Daniel Taradash
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| Daniel Taradash | |||||||
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| Born | January 29, 1913 Louisville, Kentucky |
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| Died | February 22, 2003 (aged 90) Los Angeles, California |
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| Spouse(s) | Madeleine Forbes (1945-2003) | ||||||
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Daniel Taradash (January 29, 1913 - February 22, 2003) was an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter.
Taradash's credits include Golden Boy (1939), From Here to Eternity (1952), Rancho Notorious (1952), Don't Bother to Knock (1952), Désirée (1954), Picnic (1955), Storm Center (1956), which he also directed, Bell, Book and Candle (1958), Morituri (1965), Hawaii (1966), Castle Keep (1969), Doctors' Wives (1971), and Bogie (1980), a film biography of Humphrey Bogart.
Taradash won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Drama for From Here to Eternity, and received a WGA nomination for Picnic.
Taradash died of pancreatic cancer in Los Angeles.
| Preceded by Gregory Peck |
President of Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences 1970-1973 |
Succeeded by Walter Mirisch |
