Edmund H. North
Writer, Actor
March 12, 1911 — August 28, 1990 (79 years)
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Edmund Hall North (March 12, 1911 – August 28, 1990), was an American screenwriter who shared an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay with Francis Ford Coppola in 1970 for their script for Patton.
North wrote the screenplay for the 1951 science-fiction classic The Day the Earth Stood Still and is credited for creating the famous line from the film, "Klaatu barada nikto".
He was a son of Bobby North and Stella Maury who performed in vaudeville and the Ziegfeld Follies. 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 former 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, Susan and Bobbie. He lived in Brentwood, California, and was 79 when he died.
Edmund Hall North (March 12, 1911 – August 28, 1990), was an American screenwriter who shared an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay with Francis Ford Coppola in 1970 for their script for Patton.
North wrote the screenplay for the 1951 science-fiction classic The Day the Earth Stood Still and is credited for creating the famous line from the film, "Klaatu barada nikto".
He was a son of Bobby North and Stella Maury who performed in vaudeville and the Ziegfeld Follies. 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 former 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, Susan and Bobbie. He lived in Brentwood, California, and was 79 when he died.
Known For
Filmography
| 2008 | |
| 2008 | The Day the Earth Stopped · as Original Film WriterOn Plex |
| 1979 | Meteor · as Screenplay |
| 1972 | |
| 1970 | Patton · as Screenplay |
| 1964 | |
| 1962 | Damn the Defiant! · as Screenplay |
| 1961 | The Fiercest Heart · as Screenplay |
| 1958 | Cowboy · as Screenplay |
| 1956 | The Proud Ones · as Screenplay |
| 1955 | The Far Horizons · as Screenplay |
| 1954 | Destry · as Screenplay |
| 1952 | |
| 1951 | The Day the Earth Stood Still · as Screenplay |
| 1951 | Only the Valiant · as ScreenplayOn Plex |
| 1950 | |
| 1949 | Colorado Territory · as Screenplay |
| 1947 | Dishonored Lady · as ScreenplayOn Plex |
| 1940 | I'm Still Alive · as Screenplay |
| 1936 | Bunker Bean · as Screenplay |
| 1936 | Murder on a Bridle Path · as Screenplay |
| 1935 | I Dream Too Much · as Screenplay |
| 1934 | One Night of Love · as Screenplay |
| 1980 | Gideon's Trumpet · as Supreme Court Justice |
| 1971 | The 43rd Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 1968 | Submarine X-1 · as Story |
| 1964 | 12 O'Clock High · as Story By |
| 1960 | Insight · as Written By |
| 1960 | Sink the Bismarck! · as Story |
| 1957 | The Lady Takes a Flyer · as Story |
| 1950 | In a Lonely Place · as Adaptation |
| 1949 | Flamingo Road · as Additional Dialogue By |
| 1937 | Shall We Dance · as Contributor To Screenplay Construction |
| 1935 | All the King's Horses · as Adaptation |