Paul Dehn

Paul Dehn (5 November 1912 – 30 September 1976) was a British screenwriter.

Biography and work

He was born in 1912 in Manchester, England. He was educated at Shrewsbury School, and attended Brasenose College, Oxford.^[1] While at Oxford, he contributed film reviews to weekly undergraduate papers.

He began his career in 1936 as a film reviewer for several London newspapers. He narrated the 1951 film Waters of Time and later wrote plays, operettas, and musicals for the stage. He wrote the lyrics for two films, The Innocents (1961) and Moulin Rouge (1952).

In 1949/50 he met the composer James Bernard with whom he started a professional relationship but who also became his life partner. Paul Dehn asked James Bernard to collaborate with him on the original screen story for the Boulting Brothers film Seven Days to Noon (1950).

Through the 1960s Dehn concentrated on several superior espionage films, notably The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965), and The Deadly Affair (1967). He later wrote the Planet of the Apes sequels. His work also included the libretto for William Walton's opera The Bear.

Screenplays

• Seven Days to Noon (1950)
• Waters of Time (1951)
• On Such a Night (1956)
• Orders to Kill (1958)
• Goldfinger (1964)
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
• The Deadly Affair (1966)
• The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
• Beryl Reid Says Good Evening (1968)
• Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
• Fragment of Fear (1970)
• Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
• Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
• Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
• Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

Awards and nominations

• Academy Award for Best Screenplay, 1950
• BAFTA Award Nomination for Best British Screenplay, 1959
• Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Foreign Film, 1965
• Writers Guild of America Award Nomination for Best American Drama, 1966
• Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture, 1966
• BAFTA Award Nomination for Best British Screenplay, 1968
• Edgar Allan Poe Award Nomination for Best Motion Picture, 1974
• Writers Guild of Britain Award for Best British Screenplay, 1974
• Academy Award Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, 1975

References

• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0214989/
• http://theoscarsite.com/whoswho3/dehn_p.htm
• http://movies.nytimes.com/person/159686/Paul-Dehn/filmography

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