Anthony Veiller

Anthony Veiller
Anthony Veiller
Born	June 23, 1903; New York, New York, U.S.
Died	June 27, 1965 (aged 62); Hollywood, California, U.S.
Resting place	St. Mary Churchyard, Bepton, West Sussex, England
Occupations	Film producer; screenwriter;
Years active	1934–1964
Parent(s)	Bayard Veiller ; Margaret Wycherly

Anthony Veiller (23 June 1903 – 27 June 1965) was an American screenwriter and film producer. He wrote for 41 films between 1934 and 1964.

Life and career

Veiller was born on 23 June 1903 in New York City to playwright and screenwriter Bayard Veiller and English-born actress Margaret Wycherly. He moved to Hollywood in 1930.^[1]

Veiller was twice nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. In 1937, he co-wrote (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 Oscar-nominated for writing (with uncredited help from John Huston and Richard Brooks) The Killers (1946), an adaptation of the short story by Ernest Hemingway. The film introduced Burt Lancaster to filmgoers, and won an Edgar Award as best mystery film of 1946. In 2008, it was included in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.

During the Second World War he worked with Frank Capra on several films in the documentary/propaganda film series collectively titled Why We Fight. In 1946 (the same year as The Killers), Veiller co-wrote The Stranger, directed by and starring Orson Welles. For State of the Union (1948), again directed by Capra, Veiller was credited as co-producer as well as co-writer. 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 Veiller's final screen credit.

Veiller died on 27, June 1965 of cancer in Hollywood, California, four days after his 62nd birthday.^[1] He was buried in the St. Mary Churchyard, Bepton, Chichester, West Sussex, England as was his mother.^[2]

Filmography

The Witching Hour (1934) - screenplay, producer
Menace (1934) - screenplay
The Notorious Sophie Lang (1934) - screenplay
Break of Hearts (1935) - screenplay
Star of Midnight (1935) - screenplay
College Scandal (1935) - uncredited writer
Jalna (1935) - screenplay
Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935) - screenplay
The Lady Consents (1936) - screenplay
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936) - screenplay
Swing Time (1936) - uncredited writer
A Woman Rebels (1936) - screenplay
Winterset (1936) - screenplay
The Soldier and the Lady (1937) - screenplay
Stage Door (1937) - screenplay
Radio City Revels (1938) - screenplay
The Saint in New York (1938) - screenplay
Gunga Din (1939) - uncredited writer
Let Us Live (1939) - screenplay
Disputed Passage (1939) - screenplay
Typhoon (1940) - producer
Safari (1940) - producer
The Quarterback (1940) - producer
Moon Over Burma (1940) - producer
Victory (1940) - producer
New York Town (1941) - producer
Her Cardboard Lover (1942) - screenplay
Why We Fight: Prelude to War (1942) (documentary) - uncredited writer
Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia (1943) (documentary) - uncredited writer, narrator
Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike (1943) (documentary) - uncredited writer, narrator
Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain (1943) (documentary) - uncredited director, narrator
Assignment in Brittany (1943) - screenplay
Know Your Ally: Britain (1944) (documentary) - uncredited director
Tunisian Victory (documentary) (1944) - uncredited writer
Adventure (1945) - screenplay
War Comes to America (1945) (documentary) - uncredited writer
Two Down and One to Go (1945) (documentary) - screenplay
Here is Germany (1945) (documentary) - uncredited writer, narrator
The Stranger (1946) - screenplay
The Killers (1946) - screenplay
State of the Union (1948) - screenplay, associate producer
Colorado Territory (1949) - producer
Backfire (1950) - producer
Chain Lightning (1950) - producer
Dallas (1950) - producer
Along the Great Divide (1951) - producer
Fort Worth (1951) - producer
Force of Arms (1951) - producer
Red Planet Mars (1952) - screenplay, producer
Moulin Rouge (1952) - screenplay
Beat the Devil (1953) - uncredited writer
That Lady (1955) - screenplay
Safari (1956) - screenplay
Monkey on My Back (1957) - screenplay
The Adventures of Tugboat Annie (1958) (TV series) - executive producer
Solomon and Sheba (1959) - screenplay
Timbuktu (1959) - screenplay
Markham (1960) (TV series) writer of episodes
The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) - screenplay
The Night of the Iguana (1964) - screenplay

References

^ ^a ^b "Anthony Veiller, 62, Wrote Screenplays". The New York Times. June 29, 1965. Retrieved 2012-11-16. Anthony Veiller, screen writer, died yesterday of cancer at the age of 62. Veiller, who was born in New York, came to Hollywood in 1930 as a writer. ...
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