Edmund H. North
Personal Info
Know For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1911-03-12 (79 years old)
Deathday
1990-08-28
Place of Birth
New York, New York, U.S.
Also known As
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Edmund H. North
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. A...
Acting
1980
as Supreme Court Justice
Production
1951
as Screenplay
1970
as Screenplay
1970
as Screenstory
1949
as Screenplay
1952
as Writer
1979
as Screenplay
1979
as Story
1949
as Additional Dialogue
1950
as Writer
1962
as Screenplay
1950
as Adaptation
1960
as Story
1960
as Screenplay
1955
as Screenplay
1968
as Story
1940
as Screenplay
1935
as Screenplay
1958
as Screenplay
1936
as Screenplay
1934
as Screenplay
1936
as Writer
1958
as Story
1951
as Screenplay
1956
as Screenplay
1954
as Screenplay
1947
as Screenplay
1961
as Screenplay
1972
as Writer
1982
as Writer
1982
as Producer
1973
as Writer
2008
as Original Film Writer
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