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Charles Lederer

Screenwriter / Film Director | * 12/31/1906 († 69, 03/05/1976) | New York City, New York (United States of America (USA))
Charles Davies Lederer (December 31, 1910 – March 5, 1976) was an American screenwriter and film director. He was born into a theatrical family in New York, and after his parents divorced, was raised in California by his aunt, Marion Davies, actress and mistress to newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst. A child prodigy, he entered the University of California, Berkeley at age 13, but dropped out after a few years to work as a journalist with Hearst's newspapers. Lederer is recognized for his comic and acerbic adaptations and collaborative screenplays of the 1940s and early 1950s. His screenplays frequently delved into the corrosive influences of wealth and power. His comedy writing was considered among the best of the period, and he, along with writer friends Ben Hecht and Herman Mankiewicz, became major contributors to the film genre known as "screwball comedy". Among his notable screenplays which he wrote or co-wrote, were The Front Page (1931), the critically acclaimed His Girl Friday (1940), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes... ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Comedies | Drama | Romance / Love

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Movies with Charles Lederer as Crew(45)

Writing/Original Film Writer2001 Ocean's Eleven
Writing/Original Film Writer1995 Kiss of Death
Writing/Book1967 Kismet
Writing/Screenplay1964 A Global Affair
Writing/Screenplay1962 Mutiny on the Bounty
Writing/Screenplay1962 Follow That Dream
Writing/Screenplay1960 Can-Can
Writing/Screenplay1960 Ocean's Eleven
Directing/Director1959 Never Steal Anything Small
Writing/Writer1959 Never Steal Anything Small
Writing/Screenplay1959 It Started with a Kiss
Writing/Screenplay1957 Tip on a Dead Jockey
Writing/Adaptation1957 The Spirit of St. Louis
Writing/Screenplay1956 Gaby
Writing/Screenplay1955 Kismet
Writing/Screenplay1953 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Writing/Screenplay1952 Monkey Business
Writing/Screenplay1952 Fearless Fagan
Writing/Screenplay1951 The Thing from Another World
Directing/Director1951 On the Loose
Writing/Screenplay1950 Wabash Avenue
Writing/Story1950 Wabash Avenue
Writing/Screenplay1949 I Was a Male War Bride
Writing/Story1949 Red Hot and Blue
Writing/Screenplay1947 Ride the Pink Horse
Writing/Co-Writer1947 The Lady from Shanghai
Writing/Writer1947 Her Husband's Affairs
Writing/Screenplay1947 Kiss of Death
Writing/Screenplay1943 The Youngest Profession
Writing/Screenplay1943 Slightly Dangerous
Directing/Director1942 Fingers at the Window
Writing/Screenplay1941 Love Crazy
Writing/Screenplay1940 His Girl Friday
Writing/Screenplay1940 I Love You Again
Writing/Screenplay1940 Comrade X
Writing/Screenplay1939 Within the Law
Writing/Screenplay1939 Broadway Serenade
Writing/Screenplay1937 Double or Nothing
Writing/Screenplay1937 Mountain Music
Crew/Additional Dialogue1935 Baby Face Harrington
Crew/Sequence Supervisor1933 Topaze
Writing/Writer1932 Cock of the Air
Writing/Dialogue1932 Cock of the Air
Crew/Additional Dialogue1931 The Front Page

Full Name: Charles Lederer
Born: Monday, 12/31 1906 (December) in New York City, New York (United States of America (USA))
Died: Friday, 03/05 1976 (March) in Los Angeles (aged: 69)
Zodiac sign: Capricorn (Chinese zodiac sign: Horse)
Languages: English (EN)
Member of: Writers Guild of America, West
Spouses (current/former): Anne Shirley, Virginia Nicolson
Siblings: Pepi Lederer
Father: George Washington Lederer
Mother: Reine Davies
Charles Lederer frequently works together with these people:
Ben Hecht (11x, Crew)
Cedric Gibbons (10x, Crew)
Douglas Shearer (8x, Crew)
Edwin B. Willis (8x, Crew)
Howard Hawks (7x, Crew)
Lyle R. Wheeler (5x, Crew)
Ben Nye (5x, Crew)
William Tannen (5x, Actor)
Lewis Milestone (5x, Crew)
Bob Wright (5x, Crew)
Barbara Bedford (5x, Actress)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:893408, Added: 11/18/2018, Last updated: 03/22/2024