American screenwriter (1918–1987)
Wedding of William Rose (in his Black Watch uniform) and Tania Price in 1943
William Rose (August 31, 1918 – February 10, 1987) was an American screenwriter of British and Hollywood films.[1]
Life and career
Born in Jefferson City, Missouri , Rose traveled to Canada after the 1939 outbreak of World War II and volunteered to fight with the Black Watch .[2] After being stationed at bases in Scotland and Europe , he returned to live in Britain at war's end to work as a screenwriter, marrying an English woman, Tania Price , with whom he would later collaborate.[3]
Blessed with the ability to adapt to two distinct cultures, William Rose wrote a number of successful British comedies including Genevieve (1953).[3] He became a working associate of the American-born director Alexander Mackendrick notably for his collaboration on The Maggie (US:High and Dry , 1954) and The Ladykillers (1955).[3] He also provided scripts for Hollywood studios, earning several Academy Award nominations for his screenwriting and winning the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967).[4] Rose also won the Writers Guild of America award for Best Written American Comedy for The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966).[5]
In 1973, Rose's lifetime achievements were recognized by the Writers Guild of America with their Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement .[6] In the 1970s, he had a brief relationship with Katharine Hepburn .[7]
Rose settled in Jersey in the Channel Islands in 1964.[8] He died there in 1987.[9] He is buried in the Churchyard at St. Clement Parish Church, Jersey. William and Tania divorced; she died in 2015 aged 95.[10] [11]
Screenwriting awards
Filmography
Notes
^ Leo Verswijver (27 February 2003). "Movies Were Always Magical": Interviews with 19 Actors, Directors, and Producers from the Hollywood of the 1930s through the 1950s . McFarland. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-7864-1129-0 .
^ "William Rose - Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos" . AllMovie .
^ a b c "BFI Screenonline: Rose, William (1918-1987) Biography" . www.screenonline.org.uk .
^ "William Rose - Movie and Film Awards" . AllMovie .
^ "Writers Guild Awards Winners 1995-1949" . awards.wga.org .
^ "Screen Laurel Award Previous Recipients" . awards.wga.org .
^ Carter, Grace May (18 June 2016). Katharine Hepburn . New Word City. ISBN 9781612309613 – via Google Books.
^ "Oscar-winning screenwriter made his home in Jersey" . Bailiwick Express . 3 January 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2024 .
^ "William Rose" . BFI . Archived from the original on 12 July 2018.
^ "'The Ladykillers' scriptwriter from Gloucestershire village dies aged 95" Archived 2015-10-24 at the Wayback Machine , Gloucestershire Live, October 23, 2015.
^ Claudia Robinson, "Tania Rose obituary" , The Guardian , December 18, 2015.
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Awards for William Rose
1940–1975
Preston Sturges (1940)
Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles (1941)
Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner Jr. (1942)
Norman Krasna (1943)
Lamar Trotti (1944)
Richard Schweizer (1945)
Muriel Box and Sydney Box (1946)
Sidney Sheldon (1947)
No award (1948)
Robert Pirosh (1949)
Charles Brackett , D. M. Marshman Jr. , and Billy Wilder (1950)
Alan Jay Lerner (1951)
T. E. B. Clarke (1952)
Charles Brackett , Richard L. Breen , and Walter Reisch (1953)
Budd Schulberg (1954)
Sonya Levien and William Ludwig (1955)
Albert Lamorisse (1956)
George Wells (1957)
Nathan E. Douglas and Harold Jacob Smith (1958)
Clarence Greene , Maurice Richlin , Russell Rouse , and Stanley Shapiro (1959)
I. A. L. Diamond and Billy Wilder (1960)
William Inge (1961)
Ennio de Concini , Pietro Germi , and Alfredo Giannetti (1962)
James Webb (1963)
S. H. Barnett, Peter Stone and Frank Tarloff (1964)
Frederic Raphael (1965)
Claude Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven (1966)
William Rose (1967)
Mel Brooks (1968)
William Goldman (1969)
Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North (1970)
Paddy Chayefsky (1971)
Jeremy Larner (1972)
David S. Ward (1973)
Robert Towne (1974)
Frank Pierson (1975)
1976–2000 2001–present
1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s
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