Philip Dunne

PHILIP DUNNE d1992. Hollywood screenwriter, film director and producer who worked prolifically from 1932 until 1965. He spent the majority of his career at 20th Century Fox crafting well regarded romantic and historical dramas, usually adapted from another medium. He was a leading Screen Writers Guild organizer and was politically active during the "Hollywood Blacklist" episode of the 1940s–1950s. He is best known for the films ; How Green Was My Valley (1941) / The Ghost and Mrs Muir (1947) / The Robe (1953) and The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965). He received two Academy Award nominations for screenwriting : How Green Was My Valley (1941) and David and Bathsheba (1951). He also received a Golden Globe nomination for his 1965 screen adaptation of Irving Stone's novel The Agony and the Ecstasy. He died in Malibu aged 84 on June 2nd 1992