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Dudley Nichols (April 6, 1895 – January 4, 1960) was an American screenwriter and film director. He was the first person to decline an Academy Award, as part of a boycott to gain recognition for the Screen Writers Guild; he would later accept his Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1938.

Dudley Nichols
Born	(1895-04-06)April 6, 1895 Wapakoneta, Ohio, United States
Died	January 4, 1960(1960-01-04) (aged 64) Los Angeles, California, United States
Alma mater	University of Michigan
Occupation	Screenwriter, film director

Biography

Dudley Nichols was born April 6, 1895, in Wapakoneta, Ohio.[1] He studied at the University of Michigan where he was active member of the Sigma chapter of Theta Xi fraternity.

After working as a reporter for the New York World, Nichols moved to Hollywood in 1929 and became one of the most highly regarded screenwriters of the 1930s and 1940s. He collaborated on many films over many years with director John Ford, and was also noted for his work with George Cukor, Howard Hawks, Fritz Lang and Jean Renoir.[1]

Nichols wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for films including Bringing Up Baby (1938), Stagecoach (1939), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Scarlet Street (1945), And Then There Were None (1945), The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), Pinky (1949) and The Tin Star (1957).[2]

Nichols initially declined the Academy Award he received for The Informer, due to a dispute between the Screen Writers Guild, of which he was a founder, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[3] He collected the award at the 1938 Oscar ceremony.[4] He served as president of the Screen Writers Guild in 1937 and 1938.

He also co-wrote the documentary The Battle of Midway, which won the 1942 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Nichols produced and directed three films—Government Girl (1943), Sister Kenny (1946) and Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)—for which he also wrote the screenplay.[5][6]

Awards

In 1954 he received the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement from the Writers Guild of America.[7]

Death

He died in Hollywood of cancer in 1960 and was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

Filmography

Year	Title	Notes
1930	Men Without Women	[2]
1930	Born Reckless	[2]
1930	On the Level	[2]
1930	One Mad Kiss	[2]
1930	A Devil with Women	[2]
1931	Not Exactly Gentlemen	[2]
1931	Seas Beneath	[2]
1931	A Connecticut Yankee	[2]
1931	Hush Money	[2]
1931	Skyline	[2]
1931	Reckless Living	[2]
1931	The Black Camel	[2]
1932	She Wanted a Millionaire	[2]
1932	While Paris Sleeps	[2]
1932	This Sporting Age	[2]
1933	Robbers Roost	[2]
1933	The Man Who Dared	[2]
1933	Pilgrimage	[2]
1933	Hot Pepper	[2]
1934	Frontier Marshal	[2]
1934	You Can't Buy Everything	[2]
1934	Ever Since Eve	[2]
1934	The Lost Patrol	[2]
1934	Hold That Girl	[2]
1934	Call It Luck	[2]
1934	Wild Gold	[2]
1934	Grand Canary	[2]
1934	Judge Priest	[2]
1935	Mystery Woman	[2]
1935	Life Begins at 40	[2]
1935	The Informer	Academy Award, Best Writing, Screenplay (not accepted until 1938)[2]
1935	The Arizonian	[2]
1935	She	[2]
1935	Steamboat Round the Bend	[2]
1935	The Crusades	[2]
1935	The Three Musketeers	[2]
1936	Mary of Scotland	[2]
1937	The Plough and the Stars	[2]
1937	The Toast of New York	[2]
1937	The Hurricane	[2]
1938	Bringing Up Baby	[2]
1938	Carefree	[2]
1939	Gunga Din	[2]
1939	Stagecoach	[2]
1939	The 400 Million	[2]
1940	The Long Voyage Home	Academy Award nominee[1][2]
1941	Man Hunt	[2]
1941	Swamp Water	[2]
1942	The Battle of Midway
1943	Air Force	Academy Award nominee[1][2]
1943	This Land Is Mine	[2]
1943	Mr. Lucky	[2]
1943	For Whom the Bell Tolls	[2]
1944	Government Girl	Also producer and director[2]
1944	It Happened Tomorrow	[2]
1945	And Then There Were None	[2]
1945	The Bells of St. Mary's	[2]
1945	Scarlet Street	[2]
1946	Sister Kenny	Also producer and director[2]
1947	The Fugitive	[2]
1947	Mourning Becomes Electra	Also producer and director[2]
1949	Pinky	[2]
1951	Rawhide	[2]
1952	Return of the Texan	[2]
1952	The Big Sky	[2]
1954	Prince Valiant	[2]
1956	Run for the Sun	[2]
1957	The Tin Star	Academy Award nominee[1][2]
1959	The Hangman	[2]
1960	Heller in Pink Tights	[2]

References

External links

• Dudley Nichols at IMDb
• Dudley Nichols at the Internet Broadway Database
• Dudley Nichols at Find a Grave
• Finding aid author: Norm Gillespie (2013). "She by H. Rider Haggard; screenplay by Ruth Rose; additional dialogue by Dudley Nichols". Prepared for the L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Provo, Utah. Retrieved May 16, 2016.
• Dudley Nichols Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

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[ru] Николс, Дадли

Дадли Николс (англ. Dudley Nichols; 6 апреля 1895, Вапаконета[en], Огайо, США — 4 января 1960, Голливуд, Калифорния, США) — американский сценарист, продюсер и режиссёр.

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