Edmund H. North

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Edmund Hall North March 12 1911 August 28 1990 was an American screenwriter who shared an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay with Francis Ford Coppola in 1970 for their script for Patton North wrote the screenplay for the 1951 sciencefiction classic The Day the Earth Stood Still and is credited for creating the famous line from the film Klaatu barada nikto He was a son of Bobby North and Stella Maury who performed in vaudeville and the Ziegfeld Follies North began writing plays while attending Culver Military Academy in Indiana and at Stanford University As a major in the US Army Signal Corps during World War II he made training and educational films North was a former president of the screen branch of the Writers Guild of America in which he served on more than 40 committees including the contractbargaining panel North and his wife Collette had two daughters Susan and Bobbie He lived in Brentwood California and was 79 when he died