" episode of the 1940s–1950s. He is best known for the films How Green Was My Valley (1941), The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), The Robe (1953) and The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965).[1]

Dunne received two Academy Award nominations for screenwriting: How Green Was My Valley (1941) and David and Bathsheba (1951). He also received a Golden Globe nomination for his 1965 screen adaptation of Irving Stone's novel The Agony and the Ecstasy, as well as several peer awards from the Writers Guild of America (WGA), including the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement.

Many notable directors worked with Dunne's screenplays, including Carol Reed, John Ford, Jacques Tourneur, Elia Kazan, Otto Preminger, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and Michael Curtiz, among others.
Movies & Shows on Plex
  • Kiss of Death
  • The Last of the Mohicans
Known For
  • How Green Was My Valley
  • The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
  • The Robe
  • The Agony and the Ecstasy
  • The Egyptian
  • David and Bathsheba
  • Kiss of Death
  • The Rains Came
  • Wild in the Country
  • Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
  • The Last of the Mohicans
  • The Count of Monte Cristo
  • Stanley and Livingstone
  • Johnny Apollo
  • Anne of the Indies
  • The Luck of the Irish
  • Pinky
  • Blindfold
  • Forever Amber
  • In Love and War
  • Suez

Filmography

1992
The Last of the Mohicans · as Screenplay
1966
Blindfold · as Screenplay
1959
Blue Denim · as Screenplay
1958
Ten North Frederick · as Screenplay
1956
1956
Hilda Crane · as Screenplay
1955
1954
The Egyptian · as Screenplay
1954
1953
The Robe · as Screenplay
1952
Way of a Gaucho · as Screenplay
1952
1951
Anne of the Indies · as Screenplay
1951
1949
Pinky · as Screenplay
1948
The Luck of the Irish · as Screenplay
1948
1947
1947
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir · as Screenplay
1947
1942
1941
How Green Was My Valley · as Screenplay
1940
Johnny Apollo · as Screenplay
1939
Swanee River · as Screenplay
1939
The Rains Came · as Screenplay
1939
Stanley and Livingstone · as Screenplay
1938
Suez · as Screenplay
1937
1936
1936
King of Burlesque · as Contributing Writer
1935
Magnificent Obsession · as Contributing Writer
1934
1934
1932

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