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Philip Yordan (April 1, 1914 – March 24, 2003) was an American screenwriter, film producer, novelist and playwright. He was a three-time Academy Award nominee, winning Best Story for Broken Lance (1951).
Philip Yordan, the controversial and colorful Hollywood writer and producer who won an Oscar for his own work and acted as a front for blacklisted colleagues during the McCarthy era, has died.
Born in 1914, Yordan grew up on the West Side of Chicago. As a teenager, he ran a mail order beauty supply business out of the family basement, buying wholesale stock, repackaging and selling goods to outlets at a profit.
Philip Yordan (April 1, 1914 – March 24, 2003) was an American screenwriter, film producer, novelist and playwright. He was a three-time Academy Award nominee, winning Best Story for Broken Lance (1951).
Philip Yordan was born on 1 April 1914 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Detective Story (1951), Broken Lance (1954) and Dillinger (1945). He was married to Faith Clift and Marilyn Nash.
- Writer, Producer, Actor
- April 1, 1914
- Philip Yordan
- March 24, 2003
Jun 26, 1988 · Philip Yordan is the great mystery man of the post-1930s generation of Hollywood screenwriters.
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The play Anna Lucasta was a breakthrough for writer Philip Yordan, who went on to a prolific career as a screenwriter. The story of a prostitute who struggles for respectability is similar to that of Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie.
