Preston Sturges
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1898-08-29 (61 years old)
Deathday
1959-08-06
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also known As
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Preston Sturges
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Preston Sturges (29 August 1898 – 6 August 1959), originally Edmund Preston Biden, was a celebrated playwright, screenwriter and film director born in Chicago, Illinois. In 1941 he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film The Great McGinty. Sturges took the screwball comedy format of the 1930s to another level, writing dialogue that, heard today, is often surprisingly naturalistic, mature, and ahead of its time, despite the farcical situations. In recent years, film scholars such as Alessandro Pirolini have also argued that Sturges' cinema anticipated more experimental narrative...
Acting
1958
as Serge Vitry
1940
as Man at Shoeshine Stand (uncredited)
1942
as Preston Sturges
1990
Production
1941
as Screenplay
1941
as Director
1984
as Original Film Writer
1947
as Director
1947
as Screenplay
1942
as Director
1942
as Screenplay
1948
as Screenplay
1948
as Director
1948
as Producer
1940
as Writer
1940
as Director
1940
as Writer
1944
as Screenplay
1944
as Director
1940
as Screenplay
1940
as Director
1944
as Writer
1944
as Director
1944
as Director
1944
as Producer
1944
as Writer
1941
as Director
1937
as Screenplay
1949
as Director
1939
as Screenplay
1955
as Director
1938
as Writer
1934
as Screenplay
1942
as Director
1935
as Writer
1934
as Adaptation
1942
as Writer
1933
as Theatre Play
1956
as Screenplay
1949
1949
as Producer
1955
as Writer
1930
as Dialogue
1947
as Writer
1937
as Writer
1933
as Writer
1936
as Writer
1941
as Writer
1947
as Producer
1931
as Theatre Play
1935
as Screenplay
1934
as Writer
1938
as Screenplay
1942
as Producer
1933
as Screenplay
1933
as Writer
1958
as Story
1940
as Theatre Play
1944
as Producer
1938
as Screenplay
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