Name Roger MacDougall Role Playwright | Education University of Glasgow | |
Died May 27, 1993, Northwood, London, United Kingdom Books Escapade: A Play in Three Acts Nominations Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay, BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay Movies The Man in the White Suit, The Mouse That Roared, Spare a Copper, A Touch of Larceny, Midnight Menace Similar People Alexander Mackendrick, John Dighton, Stanley Mann, Joy Batchelor, John Halas | ||
Roger MacDougall (2 August 1910, in Glasgow – 27 May 1993) was a Scottish playwright, screenwriter and director.
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Biography
MacDougall began writing the occasional screenplay in the late 30s, working both alone and in collaboration with others. Most of his plays were produced during the 50s. As a screenwriter, his best-known films are The Man in the White Suit (for which he received a 1952 Academy Award nomination) and The Mouse That Roared. He was a cousin of Alexander Mackendrick.
During the 1950s he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis which eventually resulted in significant disability. Through disillusionment with orthodox medical treatments at the time, he developed a diet, loosely based on a paleolithic diet, that apparently returned him to good health and sustained remission. Following this experience, he published a pamphlet describing his diet intended to help other patients to achieve similar results. This diet produced positive results in other patients, though success was not universal.