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Actor
Frank S. Nugent
Writing1908New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Frank Stanley Nugent (May 27, 1908 – December 29, 1965) was an American screenwriter, journalist, and film reviewer. He wrote 21 film scripts, 11 for director John Ford. He wrote almost a thousand reviews for The New York Times before leaving journalism for Hollywood. He was nominated for an Academy Award in 1953 and twice won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Comedy. The Writers Guild of America, West ranks his screenplay for The Searchers (1956) among the top 101 screenplays of all time.
Credits
24- 1971
Mean JusticeWriterMovie - 1966
Incident at Phantom HillScreenplayMovie - 1963
Donovan's ReefScreenplayMovie - 1962EmpireWriter · 1 episodesTV show
- 1961
Two Rode TogetherScreenplayMovie - 1959
North West FrontierScreenplayMovie - 1958
The Last HurrahScreenplayMovie - 1958
Gunman's WalkScreenplayMovie - 1957
The Rising of the MoonScreenplayMovie - 1956
The SearchersScreenplayMovie - 1955
Screen Director's PlayhouseWriter · 1 episodesTV show - 1955
The Tall MenScreenplayMovie
