Nationality United States Name Richard Breen Religion Roman Catholic | Years active 1948-1967 Ethnicity Irish | |
Born June 26, 1918 ( 1918-06-26 ) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Died February 1, 1967, Los Angeles, California, United States Awards Academy Award for Best Story and Screenplay, Writers Guild of America Award - The Edmund H. North Award Nominations Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay Movies Niagara, Titanic, A Foreign Affair, Stopover Tokyo, Tony Rome Similar People Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch, Billy Wilder, Phoebe Ephron, Henry Hathaway | ||
Richard L. Breen (June 26, 1918 – February 1, 1967) was a Hollywood screenwriter and director.
Biography
Breen was born in Chicago of Irish Catholic extraction. He began as a freelance radio writer. After a stint in the US Navy during World War II, he began writing for films. He won an Oscar for his work on the screenplay to Titanic (1953), and was nominated for A Foreign Affair (1948) and Captain Newman, M.D. (1963). In 1957, he directed one film Stopover Tokyo, and then returned to screenwriting. He was president of the Screenwriters' Guild from 1952-53.
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