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American film director and screenwriter (1918–1967)
Richard L. Breen |
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Born | (1918-06-26)June 26, 1918
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Died | February 1, 1967(1967-02-01) (aged 48)
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Nationality | American |
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Occupation(s) |
Writer,
Screenwriter,
Director |
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Years active | 1948–1967 |
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Richard L. Breen (June 26, 1918 – February 1, 1967) was a
Hollywood screenwriter and director.
Biography
Breen was born in
Chicago of
Irish Catholic extraction. He began as a freelance radio writer. After a stint in the
U.S. Navy during
World War II, he began writing for films. He won an
Oscar for his work on the
screenplay to
Titanic (1953), and was nominated for
A Foreign Affair (1948) and
Captain Newman, M.D. (1963). In 1957, he directed one film
Stopover Tokyo, and then returned to screenwriting. He was president of the
Screenwriters' Guild from 1952 to 1953.[
citation needed]
Filmography
References
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1940–1975 |
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Preston Sturges (1940)
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Herman J. Mankiewicz and
Orson Welles (1941)
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Michael Kanin and
Ring Lardner Jr. (1942)
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Norman Krasna (1943)
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Lamar Trotti (1944)
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Richard Schweizer (1945)
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Muriel Box and
Sydney Box (1946)
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Sidney Sheldon (1947)
- No award (1948)
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Robert Pirosh (1949)
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Charles Brackett,
D. M. Marshman Jr., and
Billy Wilder (1950)
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Alan Jay Lerner (1951)
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T. E. B. Clarke (1952)
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Charles Brackett,
Richard L. Breen, and
Walter Reisch (1953)
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Budd Schulberg (1954)
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Sonya Levien and
William Ludwig (1955)
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Albert Lamorisse (1956)
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George Wells (1957)
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Nathan E. Douglas and
Harold Jacob Smith (1958)
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Clarence Greene,
Maurice Richlin,
Russell Rouse, and
Stanley Shapiro (1959)
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I. A. L. Diamond and
Billy Wilder (1960)
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William Inge (1961)
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Ennio de Concini,
Pietro Germi, and
Alfredo Giannetti (1962)
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James Webb (1963)
- S. H. Barnett,
Peter Stone and
Frank Tarloff (1964)
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Frederic Raphael (1965)
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Claude Lelouch and
Pierre Uytterhoeven (1966)
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William Rose (1967)
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Mel Brooks (1968)
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William Goldman (1969)
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Francis Ford Coppola and
Edmund H. North (1970)
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Paddy Chayefsky (1971)
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Jeremy Larner (1972)
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David S. Ward (1973)
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Robert Towne (1974)
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Frank Pierson (1975)
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