Douglas Morrow

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Name Douglas Morrow		Role Screenwriter Books Maurie: a true story

Full Name Douglas S. Morrow Born September 13, 1913 ( 1913-09-13 ) Oswego New York Died September 9, 1994, Kingston, New York, United States Movies Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Maurie Awards Academy Award for Best Story Similar People Monty Stratton, Peter Hyams, Sam Wood, Fritz Lang, William Snyder
Occupation Producer, screenwriter

Douglas Morrow (September 13, 1913 – September 9, 1994) was a Hollywood screenwriter and film producer. He earned an Academy Award for his script for 1949's The Stratton Story, a biography of baseball player Monty Stratton, who was disabled in a hunting accident. Morrow died of an aneurysm in 1994.

Morrow's other films included Jim Thorpe - All-American (1951) and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt. He also wrote for a number of television series.

Legacy

The Space Foundation annually presents the Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award to an individual or organization who has made significant contributions to public awareness of space programs. Recipients include:

1995 Discovery Communications, Inc.

1996 The Apollo 13 Movie Team

1997 The Cable News Network (CNN)

1998 NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

1999 The Crew of the Space Shuttle Mission STS-95

2000 Space Awareness Alliance

2001 Popular Science Magazine

2002 The late Gene Roddenberry and Majel Barrett Roddenberry

2003 Robert T. McCall

2004 Life magazine

2005 The Ansari X-Prize Foundation

2006 Tom Hanks