Ring Lardner, Jr.
Personal Info
Know For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1915-08-19 (85 years old)
Deathday
2000-10-31
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also known As
Ringgold Wilmer Lardner Jr.
Ring Lardner, Jr.
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" Lardner Jr. (August 19, 1915 – October 31, 2000) was an American journalist and screenwriter blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios during the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s. Ring Lardner Jr. moved to Hollywood where he worked as a publicist and "script doctor" before writing his own material. This included Woman of the Year, a film that won him an Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay in 1942. He also worked on the scripts for the films Laura (1944), Brotherhood of Man (1946), Forever Amber (1947), and M*A*S*H (1970). The script of the latter earned him an Acad...
Acting
1990
2000
1996
as Self
1950
as Self
2001
as Self (Hollywood Ten, arrives, behind Biberman) (archive footage) (uncredited)
2000
as Self
Production
1970
as Screenplay
1965
as Screenplay
1942
as Screenplay
1951
as Screenplay
1946
as Screenplay
1947
as Writer
1943
as Screenplay
1949
as Screenplay
1959
as Writer
1963
as Screenplay
1976
as Original Film Writer
1971
as Additional Writing
1939
as Screenplay
1940
as Writer
1971
as Dialogue
1971
as Screenplay
1977
as Writer
1941
as Adaptation
1944
as Screenplay
1944
as Screenplay
1960
as Writer
1949
as Dialogue
1977
as Additional Writing
1945
as Writer
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