Name Gordon Wellesley Role Screenwriter | Spouse Katherine Strueby Books Sex and the Occult | |
Died October 1980, London, United Kingdom Nominations Academy Award for Best Story Movies The Silver Fleet, The March Hare, The High Command, Freedom Radio, Queen of Hearts Similar People Vernon Sewell, Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat, Basil Dean, Esmond Knight | ||
Gordon Wong Wellesley (8 December 1894 – 1980) was an Australian-born screenwriter and writer of Chinese descent. Born in Sydney in 1894 he wrote over thirty screenplays in the United States and Britain, often collaborating with the director Carol Reed. He began his career in Hollywood in the early 1930s and worked in Britain beginning about 1935. He was married to the scriptwriter Katherine Strueby. He was nominated for an Oscar for Best Writing, Original Story at the 1942 Oscars for Night Train to Munich, which was based on his novel, Report on a Fugitive.
He lived in Hammersmith Road, London and after World War II he worked on several television scripts.
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