Edmond Seward

Edmond Seward (26 September 1906 – 12 February 1954) was a Hollywood screenwriter who had originally attended Northwestern University and worked as a journalist, before doing some writing for Disney.^[1]

Edmond Seward
Born	September 26, 1906 Xenia, Ohio, United States
Died	February 12, 1954(1954-02-12) (aged 47) Los Angeles, California, United States
Alma mater	Northwestern University
Occupation	Screenwriter

During the mid-1930s he was brought out to Australia by director Ken G. Hall, to write movies and train Australian screenwriters for Cinesound Productions.^[2][3]

"We hired him at one hundred pounds a week as a writer and he laughed at it, but he said he would like a trip to the South Seas, and he came for one hundred pounds a week and brought his wife", said Hall. "He didn't know all that much as it turned out."^[4]

Seward ended up writing two films for Cinesound, Thoroughbred (1936) and Orphan of the Wilderness (1936)^[5], as well as adapting Thoroughbred into a novel.^[6] He soon returned to Hollywood, with Hall claiming the writer "had not been a bell-ringing success".^[7] Hall thought Seward may have been responsible for plagiarising the end of Thoroughbred from the Frank Capra film, Broadway Bill (1934).^[8]

Seward later worked for Screen Gems and wrote a number of scripts for The Bowery Boys.

Selected filmography

• Walls of Gold (1933)
• Fashions of 1934 (1934) (uncredited)
• Thoroughbred (1936)
• Orphan of the Wilderness (1936)
• The Devil Is Driving (1937) – uncredited
• The Duke Comes Back (1937)
• Gulliver's Travels (1939)
• There's Something About a Soldier (1943) – short
• The Disillusioned Bluebird (1944) – short
• Mutt 'n' Bones (1944) – short
• As the Fly Flies (1944) – short
• In Fast Company (1946)
• Bowery Bombshell (1946)
• Spook Busters (1946)
• Hard Boiled Mahoney (1946)
• News Hounds (1947)
• Bowery Buckaroos (1947)
• Angels' Alley (1948)
• Jinx Money (1948)
• Smugglers' Cove (1948)
• Trouble Makers (1948)
• Fighting Fools (1949)
• Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952) – additional dialogue