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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. more

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William Shakespeare William Shakespeare Topic Henry V  
William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – 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 and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poem, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those...
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Mahasweta Devi Mahasweta Devi at a reading in New Delhi Topic 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. Mahasweta Devi was born in 1926 in Dhaka, to literary parents. Her father Manish Ghatak was a poet and a novelist and elder brother of noted filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak, and her mother Dharitri Devi was also a writer and a social worker. Her first schooling was in Dhaka, but after the...
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David Franzoni   Topic Gladiator  
David Harold Franzoni (b. 4 March 1947) is an American screenwriter. His most well known movie scripts include: King Arthur, Gladiator, Amistad, and Jumpin' Jack Flash. Franzoni, DavidFranzoni, DavidFranzoni, DavidFranzoni has close connections with both DreamWorks Pictures and Steven Spielberg. When he graduated from the University of Vermont in the 1970's he took a motorcycle trip across the world, going from New York, to Europe to the MIddle East, South Asia, Australia, and South America....
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James Norman Hall 99-42515q Topic 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 social worker in Boston, Massachusetts, while trying to establish himself as a writer and studying for a Master's degree from Harvard University. Hall was on vacation in the United Kingdom in the summer of 1914, when World War I began. Posing as a...
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Charles Nordhoff   Topic Mutiny on the Bounty  
Charles Bernard Nordhoff (February 1, 1887 - April 11, 1947) was an English-born American novelist and traveler. He often collaborated with James Norman Hall.'''He was the author with Hall of the Bounty trilogy, The Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea and Pitcairn's Island, among others. The Nordhoff-Hall book was the source for the 1935 movie of the same name as well as two later versions. Subsequent authors have published a different, well-researched view of the actual events of the...
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Thomas Harris Topic 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-winning portrayal of serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter. As of 2008, Harris has published four novels featuring Lecter. All of his books have been adapted for the screen, with five films featuring his Lecter character. (Red Dragon has been adapted...
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Maurine Dallas Watkins   Topic 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 several colleges, including Hamilton College, Transylvania University, and Radcliffe College. After college, she took a job as a reporter with the Chicago Tribune. She covered two 1924 murders and the subsequent trials of Belva Gaertner, a twice-divorced cabaret singer, and Beulah Sheriff Annan. Watkins...
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Charles Dickens Charles Dickens is still one of the best known English writers of any era Topic Great Expectations  
Charles John Huffam Dickens, FRSA (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870), pen-name "Boz", was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Considered one of the English language's greatest writers, he was acclaimed for his rich storytelling and memorable characters, and achieved massive worldwide popularity in his lifetime. Later critics, beginning with George Gissing and G. K. Chesterton, championed his mastery of prose, his endless invention of...
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Clive Cussler   Topic 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 14. He attended Pasadena City College for two years and then enlisted in the United States Air Force during the Korean War. During his service in the Air Force he was promoted to Sergeant and worked as an aircraft mechanic and flight engineer for the...
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George MacDonald Topic 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. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Madeleine L'Engle. C. S. Lewis wrote that he regarded MacDonald as his "master". Picking up a copy of Phantastes one day at a train-station bookstall, he began to read: "A few hours later," said Lewis, "I knew that I had...
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Jules Verne Jules Verne. Photo by Félix Nadar Topic 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 in 1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (written in 1873). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before navigable aircraft and practical submarine were invented, and before any means of space travel had been devised. He is the...
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Henry James HenryJamesPhotograph Topic Daisy Miller  
Henry James, OM ( – ), 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; the fine art of his writing has led many academics to consider him the greatest master of the novel and novella form. He spent much of his life in England and became a British subject shortly before his death. He is primarily known for a series of...
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Ellen Wood   Topic 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 popularity. Among the best known of her stories are Danesbury House, Oswald Cray, Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles, The Channings, Lord Oakburn's Daughters and The Shadow of Ashlydyat. For many years, she worked as the proprietor and editor of the Argosy. These...
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Edward E. Rose   Film story contributor The Prisoner of Zenda    
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Frank Norris Topic 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), and The Pit (1903). Although he did not openly support socialism as a political system, his work nevertheless evinces a socialist mentality and influenced socialist/progressive writers such as Upton Sinclair. Like many of his contemporaries, he was...
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Stefan Wul   Topic La Planète Sauvage  
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 scientific data. Pairault retired from dental surgery in 1989, but remained active in the French science fiction scene. He published eleven novels between 1956 and 1959 and a twelfth in 1977. Only one, Le Temple du Passé (1957), was translated into English...
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Gordy Hoffman   Topic 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 Hoffman is the founder of the BlueCat Screenplay Competition -- widely considered one of the best screenplay competitions for finding and fostering undiscovered writing talent. The winning screenplay from the 2005 competition was purchased by...
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Don Roos   Topic 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 television. Roos supported himself by working as a word processor, and to this day jokes that he has that as a fall-back plan. Roos began his writing career when he had a friend of his impersonate an agent and represent him; a phone call led to a job...
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Jan Sardi   Topic Love's Brother    
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Adrian Fulle   Topic 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 trained at Chicago's The Second City comedy improv theater and went on to write/direct/produce award winning feature films, shorts and music videos.
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Jules Chancel   Film story contributor The Love Parade    
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Leon Xanrof Léon Xanrof Topic 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   Topic Tomorrow Never Dies  
Bruce Feirstein (b. 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 the New York Times best seller list for 53 weeks. Feirstein was born in Maplewood, New Jersey. He attended Boston University where he served as the editor for the student newspaper, The Daily Free Press. After graduation, he worked as an advertising...
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Yash Chopra   Topic    
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, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Dil To Pagal Hai, and Veer-Zaara are some of the highly successful movies which Yash Chopra directed. He is founder of Yash Raj Films. Yash Choprā was born in Lahore (now in Pakistan) in a Punjābi family on September 17, 1932. He was the youngest of the eight children of Vilāyati Rāj Choprā. Yash initially worked...
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Frank Wead Frank Wead Topic 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 Academy, Frank "Spig" Wead began to promote Naval Aviation after World War I through air racing and speed competitions. This competition, mainly against the United States Army (and its leader Jimmy Doolittle), helped push U.S. military aviation...
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Ben Garant Garant as Dept. Travis Junior Topic    
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 City and lives with his wife Jennifer in Glendale, California. He is the co-creator of and writer for the television series Reno 911! in which he also plays the role of Deputy Travis Junior. He spent the early part of his career working with the comedy...
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Thomas Lennon Thomas Lennon Topic    
Thomas Lennon III (9 August, 1970) is an American actor, comedian, and writer. Lennon 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 met Kerri Kenney, fellow member of The State and Reno 911!, at age sixteen in theater camp. After graduation, Lennon attended New York University (NYU). Thereafter he joined a sketch comedy group called The New Group, the core members of which were...
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