North, Edmund H., 1911-1990

LC control no.	no 90003586
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	North, Edmund H., 1911-1990 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	United States
Birth date	1911-03-12
Death date	1990-08-28
Place of birth	New York (N.Y.)
Place of death	Santa Monica (Calif.)
Affiliation	United States. Army. Signal Corps Writers Guild of America
Profession or occupation	Screenwriters Actors
Found in	I dream too much [MP] 1935: credits (screen play by Edmund North) His Meteor, 1979: t.p. (Edmund H. North) Halliwell's Filmgoer's comp., 1985 (North, Edmund H.; b. 1911) IMDb, July 24, 2006 (Edmund H. North, b. Mar. 12, 1911; d. Aug. 28, 1990) IMDb, April 25, 2016 (Edmund H. North, born March 12, 1911 in New York City; writer and actor; died August 28, 1990 in Santa Monica, California) Wikipedia, April 25, 2016 (Edmund H. North; Edmund Hall North (March 12, 1911-August 28, 1990), was an American screenwriter who shared an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay with Francis Ford Coppola in 1970 for their script for Patton; North wrote the screenplay for the 1951 science-fiction classic The Day the Earth Stood Still and is credited for creating the famous line from the film, "Klaatu barada nikto;" he was a son of Bobby North and Stella Maury who performed in Vaudeville and the Ziegfeld Follies; North began writing plays while attending Culver Military Academy in Indiana and at Stanford University; as a major in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War II he made training and educational films; North was a former president of the screen branch of the Writers Guild of America in which he served on more than 40 committees, including the contract-bargaining panel)
Associated language	eng