Biographies: Philip Yordan - Writer

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American playwright, film producer, and screenwriter, born on April 1, 1914 in Chicago, USA to Polish immigrant parents. He is father of actress Phyllis Yordan and actor/dancer Byron Yordan, and grandfather of director-producer Spencer McAndrew. He earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Illinois and a law degree at Kent Law School in Chicago. His first credited work was Syncopation (1942). He won the Academy Award for Best Writing in 1954 for Broken Lance. He died on March 24, 2003 in La Jolla, California, of pancreatic cancer.

• 31 January 2022
• Christina Aziz