Charles Brackett

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1892-11-26 (77 years old)

Deathday

1969-03-09

Place of Birth

Saratoga Springs, New York, USA

Charles Brackett

Biography

Charles William Brackett (November 26, 1892 – March 9, 1969) was an American novelist, screenwriter, and film producer. He collaborated with Billy Wilder on sixteen films. Brackett was born in Saratoga Springs, New York, the son of Mary Emma Corliss and New York State Senator, lawyer, and banker Edgar Truman Brackett. The family's roots traced back to the arrival of Richard Brackett in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629, near present-day Springfield, Massachusetts. His mother's uncle, George Henry Corliss, built the Centennial Engine that powered the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. A 1915 graduate of Williams College, he earned...

Acting

1950

The Screen Writer

as Self (uncredited)

2014

And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

Production

1950

Sunset Boulevard

as Producer

1950

Sunset Boulevard

as Screenplay

1939

Ninotchka

as Screenplay

1938

1939

Midnight

as Screenplay

1945

The Lost Weekend

as Screenplay

1945

The Lost Weekend

as Producer

1954

Garden of Evil

as Producer

1950

Edge of Doom

as Writer

1941

Ball of Fire

as Screenplay

1943

1948

A Foreign Affair

as Screenplay

1944

The Uninvited

as Producer

1956

The King and I

as Producer

1953

Titanic

as Producer

1953

Titanic

as Screenplay

1941

1953

Niagara

as Writer

1953

Niagara

as Producer

1956

Teenage Rebel

as Writer

1936

1938

1940

Arise, My Love

as Screenplay

1935

1948

1948

1937

1946

1946

To Each His Own

as Screenplay

1948

1936

Rose of the Rancho

as Screenplay

1936

Woman Trap

as Story

1943

Five Graves to Cairo

as Associate Producer

1939

What a Life

as Screenplay

1935

College Scandal

as Screenplay

1960

High Time

as Producer

1955

The Virgin Queen

as Producer

1951

1951

1948

A Foreign Affair

as Producer

1959

Blue Denim

as Producer

1935

Enter Madame

as Writer

1947

The Bishop's Wife

as Additional Writing

1962

State Fair

as Producer

1958

The Gift of Love

as Producer

1946

To Each His Own

as Producer

1935

The Last Outpost

as Adaptation

1957

The Wayward Bus

as Producer

1926

1954

Woman's World

as Producer

1929

Pointed Heels

as Short Story

1958

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