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Robert Buckner
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Occupation
Writer
Children
Robert Buckner Jr.
Education
University of Virginia
Role
Film producer
Name
Robert Buckner
Born
May 28, 1906 (
1906-05-28
)
Crewe, Virginia, United States
Died
August 1989, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Awards
Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
Movies
Yankee Doodle Dandy, Santa Fe Trail, Dodge City, Love Me Tender, Confidential Agent
Similar People
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Robert Buckner (May 28, 1906 – August, 1989) was a film screenwriter, producer and short story writer.
Buckner studied at the University of Virginia and the University of Edinburgh. He began his professional writing career at age 20, as London correspondent for the New York World.
He wrote the screenplays for films including Knute Rockne All American (1940). As a producer, the Crewe, Virginia-born Buckner worked on the 1946 John Garfield film Nobody Lives Forever, Confidential Agent (1945) with Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall, and Mission to Moscow (1943).
In June 1947 Buckner left Warner Bros for Universal.
In 1957 he wrote Sigrid and the Sergeant, his first prose in almost twenty years.
He specialized in Westerns at the end of his career.
In his later life, Buckner lived in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. He was a fine artist and recognized leader in the art community there. He died and was buried in San Miguel in 1989.
He is survived by his son Robert Buckner Jr., last known to be living in the Portland, Oregon area.
Works
"The Man Who Won the War", 1936 (short story)
Gold Is Where You Find It (1938) - writer
Jezebel (1938) - uncredited writer
Love, Honor and Behave (1938) - writer
Comet Over Broadway (1938) - writer
The Oklahoma Kid (1939) - writer
Espionage Agent (1939) - writer
The Angels Wash Their Faces (1939) - writer
Dodge City (1939) - writer
You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939) - writer
Santa Fe Trail (1940) - writer
Knute Rockne All American (1940) - writer
My Love Came Back (1940) - writer
Virginia City (1940) - writer
Dive Bomber (1941) - writer
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) - writer
Gentleman Jim (1942) - producer
Mission to Moscow (1943) - producer
The Desert Song (1943) - writer, producer
Roaring Guns (1944) (short) - writer
Uncertain Glory (1944) - producer
God is My Co-Pilot (1945) - producer
San Antonio (1945) - producer
Confidential Agent (1945) - writer, producer
Devotion (1946) - producer
Nobody Lives Forever (1946) - producer
Night Watch (1947) (novel) - writer - became Sword in the Desert
