Ranald MacDougall
Writer, Director, Producer
March 10, 1915 — December 12, 1973 (58 years)
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.
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.
Known For
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 | The World, the Flesh and the Devil · as Screenplay |
| 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 | Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell · as Screenplay |
| 1950 | |
| 1950 | Bright Leaf · as Screenplay |
| 1950 | |
| 1949 | The Hasty Heart · as Screenplay |
| 1949 | |
| 1948 | The Decision of Christopher Blake · as Screenplay |
| 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 | He Said, She Said · as Self |
| 1968 | Jigsaw · as Screen Story |
| 1966 | Fame Is the Name of the Game · as Teleplay |
| 1950 | The Lux Video Theatre · as Original Screenplay |