Edwin J. Burke
American screenwriter
Edwin J. Burke | |
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| Born | (1889-08-30)August 30, 1889 Albany, New York, USA |
| Died | September 26, 1944(1944-09-26) (aged 55) New York City, New York, USA |
| Other names | Edwin Burke |
| Occupation(s) | screenwriter and playwright |
| Years active | 1928-1936 |
Edwin J. Burke (August 30, 1889 – September 26, 1944) was an American screenwriter who was most known for writing some of Shirley Temple's earlier films.
He won an Academy Award at the 5th Academy Awards in the category of Best Adapted Screenplay for the film Bad Girl.[1]
He was also a successful playwright.[2] He wrote the play that inspired the film This Thing Called Love.
Filmography
Only films that he wrote the screenplay for, not ones that were adapted from his plays-unless he helped write the screenplay to it.
- Plastered in Paris (1928)
- The Girl from Havana (1929)
- Good Medicine (1929)
- Happy Days (1929)
- Love, Live and Laugh (1929)
- Not Quite Decent (1929)
- Speakeasy (1929)
- Woman Trap (1929)
- The Dancers (1930)
- Harmony at Home (1930)
- Man Trouble (1930)
- Auto Intoxication (1931)
- Bad Girl (1931)
- It Might Be Worse (1931)
- The Man Who Came Back (1931)
- Mr. Lemon of Orange (1931)
- Sob Sister (1931)
- The Stolen Jools (1931)
- Young as You Feel (1931)
- Call Her Savage (1932)
- Dance Team (1932)
- Down to Earth (1932)
- Hello, Sister! (1933)
- Paddy the Next Best Thing (1933)
- Bright Eyes (1934)
- Now I'll Tell (1934)
- Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)
- The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935)
- The Littlest Rebel (1935)
- One More Spring (1935)
- Song and Dance Man (1936)
References
External links
- Edwin J. Burke at IMDb
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- Benjamin Glazer (1928)
- Hanns Kräly (1929)
- Frances Marion (1930)
- Howard Estabrook (1931)
- Edwin J. Burke (1932)
- Victor Heerman and Sarah Y. Mason (1933)
- Robert Riskin (1934)
- Dudley Nichols (1935)
- Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney (1936)
- Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, and Norman Reilly Raine (1937)
- Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Arthur Lewis, W. P. Lipscomb, and George Bernard Shaw (1938)
- Sidney Howard (1939)
- Donald Ogden Stewart (1940)
- Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller (1941)
- George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West, and Arthur Wimperis (1942)
- Philip G. Epstein, Julius J. Epstein, and Howard Koch (1943)
- Frank Butler and Frank Cavett (1944)
- Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder (1945)
- Robert Sherwood (1946)
- George Seaton (1947)
- John Huston (1948)
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1949)
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950)
- Harry Brown and Michael Wilson (1951)
- Charles Schnee (1952)
- Daniel Taradash (1953)
- George Seaton (1954)
- Paddy Chayefsky (1955)
- John Farrow, S. J. Perelman, and James Poe (1956)
- Pierre Boulle, Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson (1957)
- Alan Jay Lerner (1958)
- Neil Paterson (1959)
- Richard Brooks (1960)
- Abby Mann (1961)
- Horton Foote (1962)
- John Osborne (1963)
- Edward Anhalt (1964)
- Robert Bolt (1965)
- Robert Bolt (1966)
- Stirling Silliphant (1967)
- James Goldman (1968)
- Waldo Salt (1969)
- Ring Lardner Jr. (1970)
- Ernest Tidyman (1971)
- Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo (1972)
- William Peter Blatty (1973)
- Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo (1974)
- Bo Goldman and Lawrence Hauben (1975)
- William Goldman (1976)
- Alvin Sargent (1977)
- Oliver Stone (1978)
- Robert Benton (1979)
- Alvin Sargent (1980)
- Ernest Thompson (1981)
- Costa-Gavras and Donald E. Stewart (1982)
- James L. Brooks (1983)
- Peter Shaffer (1984)
- Kurt Luedtke (1985)
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1986)
- Bernardo Bertolucci and Mark Peploe (1987)
- Christopher Hampton (1988)
- Alfred Uhry (1989)
- Michael Blake (1990)
- Ted Tally (1991)
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1992)
- Steven Zaillian (1993)
- Eric Roth (1994)
- Emma Thompson (1995)
- Billy Bob Thornton (1996)
- Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1997)
- Bill Condon (1998)
- John Irving (1999)
- Stephen Gaghan (2000)
- Akiva Goldsman (2001)
- Ronald Harwood (2002)
- Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, and Fran Walsh (2003)
- Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004)
- Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (2005)
- William Monahan (2006)
- Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007)
- Simon Beaufoy (2008)
- Geoffrey S. Fletcher (2009)
- Aaron Sorkin (2010)
- Alexander Payne, Jim Rash, and Nat Faxon (2011)
- Chris Terrio (2012)
- John Ridley (2013)
- Graham Moore (2014)
- Adam McKay and Charles Randolph (2015)
- Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney (2016)
- James Ivory (2017)
- Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott and Spike Lee (2018)
- Taika Waititi (2019)
- Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller (2020)
- Sian Heder (2021)
- Sarah Polley (2022)
- Cord Jefferson (2023)
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