George Bruce (writer)

George Bruce (15 September 1898 – 6 September 1974) was an American writer, best known for his screenplays for film and television. He started writing when nine years old and began writing professionally for magazines in 1920. Bruce was a hugely prolific and popular writer of books and stories for pulp magazines.^[1] At one stage he was earning $50,000 a year from the pulps.^[2]

Bruce started writing screenplays in the mid-1930s when he sold stories to Hollywood. He was a regular writer for producer Edward Small, particularly of swashbucklers.^[3][4]

Quentin Tarantino called him "a terrific screenwriter".^[5]

He was married to actress Inez Torrens.^[3]

Select films

• Navy Blue and Gold (1937) - writer, original story
• The Crowd Roars (1938) - writer, original story
• The Duke of West Point (1938) - writer
• King of the Turf (1939) - writer
• The Man in the Iron Mask (1939) - writer
• The Son of Monte Cristo (1940) - writer
• Kit Carson (1940) - writer
• South of Pago Pago (1940) - writer
• The Corsican Brothers (1941) - writer
• Miss Annie Rooney (1942) - writer
• Stand by for Action (1942) - writer
• Salute to the Marines (1943) - writer
• Two Years Before the Mast (1946) - writer
• Killer McCoy (1947) - writer
• Walk a Crooked Mile (1948) - writer
• Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950) - writer
• Kansas City Confidential (1952) - writer