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  1. Nelson Roosevelt Gidding (September 15, 1919 – May 2, 2004) was an American screenwriter specializing in film adaptation. A longtime collaboration with director Robert Wise began with Gidding's screenplay for I Want to Live! (1958), which earned him an Oscar nomination.

  2. May 14, 2004 · Nelson Gidding, a Hollywood screenwriter who worked on classics like the Susan Hayward prison drama ''I Want to Live!,'' died on May 2 at a hospital in Santa Monica,...

  3. Nelson Gidding -- a screenwriter and frequent collaborator of director Robert Wise whose credits included “The Haunting,” “The Andromeda Strain” and “I Want to Live!” -- has died.

  4. Writer: The Andromeda Strain. Born in New York and educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard, Nelson Gidding said that he had been interested in writing ever since he was a child and had a poem published in the Boy Scouts magazine ("That was as recently as the mid-'20s!" he laughed).

    • September 15, 1919
    • May 1, 2004
  5. May 16, 2004 · Nelson Gidding, who co-wrote the Academy Award-nominated screenplay for the 1958 movie " I Want to Live! " has died. He was 84. Mr. Gidding died April 2 at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center ...

  6. Gidding was a prominent television and Hollywood screenwriter whose credits include such films as The Haunting (1964), The Andromeda Strain (1970), and Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979).

  7. May 2, 2004 · Nelson Gidding, who co-wrote the Academy Award-nominated screenplay for the 1958 movie I Want to Live! has died. He was 84. Mr. Gidding died May 2, 2004 at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center, hospital spokesman Ted Brown said. I Want to Live! was based on the story of Barbara Graham, who was executed in 1955 for the...

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