Biographies: Paul Dehn - Writer

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A British screenwriter, film producer, and librettist, born on November 5, 1912, in Manchester, United Kingdom. He studied at Shrewsbury School and attended Brasenose College, Oxford. He started in 1936 as a film reviewer for several London newspapers. During WWII, Dehn was posted at Camp X in Ontario, Canada. Later on, he wrote plays, operettas, and musicals. He began collaborating with composer James Bernard and also wrote the 1951 short film Waters of Time. He wrote the lyrics for songs in the films The Innocents (1961) and Moulin Rouge (1952). Paul Dehn is known for Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Goldfinger (1964), and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965). He died on September 30, 1976, in the United Kingdom, at the age of 63.