An American film and stage actor and screenwriter, born in Spokane, Washington, USA. He studied at Dartmouth College in Hanover. He began his career as a theater actor in New York. In the late twenties, he moved to Hollywood to work in cinema as an actor, before turning to...Read more screenwriting in the early forties, and he achieved remarkable success in this field. He was nominated for an Academy Award, as well as a WGA Award, for his screenplay for Johnny Belinda (1948). Among his notable works are Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), The Return of Peter Grimm (1935) and The Face Behind the Mask (1941). He died in California, USA, on November 30, 1979, at age 76.
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An American film and stage actor and screenwriter, born in Spokane, Washington, USA. He studied at Dartmouth College in Hanover. He began his career as a theater actor in New York....Read more In the late twenties, he moved to Hollywood to work in cinema as an actor, before turning to screenwriting in the early forties, and he achieved remarkable success in this field. He was nominated for an Academy Award, as well as a WGA Award, for his screenplay for Johnny Belinda (1948). Among his notable works are Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), The Return of Peter Grimm (1935) and The Face Behind the Mask (1941). He died in California, USA, on November 30, 1979, at age 76.