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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
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 4, 2014 · Michael Wilson was perhaps the most accomplished screenwriter of his generation, lauded by his fellow writers and many of Hollywood’s greatest directors. He brought to his writing a brilliant mind, his Marxist ideas, and an unsurpassed skill in script construction.
- Larry Ceplair
- 2014
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.
Apr 12, 2017 · Michael Wilson, a graduate of Loyola New Orleans, wrote the New York Times column "Crime Scene" for the past six years.