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In 1995, Wilson was credited by the academy's board of directors with an Academy Award nomination as a co-writer of Lawrence of Arabia and credited as the winner of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Best British Dramatic Screenplay .
Michael Wilson was born on 1 July 1914 in McAlester, Oklahoma, USA. He was a writer, known for Lawrence of Arabia (1962), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and A Place in the Sun (1951). He was married to Zelma Wilson. He died on 9 April 1978 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
- Writer
- July 1, 1914
- Michael Wilson
- April 9, 1978
American screenwriter. Learn about this topic in these articles: “Friendly Persuasion” In Friendly Persuasion. …Academy Award, but the writer, Michael Wilson, was not named as a nominee, because he had been blacklisted after refusing to answer the House Un-American Activities Committee’s questions concerning communist affiliations.
Career: teacher and writer; 1941—first film as writer, The Men in Her Life ; 1951—refused to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and blacklisted: for several later film projects he used a pseudonym or received no credit; 1954–64—lived in France.
Sep 17, 1995 · Seventeen years after his death, blacklisted screenwriter Michael Wilson is getting credit for having co-written one of Hollywood's most highly regarded films - ``Lawrence of Arabia.''
Apr 10, 1978 · Michael Wilson, a screenwriter who shared the 1952 Academy Award for the script of “A Place in the Sun” and who was later blacklisted for his refusal to testify about his alleged membership in...
Pages in category "Films with screenplays by Michael Wilson (writer)" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
