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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.
In Lawrence of Arabia. The writer Michael Wilson was blacklisted at the time the film was made but was later recognized as cowriter with Robert Bolt of the screenplay for 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.
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.''
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 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...
