Anthony Veiller

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Anthony Veiller 23 June 1903 27 June 1965 was an American screenwriter and film producer The son of the screenwriter Bayard Veiller and the English actress Margaret Wycherly Anthony Veiller wrote for 41 films between 1934 and 1964 He was born on 23 June 1903 in New York City to Bayard Veiller and Margaret Wycherly He moved to Hollywood in 1930 Veiller was twice nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay In 1937 he cowrote with Morrie Ryskind the screenplay for Stage Door starring Katharine Hepburn Ginger Rogers and Adolphe Menjou This very loose adaptation of the play by George S Kaufman and Edna Ferber was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture Veiller was also Oscarnominated for writing with uncredited help from John Huston and Richard Brooks The Killers 1946 an adaptation of the short story by Ernest Hemingway This seminal example of film noir which introduced Burt Lancaster to filmgoers won an Edgar Award as best mystery film of 1946 and in 2008 was enshrined in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally historically or aesthetically significant Veiller frequently worked with top directors During the Second World War he worked with Frank Capra on several films in the documentarypropaganda film series collectively titled Why We Fight In 1946 the same year as The Killers Veiller cowrote The Stranger directed by and starring Orson Welles For State of the Union 1948 again directed by Capra Veiller was credited as coproducer as well as cowriter Veiller worked with director John Huston on several films Moulin Rouge 1952 Beat the Devil 1953 The List of Adrian Messenger 1963 and The Night of the Iguana 1964 the film of the Tennessee Williams play that became Veillers final screen credit Veiller died on 27 June 1965 of cancer in Hollywood California He was buried in the St Mary Churchyard Bepton Chichester West Sussex England as was his mother