Dudley Nichols

Dudley Nichols
Born(1895-04-06)April 6, 1895
Wapakoneta, Ohio, United States
DiedJanuary 4, 1960(1960-01-04) (aged 64)
Los Angeles, California, United States
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
Occupation(s)Screenwriter, film director

Dudley Nichols (April 6, 1895 – January 4, 1960) was an American screenwriter and film director. He was the first person to decline an Academy Award, as part of a boycott to gain recognition for the Screen Writers Guild; he would later accept his Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1938.

Biography

Dudley Nichols was born April 6, 1895, in Wapakoneta, Ohio. He studied at the University of Michigan where he was active member of the Sigma chapter of Theta Xi fraternity.

After working as a reporter for the New York World, Nichols moved to Hollywood in 1929 and became one of the most highly regarded screenwriters of the 1930s and 1940s. He collaborated on many films over many years with director John Ford, and was also noted for his work with George Cukor, Howard Hawks, Fritz Lang and Jean Renoir.

Nichols wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for films including Bringing Up Baby (1938), Stagecoach (1939), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Scarlet Street (1945), And Then There Were None (1945), The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), Pinky (1949) and The Tin Star (1957).

Nichols initially declined the Academy Award he received for The Informer, due to a dispute between the Screen Writers Guild, of which he was a founder, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He collected the award at the 1938 Oscar ceremony. He served as president of the Screen Writers Guild in 1937 and 1938.

He also co-wrote the documentary The Battle of Midway, which won the 1942 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Nichols produced and directed three films—Government Girl (1943), Sister Kenny (1946) and Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)—for which he also wrote the screenplay.

Awards

In 1954 he received the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement from the Writers Guild of America.

Death

He died in Hollywood of cancer in 1960 and was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

Filmography

Year Title Notes
1930 Men Without Women
1930 Born Reckless
1930 On the Level
1930 One Mad Kiss
1930 A Devil with Women
1931 Not Exactly Gentlemen
1931 Seas Beneath
1931 A Connecticut Yankee
1931 Hush Money
1931 Skyline
1931 Reckless Living
1931 The Black Camel
1932 She Wanted a Millionaire
1932 While Paris Sleeps
1932 This Sporting Age
1933 Robbers Roost
1933 The Man Who Dared
1933 Pilgrimage
1933 Hot Pepper
1934 Frontier Marshal
1934 You Can't Buy Everything
1934 Ever Since Eve
1934 The Lost Patrol
1934 Hold That Girl
1934 Call It Luck
1934 Wild Gold
1934 Grand Canary
1934 Judge Priest
1935 Mystery Woman
1935 Life Begins at 40
1935 The Informer Academy Award, Best Writing, Screenplay (not accepted until 1938)
1935 The Arizonian
1935 She
1935 Steamboat Round the Bend
1935 The Crusades
1935 The Three Musketeers
1936 Mary of Scotland
1937 The Plough and the Stars
1937 The Toast of New York
1937 The Hurricane
1938 Bringing Up Baby
1938 Carefree
1939 Gunga Din
1939 Stagecoach
1939 The 400 Million
1940 The Long Voyage Home Academy Award nominee
1941 Man Hunt
1941 Swamp Water
1942 The Battle of Midway
1943 Air Force Academy Award nominee
1943 This Land Is Mine
1943 Mr. Lucky
1943 For Whom the Bell Tolls
1944 Government Girl Also producer and director
1944 It Happened Tomorrow
1945 And Then There Were None
1945 The Bells of St. Mary's
1945 Scarlet Street
1946 Sister Kenny Also producer and director
1947 The Fugitive
1947 Mourning Becomes Electra Also producer and director
1949 Pinky
1951 Rawhide
1952 Return of the Texan
1952 The Big Sky
1954 Prince Valiant
1956 Run for the Sun
1957 The Tin Star Academy Award nominee
1959 The Hangman
1960 Heller in Pink Tights

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