Philip Dunne

Philip Ives Dunne February 11 1908 June 2 1992 was an American screenwriter film director and producer who worked prolifically from 1932 until 1965 He spent the majority of his career at 20th Century Fox He crafted well regarded romantic and historical dramas usually adapted from another medium Dunne was a leading Screen Writers Guild organizer and was politically active during the Hollywood Blacklist episode of the 1940s1950s He is best known for the films How Green Was My Valley 1941 The Ghost and Mrs Muir 1947 The Robe 1953 and The Agony and the Ecstasy 19651 Dunne received two Academy Award nominations for screenwriting How Green Was My Valley 1941 and David and Bathsheba 1951 He also received a Golden Globe nomination for his 1965 screen adaptation of Irving Stones novel The Agony and the Ecstasy as well as several peer awards from the Writers Guild of America WGA including the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement Many notable directors worked with Dunnes screenplays including Carol Reed John Ford Jacques Tourneur Elia Kazan Otto Preminger Joseph L Mankiewicz and Michael Curtiz among others