Charles Lederer

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1906-12-31 (70 years old)

Deathday

1976-03-05

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Charles Lederer

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Charles Lederer (December 31, 1906 – March 5, 1976) was an American screenwriter and film director. He was born into a prominent theatrical family in New York, and after his parents divorced, was raised in California by his aunt, Marion Davies, mistress to newspaper publisher William Randolf Hearst. A child prodigy, he entered college at age 13, but dropped out after a few years to work as a journalist with Hearst's newspapers. Lederer is recognized for his comic and acerbic adaptations and collaborative screenplays of the 1940s and early 1950s. His screenplays frequently delved into the corrosive influ...

Production

1960

Ocean's Eleven

as Screenplay

1953

1940

His Girl Friday

as Screenplay

1955

Kismet

as Screenplay

1947

Kiss of Death

as Screenplay

1941

Love Crazy

as Screenplay

1940

I Love You Again

as Screenplay

1962

1949

1952

Monkey Business

as Screenplay

1940

Comrade X

as Screenplay

1960

Can-Can

as Screenplay

1942

1962

Follow That Dream

as Screenplay

1957

1947

Ride the Pink Horse

as Screenplay

1937

Double or Nothing

as Screenplay

1943

1939

Broadway Serenade

as Screenplay

1956

Gaby

as Screenplay

1950

Wabash Avenue

as Screenplay

1957

1964

A Global Affair

as Screenplay

1951

On the Loose

as Director

1959

1943

Slightly Dangerous

as Screenplay

1949

1935

Baby Face Harrington

as Additional Dialogue

1952

Fearless Fagan

as Screenplay

1939

Within the Law

as Screenplay

1931

The Front Page

as Additional Dialogue

1933

Topaze

as Sequence Supervisor

2001

Ocean's Eleven

as Original Film Writer

1967

Kismet

as Book

1937

Mountain Music

as Screenplay

1932

1932

Cock of the Air

as Dialogue

1995

Kiss of Death

as Original Film Writer

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