William Rose (screenwriter)
American screenwriter (1918–1987) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
American screenwriter (1918–1987) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Rose (August 31, 1918 – February 10, 1987) was an American screenwriter of British and Hollywood films.[1]
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Born in Jefferson City, Missouri, Rose traveled to Canada after the 1939 outbreak of World War II and volunteered to fight with the Black Watch.[2] After being stationed at bases in Scotland and Europe, he returned to live in Britain at war's end to work as a screenwriter, marrying an English woman, Tania Price, with whom he would later collaborate.[3]
Rose settled in Jersey in the Channel Islands in 1964.[4]
After the couple separated/divorced, Tania returned to live in London in the autumn of 1967. Tania died in 2015 aged 95.[5][6]
In the 1970s, he had a brief relationship with Katharine Hepburn.[7]
He died in Jersey in 1987.[8] He is buried in the Churchyard at St. Clement Parish Church, Jersey.
Blessed with the ability to adapt to two distinct cultures, William Rose wrote a number of successful British comedies including Genevieve (1953).[3] He became a working associate of the American-born director Alexander Mackendrick notably for his collaboration on The Maggie (US:High and Dry, 1954) and The Ladykillers (1955).[3] He also provided scripts for Hollywood studios, earning several Academy Award nominations for his screenwriting and winning the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967).[9] Rose also won the Writers Guild of America award for Best Written American Comedy for The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966).[10]
In 1973, Rose's lifetime achievements were recognized by the Writers Guild of America with their Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement.[11]
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | Once a Jolly Swagman | Jack Lee | Credited with Jack Lee & Cliff Gordon |
| Esther Waters | Ian Dalrymple Peter Proud |
Credited with Michael Gordon & Gerard Tyrrell | |
| 1950 | I'll Get You for This | Joseph M. Newman | Credited with George Callahan |
| My Daughter Joy | Gregory Ratoff | Credited with Robert Thoeren | |
| 1952 | Gift Horse | Compton Bennett | Credited with William Fairchild & Hugh Hastings |
| 1953 | Genevieve | Henry Cornelius | |
| 1954 | The Maggie | Alexander Mackendrick | |
| 1955 | The Ladykillers | ||
| Touch and Go | Michael Truman | ||
| 1957 | The Man in the Sky | Charles Crichton | Credited with John Eldridge |
| The Smallest Show on Earth | Basil Dearden | Credited with John Eldridge | |
| 1963 | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | Stanley Kramer | Credited with Tania Rose |
| 1966 | The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming | Norman Jewison | |
| 1967 | The Flim-Flam Man | Irvin Kershner | |
| Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Stanley Kramer | ||
| 1969 | The Secret of Santa Vittoria |
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