Anthony Veiller

Known for WritingBorn 1903-06-23Died 1965-06-27New York, New York, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Anthony Veiller (23 June 1903 – 27 June 1965) was an American screenwriter and film producer. The son of the screenwriter Bayard Veiller and the English actress Margaret Wycherly, Anthony Veiller wrote for 41 films between 1934 and 1964. He was born on 23 June 1903 in New York City to Bayard Veiller and Margaret Wycherly. He moved to Hollywood in 1930. Veiller was twice nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. In 1937, he co-wrote (with Morrie Ryskind) the screenplay for Stage Door, starring Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers and Adolphe Menjou. This very loose adaptation of the play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Veiller was also Oscar-nominated for writing (with uncredited help from John Huston and Richard Brooks) The Killers (1946), an adaptation of the short story by Ernest Hemingway. This seminal example of film noir, which introduced Burt Lancaster to filmgoers, won an Edgar Award as best mystery film of 1946, and in 2008 was enshrined in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Veiller frequently worked with top directors. During the Second World War he worked with Frank Capra on several films in the documentary/propaganda film series collectively titled Why We Fight. In 1946 (the same year as The Killers), Veiller co-wrote The Stranger, directed by and starring Orson Welles. For State of the Union (1948), again directed by Capra, Veiller was credited as co-producer as well as co-writer. Veiller worked with director John Huston on several films: Moulin Rouge (1952), Beat the Devil (1953), The List of Adrian Messenger (1963), and The Night of the Iguana (1964), the film of the Tennessee Williams play that became Veiller's final screen credit. Veiller died on 27 June 1965 of cancer, in Hollywood, California. He was buried in the St Mary Churchyard, Bepton, Chichester, West Sussex, England as was his mother.Read more

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Victory

New York Town

Radio City Revels

Along the Great Divide

The Killers

The Night of the Iguana

The Soldier and the Lady

The Stranger

Fort Worth

Assignment in Brittany

Stage Door

Colorado Territory

Here Is Germany

Attack! The Battle for New Britain

Disputed Passage

Monkey on My Back

The List of Adrian Messenger

On the Trail of the Iguana

Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia

Seven Keys to Baldpate

State of the Union

Force of Arms

Why We Fight: The Battle of China

Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain

Let Us Live

Moulin Rouge

That Lady

Typhoon

Solomon and Sheba

The Notorious Sophie Lang

Dallas

The Saint in New York

Safari

Chain Lightning

The Witching Hour

The Lady Consents

Menace

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

Backfire

Winterset

Your Job in Germany

Star of Midnight

Safari

A Woman Rebels

Moon Over Burma

Break of Hearts

Red Planet Mars

Timbuktu