Philip Dunne

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1908-02-11 (84 years old)

Deathday

1992-06-02

Place of Birth

New Rochelle, New York, USA

Philip Dunne

Biography

Philip Ives Dunne (February 11, 1908 – June 2, 1992) was an American screenwriter, film director and producer, who worked prolifically from 1932 until 1965. He spent the majority of his career at 20th Century Fox. He crafted well regarded romantic and historical dramas, usually adapted from another medium. Dunne was a leading Screen Writers Guild organizer and was politically active during the "Hollywood Blacklist" episode of the 1940s–1950s. He is best known for the films How Green Was My Valley (1941), The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), The Robe (1953) and The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965).[1] Dunne received two Academy Award nominations for s...

Production

1936

1954

The Egyptian

as Screenplay

1948

Escape

as Writer

1953

The Robe

as Screenplay

1951

1941

1949

Pinky

as Screenplay

1940

Johnny Apollo

as Screenplay

1951

Anne of the Indies

as Screenplay

1947

Forever Amber

as Writer

1958

1939

The Rains Came

as Screenplay

1958

In Love and War

as Director

1956

Hilda Crane

as Director

1956

Hilda Crane

as Screenplay

1948

1959

Blue Denim

as Screenplay

1959

Blue Denim

as Director

1955

1955

1962

The Inspector

as Director

1966

Blindfold

as Director

1992

1956

Three Brave Men

as Director

1947

1958

Ten North Frederick

as Screenplay

1937

Lancer Spy

as Writer

1952

Lydia Bailey

as Writer

1952

Way of a Gaucho

as Screenplay

1939

1939

Swanee River

as Screenplay

1961

1965

1965

1944

A Salute to France

as Screenplay

1952

Way of a Gaucho

as Producer

1947

Kiss of Death

as Additional Writing

1934

Student Tour

as Writer

1966

Blindfold

as Screenplay

1938

Suez

as Screenplay

1937

1956

1932

Me and My Gal

as Additional Writing

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