Years active 1927-1950 Role Screenwriter | Name James McGuinness | |
Born December 20, 1893 ( 1893-12-20 ) Ireland Died December 4, 1950, New York City, New York, United States Nominations Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Western Movies A Night at the Opera, Rio Grande, A Girl in Every Port, The Battle of Midway, Men of Boys Town Similar People Morrie Ryskind, James Warner Bellah, George S Kaufman, Jack Conway, Sam Wood | ||
James Kevin McGuinness (December 20, 1893 – December 4, 1950) was an American screenwriter and film producer. He wrote for 36 films between 1927 and 1950. He wrote for The New Yorker magazine.
He was born in Ireland and immigrated to New York in 1904. He arrived in Los Angeles in the 1920s at the dawn of the "talkies" era and thereafter worked in the film industry as a writer and later a producer. He died in New York in 1950 from a heart attack.
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