Lajos Biró

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Lajos Bíró born Lajos Blau 22 August 1880 9 September 1948 was a Hungarian novelist playwright and screenwriter who wrote many films from the early 1920s through the late 1940s He was born in Nagyvárad AustriaHungary now Oradea Romania and eventually moved to the United Kingdom where he worked as a scenario chief for London Film Productions run by Alexander Korda collaborating on many screenplays with Arthur Wimperis He died in London on 9 September 1948 of a heart attack He is buried in the northern section of Hampstead Cemetery in north London In 1929 he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Writing for The Last Command but lost to Ben Hecht for Underworld the only other nomination in this category