Edmund H. North

Edmund Hall North (March 12, 1911 – August 28, 1990) was an American screenwriter who shared an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay with Francis Ford Coppola in 1970 for their script for Patton.^[1][2][3]

North wrote the screenplay for the 1951 science-fiction classic The Day the Earth Stood Still and is credited with creating the famous line from the film, "Klaatu barada nikto".^[4]

He was a son of Bobby North and Stella Maury who performed in vaudeville and the Ziegfeld Follies.^[1] North began writing plays while attending Culver Military Academy in Indiana and at Stanford University. As a major in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War II, he made training and educational films.

North was a president of the screen branch of the Writers Guild of America in which he served on more than 40 committees, including the contract-bargaining panel.

North and his wife, Collette had two daughters. He lived in Brentwood, Los Angeles, and was 79 when he died.

Credits (alone or in collaboration)

• One Night of Love (1934)
• Bunker Bean (1936)
• I'm Still Alive (1940)
• Dishonored Lady (1947)
• Colorado Territory (1949)
• Flamingo Road (1949)
• Young Man With a Horn (1950)
• Only the Valiant (1950)
• The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
• The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1952)
• Destry (1954)
• The Far Horizons (1955)
• The Proud Ones (1956)
• The Lady Takes a Flyer (1958) (screenstory only, basis for the screenplay by Danny Arnold)
• Cowboy (1958) (fronted for Dalton Trumbo)
• Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
• Damn the Defiant (1962) aka H.M.S. Defiant
• Patton (1970)
• Meteor (1979)
• The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) (screenplay credit)

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