Name Charles Booth Role Writer | Books The Excommunicated | |
Died May 22, 1949, Beverly Hills, California, United States Awards Academy Award for Best Story Nominations Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay, Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Western Movies The House on 92nd Street, The General Died at D, Johnny Angel, Sundown, Behind Green Lights Similar People Norbert Brodine, Louis de Rochemont, Henry Hathaway, Edwin L Marin, H Bruce Humberstone | ||
Charles G. Booth (February 12, 1896 – May 22, 1949) was a British-born writer who settled in America and wrote several classic Hollywood stories, including The General Died at Dawn (1936) and Sundown (1941). He won an Academy Award for Best Story for The House on 92nd Street in 1945, a thinly disguised version of the FBI "Duquesne Spy Ring saga", which led to the largest espionage conviction in the history of the United States. He also penned the short story "Caviar for His Excellency" which was the basis for the play "The Magnificent Fraud" and was the basis for Paul Mazursky's 1988 film Moon Over Parador.
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