Film story contributor
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A film story contributor is typically a person whose work in another medium (such as a novel or comic book) has been adapted for film; they are not generally the same as the screenwriter.
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Person | Henry V |
William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet...
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| Mahasweta Devi |
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Person | Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa |
Mahasweta Devi (Bengali: Môhashsheta Debi) (born 1926 in Dacca in what is now Bangladesh) is an India social activist and writer. Her only son Nabarun Bhattacharya is also a renowned author in his own right.
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| David Franzoni | Film writer | Gladiator |
David Harold Franzoni (born March 4 1947) is an American screenwriter. His most well known movie scripts include: King Arthur, Gladiator, Amistad, and Jumpin' Jack Flash.
Franzoni has close connections with both DreamWorks Pictures and Steven...
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| James Norman Hall |
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Person | Mutiny on the Bounty |
James Norman Hall (April 22, 1887 – July 5, 1951) was an American author best known for the novel Mutiny on the Bounty.
He was born in Colfax, Iowa, where he attended the local school. Hall graduated from Grinnell College in 1910 and became a...
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| Charles Nordhoff | Person | Mutiny on the Bounty |
Charles Bernard Nordhoff (February 1, 1887 - April 10, 1947) was an English-born American novelist and traveler.
Charles Nordhoff was born in London, England, to American parents. His father was Walter Nordhoff, a wealthy businessman and author of...
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| Thomas Harris |
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Person | The Silence of the Lambs |
Thomas Harris (born April 11, 1940) is an American author of crime novel, most notably The Silence of the Lambs, which was made into a film of the same title starring Jodie Foster as trainee FBI agent Clarice Starling and Anthony Hopkins in an Oscar...
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| Maurine Dallas Watkins | Person | Chicago |
Maurine Dallas Watkins (July 27, 1896 - August 10, 1969) was an American journalist and playwright.
She was born in Louisville, Kentucky and attended Crawfordsville High School, followed by five colleges (including Hamilton College, Transylvania...
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| Charles Dickens |
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Person | Great Expectations |
Charles John Huffam Dickens, FRSA (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870), pen-name "Boz", was one of the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era as well as a vigorous social campaigner.
Critics George Gissing and G. K. Chesterton championed...
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| Deceased Person | Scrooged | |||
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| Clive Cussler | Person | Raise the Titanic |
Clive Eric Cussler (born July 15, 1931 in Aurora, Illinois) is an American adventure novel and marine archaeologist.
Clive Cussler was born in Aurora, Illinois and grew up in Alhambra, California. He was awarded the rank of Eagle Scout when he was...
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| George MacDonald |
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Person | The Princess and the Goblin |
George MacDonald (10 December 1824 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister.
Though no longer well known, his works (particularly his fairy tale and fantasy novels) have inspired admiration in such notables as W. H....
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| Jules Verne |
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Person | Mysterious Island |
Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8 1828 – March 24 1905) was a French author who pioneered the science-fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Journey to the Center of the Earth (written in 1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (written...
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| Film writer | Le Voyage dans la Lune | |||
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| Henry James |
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Person | Daisy Miller |
Henry James ( – ), son of theologian Henry James Sr., brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an American-born British author. He is one of the founders and leaders of a school of realism in fiction;...
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| Ellen Wood | Person | East Lynne |
Mrs. Ellen Wood (née Price) (January 17, 1814 – February 10, 1887), was an English novelist, better known as "Mrs. Henry Wood".
She was born at Worcester. She wrote over 30 novels, many of which (especially East Lynne), enjoyed remarkable...
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| Edward E. Rose | The Prisoner of Zenda | |||
| Frank Norris |
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Person | Greed |
Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. (March 5 1870 – October 25 1902) was an American novelist, during the Progressive Era, writing predominantly in the naturalist genre. His notable works include McTeague (1899), The Octopus: A California Story (1901),...
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| Stefan Wul | Person | Fantastic Planet |
Stefan Wul was the nom de plume of French science fiction writer Pierre Pairault (27 March 1922–26 November 2003). He was a dental surgeon, but science fiction was his real passion. Most of his books reflect that, showing a deep knowledge of...
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| Gordy Hoffman | Person | Love Liza |
Gordy Hoffman (c. 1965) is a US writer and director.
Gordy is the older brother of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, and the son of Marilyn O'Connor, a judge in Rochester, New York. He wrote the film Love Liza, in which his brother starred.
Gordy...
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| Don Roos | Person | Love Field |
Don Roos is a screenwriter and film director.
Donald Paul Roos was born on April 14, 1955 in New York, USA. Roos attended the University of Notre Dame, in Indiana. After graduating, Roos moved to Los Angeles, where he pursued a career writing for...
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| Jan Sardi | Film writer | Love's Brother | ||
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| Adrian Fulle | Person | Love 101 |
Adrian Fulle is an American filmmaker best known for the comedy Love 101. He was born April 25, 1972 in Des Plaines, Illinois and graduated with honors from Columbia College in Chicago in 1995 with a BA in Film & Television. After college Adrian...
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| Jules Chancel | The Love Parade | |||
| Leon Xanrof |
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Person | The Love Parade |
Leon Xanrof (1867-1953) was a French playwright and songwriter, noted for writing the play The Prince Consort, which was used to create the 1929 film Parade d'amour (The Love Parade).
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| Bruce Feirstein | Person | Tomorrow Never Dies |
Bruce Feirstein (born 1956) is a screenwriter and humorist best known for his contributions to the James Bond series, and his best selling humor books, including Real Men Don't Eat Quiche, and Nice Guys Sleep Alone. Real Men Don't Eat Quiche was on...
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| Yash Chopra | Film director |
Yash Rāj Chopra (Hindi: यश चोपड़ा, born 27 September 1932) is a writer, director, and producer of Bollywood movies in India. Waqt, Deewār, Lamhe, Darr, Dil To Pagal Hai, and Veer-Zaara are some of the highly successful movies which Yash Chopra...
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| Frank Wead |
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Person | Test Pilot |
Frank Wilber "Spig" Wead (October 24, 1895 in Illinois - November 15, 1947) U.S. Navy aviator turned screenwriter who helped promote United States Naval aviation from its inception through World War II.
A 1917 graduate of the United States Naval...
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| Ben Garant |
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Robert Ben Garant (alternately billed as Ben Garant) (born 14 September, 1970) is an American actor, comedian, producer, director, and writer.
Garant was born in Cookeville, Tennessee, and grew up in Farragut, Tennessee. He has lived in New York...
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| Thomas Lennon |
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Thomas Lennon III (9 August, 1970) is an American actor, comedian, and writer.
He is a native of Oak Park, Illinois, U.S., and a 1988 graduate of Oak Park River Forest High School. Lennon is married to actress Jenny Robertson.
Lennon originally...
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| James Bradley |
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Person | Flags of Our Fathers |
James Bradley (March 1693 – July 13, 1762) was an English astronomer, Astronomer Royal from 1742. He is best known for discovering the aberration of light while attempting to detect stellar parallax.
Bradley was born at Sherborne, near Cheltenham...
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| Paul Haggis |
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Paul Edward Haggis (born March 10, 1953 in London, Ontario) is an Academy Award-winning Canadian screenwriter, producer and film director who spent his early career in the television field writing, producing and directing various American and...
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| Ron Powers | Flags of Our Fathers | |||
