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20th-century American screenwriters

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Scott Frank
American screenwriter and director
Gina Prince-Bythewood
American film director and screenwriter
Philip G. Epstein
American screenwriter (1909-1952)
Edward Dillon
American film director and actor (1879–1933)
Dudley Nichols
American screenwriter (1895-1960)
Tay Garnett
American film director and writer (1894–1977)
Gene Nelson
American actor, dancer, screenwriter, director (1920-1996)
Ilene Chaiken
American television director, producer and writer (born 1957)
Ruth Orkin
American photographer and filmmaker (1921-1985)
Charles Brackett
American screenwriter (1892–1969)
Nicholas Stoller
British-American filmmaker
John Ridley
American writer and director
Abraham Polonsky
American politician (1910-1999)
Philip Wylie
American writer (1902–1971)
Lou Tellegen
American actor, director, and screenwriter (1881-1934)
Hobart Bosworth
American film actor, director, writer, and producer (1867-1943)
Dorothy Davenport
American actress (1895–1977)
Budd Schulberg
American writer (1914–2009)
David Mirkin
American writer, director and producer
Ernest Lehman
American screenwriter (1915-2005)
Jack Hannah
American animator (1913-1994)
Christy Cabanne
American film director, screenwriter and actor (1888-1950)
Robert Rodat
American film and television writer and television producer
Charles Brabin
British-American film director (1882–1957)
Adela Rogers St. Johns
American journalist, novelist, and screenwriter (1894-1988)
Lambert Hillyer
Film director, Screenwriter (1893-1969)
Ida May Park
Screenwriter, Film director (1879-1954)
Robert Kramer
American director, actor and screenwriter (1939-1999)
Jhonen Vasquez
American cartoonist
Robert Ellis
American actor and film director (1892-1974)
Robert Arthur Jr.
American mystery and speculative fiction writer (1909–1969)
Joe Eszterhas
Hungarian-American screenwriter
Thomas Dixon Jr.
American Baptist minister, lawyer, politician and white supremacist writer (1864–1946)
Harold Lamb
American historian and novelist (1892–1962)
Charles Avery
American actor and film director (1873–1926)
Albert Maltz
American writer (1908–1985)
George B. Seitz
American film director, producer and screenwriter (1888-1944)
Charles MacArthur
American playwright and screenwriter (1895-1956)
Lucien Hubbard
American screenwriter (1888–1971)
Tamara Jenkins
American filmmaker (born 1962)
Steven E. de Souza
American screenwriter and film director
Herbert Biberman
American screenwriter and film director (1900–1971)
George Axelrod
American screenwriter, producer (1922-2003)
Ted Healy
American vaudeville performer, comedian, and actor (1896–1937)
Crane Wilbur
American actor, film writer, director (1886-1973)
Albert Hackett
American screenwriter (1900-1995)
Mike Reiss
American screenwriter
Marv Wolfman
American comic book writer
Edward F. Cline
American actor and director (1891-1961)
Jenji Kohan
American television writer, producer, and director
Owen Davis
American dramatist (1874–1956)
Robert Smigel
American actor and comedian
Michael Schur
American television producer and writer
Damien Leone
American film director and producer
Colin Campbell
American film director and screenwriter (1859-1928)
Philip Dunne
American writer, producer, director (1908-1992)
Edward Ludwig
Film director, screenwriter (1899–1982)
Marion Mack
American actress and screenwriter (1902-1989)
Tom Kapinos
American screenwriter
Hugh Wilson
American director, writer and actor (1943-2018)