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American screenwriter
Edwin J. Burke
Born (1889-08-30 ) August 30, 1889Albany, New York, USA
Died September 26, 1944(1944-09-26) (aged 55)New York City, New York, USA
Other names Edwin Burke Occupation(s)
screenwriter and playwright Years active 1928-1936
Edwin J. Burke (August 30, 1889 – September 26, 1944) was an American screenwriter who was most known for writing some of
Shirley Temple 's earlier films.
He won an Academy Award at the
5th Academy Awards in the category of
Best Adapted Screenplay for the film
Bad Girl .
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He was also a successful playwright.
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He wrote the play that inspired the film
This Thing Called Love .
Filmography
Only films that he wrote the screenplay for, not ones that were adapted from his plays-unless he helped write the screenplay to it.
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1928–1950
Benjamin Glazer (1928)
Hanns Kräly (1929)
Frances Marion (1930)
Howard Estabrook (1931)
Edwin J. Burke (1932)
Victor Heerman and
Sarah Y. Mason (1933)
Robert Riskin (1934)
Dudley Nichols (1935)
Pierre Collings and
Sheridan Gibney (1936)
Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, and
Norman Reilly Raine (1937)
Ian Dalrymple ,
Cecil Arthur Lewis ,
W. P. Lipscomb , and
George Bernard Shaw (1938)
Sidney Howard (1939)
Donald Ogden Stewart (1940)
Sidney Buchman and
Seton I. Miller (1941)
George Froeschel ,
James Hilton ,
Claudine West , and
Arthur Wimperis (1942)
Philip G. Epstein ,
Julius J. Epstein , and
Howard Koch (1943)
Frank Butler and
Frank Cavett (1944)
Charles Brackett and
Billy Wilder (1945)
Robert Sherwood (1946)
George Seaton (1947)
John Huston (1948)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1949)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950)
1951–1975 1976–2000 2001–present
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