For the American producer (1920-2009), see Charles Schneer.Charles Schnee (6 August 1916 Bridgeport, Connecticut - 29 November 1963 Beverly Hills, California) gave up law to become a screenwriter in the mid-1940s, crafting scripts for the classic Westerns Red River (1948) and The Furies (1950), the social melodrama They Live By Night (1949), and the cynical Hollywood saga The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), for which he won an Academy Award.He worked primarily as a film producer and production executive during the mid-1950s (credits include Until They Sail), but he eventually turned his attention back to scriptwriting.
Schnee abandoned a career as a lawyer (graduate of Yale Law School) in 1946 to become a screenwriter and producer. He excelled at melodramas and westerns, often dissecting the plight of outcasts or misfits in a changing environment. Schnee won an Academy Award for the Hollywood 'exposé' The Bad and the Beautiful (1952). This, along with the noirish revenge western The Furies (1950) and Two Weeks in Another Town (1962), can be regarded as constituting his best work.
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(1961-1962) President of the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAw)
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