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William Rose (August 31, 1918 – February 10, 1987) was an American screenwriter of British and Hollywood films.[1]

Life and career

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Born in Jefferson City, Missouri, Rose traveled to Canada after the 1939 outbreak of World War II and volunteered to fight with the Black Watch.[2] After being stationed at bases in Scotland and Europe, he returned to live in Britain at war's end to work as a screenwriter, marrying an English woman, Tania Price, with whom he would later collaborate.[3]

Blessed with the ability to adapt to two distinct cultures, William Rose wrote a number of successful British comedies including Genevieve (1953).[3] He became a working associate of the American-born director Alexander Mackendrick notably for his collaboration on The Maggie (US:High and Dry, 1954) and The Ladykillers (1955).[3] He also provided scripts for Hollywood studios, earning several Academy Award nominations for his screenwriting and winning the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967).[4] Rose also won the Writers Guild of America award for Best Written American Comedy for The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966).[5]

In 1973, Rose's lifetime achievements were recognized by the Writers Guild of America with their Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement.[6] In the 1970s, he had a brief relationship with Katharine Hepburn.[7]

William Rose died in 1987 in Jersey, Channel Islands.[8] He is buried in the Churchyard at St. Clement Parish Church, Jersey. William and Tania divorced; she died in 2015 aged 95.[9][10]

Screenwriting awards

Year	Award	Category	Film	Result
1954	Academy Awards	Best Story and Screenplay	Genevieve	Nominated
1957		Best Screenplay – Original	The Ladykillers	Nominated
1966		Best Screenplay – Based on Material from Another Medium	The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming	Nominated
1967		Best Story and Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	Won
1954	British Academy Film Awards	Best British Screenplay	The Maggie	Nominated
1955			The Ladykillers	Won
			Touch and Go	Nominated
1957			The Man in the Sky (Shared with John Eldridge)	Nominated
			The Smallest Show on Earth (Shared with John Eldridge)	Nominated
1968		Best Screenplay	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	Nominated
1964	Edgar Allan Poe Awards	Best Motion Picture Screenplay	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (Shared with Tania Rose)	Nominated
1966	Golden Globe Awards	Best Screenplay	The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming	Nominated
1967			Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	Nominated
1967	Writers Guild of America Awards	Best Written American Comedy	The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming	Won
1968			The Flim-Flam Man	Nominated
		Best Written American Drama	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	Nominated
		Best Written American Original Screenplay		Nominated
1972		Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement	N/A	Honored

Filmography

• Once a Jolly Swagman (1948)
• Esther Waters (1948)
• I'll Get You for This (1950)
• My Daughter Joy (1950)
• Gift Horse (1952)
• Genevieve (1953)
• The Maggie (1954)
• Touch and Go (1955)
• The Ladykillers (1955)
• The Man in the Sky (1957)
• The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963; with Tania Rose)
• The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966)
• The Flim-Flam Man (1967)
• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
• The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969)

Notes

External links

• William Rose at IMDb

На других языках

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- [en] William Rose (screenwriter)

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[ru] Роуз, Уильям

Уильям Артур Роуз (англ. William Arthur Rose; 1914, Джефферсон-Сити — 1987, Джерси) — американский сценарист британских и голливудских фильмов.[3]

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