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American screenwriter
Edmund Hall North (March 12, 1911 – August 28, 1990) was an American
screenwriter who shared an
Oscar for
Best Original Screenplay with
Francis Ford Coppola in 1970 for their script for
Patton .
[1]
[2]
[3]
North wrote the screenplay for the 1951 science-fiction classic
The Day the Earth Stood Still and is credited with creating the famous line from the film, "
Klaatu barada nikto ".
[4]
He was a son of
Bobby North and Stella Maury who performed in
vaudeville and the
Ziegfeld Follies .
[1] North began writing plays while attending
Culver Military Academy in
Indiana and at
Stanford University . As a
major in the
U.S. Army
Signal Corps during
World War II , he made training and educational films.
North was a president of the screen branch of the
Writers Guild of America in which he served on more than 40 committees, including the contract-bargaining panel.
North and his wife, Collette had two daughters. He lived in
Brentwood, Los Angeles , and was 79 when he died.
Credits (alone or in collaboration)
References
^
a
b Oliver, Myrna (August 30, 1990).
"Edmund H. North; Shared Oscar for 'Patton' Screenplay" .
Los Angeles Times . Retrieved April 13, 2021 .
^ Suid, Lawrence H. (2002). Guts and Glory: The Making of the American Military Image in Film .
University Press of Kentucky pg. 267.
ISBN
978-0-8131-9018-1 .
^ Dale, Wanda (February 4, 1970).
" 'Patton' is a magnificent monument to a hero" .
New York Daily News . Retrieved April 13, 2021 .
^
Shermer, Michael (December 11, 2008).
"Reel Life: The Day the Earth Stood Still " .
Scientific American . Retrieved April 13, 2021 .
Awards for Edmund H. North
1940–1975
Preston Sturges (1940)
Herman J. Mankiewicz and
Orson Welles (1941)
Michael Kanin and
Ring Lardner Jr. (1942)
Norman Krasna (1943)
Lamar Trotti (1944)
Richard Schweizer (1945)
Muriel Box and
Sydney Box (1946)
Sidney Sheldon (1947)
No award (1948)
Robert Pirosh (1949)
Charles Brackett ,
D. M. Marshman Jr. , and
Billy Wilder (1950)
Alan Jay Lerner (1951)
T. E. B. Clarke (1952)
Charles Brackett ,
Richard L. Breen , and
Walter Reisch (1953)
Budd Schulberg (1954)
Sonya Levien and
William Ludwig (1955)
Albert Lamorisse (1956)
George Wells (1957)
Nathan E. Douglas and
Harold Jacob Smith (1958)
Clarence Greene ,
Maurice Richlin ,
Russell Rouse , and
Stanley Shapiro (1959)
I. A. L. Diamond and
Billy Wilder (1960)
William Inge (1961)
Ennio de Concini ,
Pietro Germi , and
Alfredo Giannetti (1962)
James Webb (1963)
S. H. Barnett,
Peter Stone and
Frank Tarloff (1964)
Frederic Raphael (1965)
Claude Lelouch and
Pierre Uytterhoeven (1966)
William Rose (1967)
Mel Brooks (1968)
William Goldman (1969)
Francis Ford Coppola and
Edmund H. North (1970)
Paddy Chayefsky (1971)
Jeremy Larner (1972)
David S. Ward (1973)
Robert Towne (1974)
Frank Pierson (1975)
1976–2000 2001–present
Original Drama (1969–1983) Original Comedy (1969–1983) Original Screenplay (1984–present)
1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s
International National Other