Philip Ives Dunne (February 11, 1908 – June 2, 1992) was an American screenwriter, film director and producer, who worked prolifically from 1932 until 1965. He spent the majority of his career at 20th Century Fox. He crafted well regarded romantic and historical dramas, usually adapted from another medium. Dunne 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). Dunne 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 h...
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