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Philip Yordan (April 1, 1914 – March 24, 2003) was an American screenwriter, film producer, novelist and playwright. [1] [2] [3] He was a three-time Academy Award nominee, winning Best Story for Broken Lance (1951).
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Bullied by peers for his owlish demeanor and Coke bottle glasses, Yordan was a voracious reader of detective stories; he contemplated a career as a writer. After graduation from high school, he earned a law degree at night school, bought a car, and hired a kid to chauffeur him around the Windy City.
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Philip Yordan. Writer: Detective Story. 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).
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Jun 26, 1988 · Philip Yordan is the great mystery man of the post-1930s generation of Hollywood screenwriters. No film writer has more protean credits for the last 50 years--from the tough-guy “Dillinger ...
Apr 3, 2003 · April 3, 2003 12 AM PT. Times Staff Writer. 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...
