Edmond Seward
Edmond Seward (26 September 1906 - 12 February 1954) was a Hollywood screenwriter who had originally attended Northwestern University and worked as a journalist, before doing some writing for Disney.[1]
During the mid-1930s he was brought out to Australia by director Ken G. Hall, to write movies and train Australian screenwriters for Cinesound Productions.[2][3]
"We hired him at one hundred pounds a week as a writer and he laughed at it, but he said he would like a trip to the South Seas, and he came for one hundred pounds a week and brought his wife," said Hall. "He didn't know all that much as it turned out."[4]
Seward ended up writing two films for Cinesound, Thoroughbred (1936) and Orphan of the Wilderness (1936), as well as adapting Thoroughbred into a novel.[5] He soon returned to Hollywood, with Hall claiming the writer "had not been a bell-ringing success".[6] Hall thought Seward may have been responsible for plagiarising the end of Thoroughbred from the Frank Capra movie, Broadway Bill (1934).[7]
Seward later worked for Screen Gems and wrote a number of scripts for the Bowery Boys.
Selected filmography
- Walls of Gold (1933)
- Fashions of 1934 (1934) (uncredited)
- Thoroughbred (1936)
- Orphan of the Wilderness (1936)
- The Devil Is Driving (1937) - uncredited
- The Duke Comes Back (1937)
- Gulliver's Travels (1939)
- There's Something About a Soldier (1943) - short
- The Disillusioned Bluebird (1944) - short
- Mutt 'n' Bones (1944) - short
- As the Fly Flies (1944) - short
- In Fast Company (1946)
- Bowery Bombshell (1946)
- Spook Busters (1946)
- Hard Boiled Mahoney (1946)
- News Hounds (1947)
- Bowery Buckaroos (1947)
- Angels' Alley (1948)
- Jinx Money (1948)
- Smugglers' Cove (1948)
- Trouble Makers (1948)
- Fighting Fools (1949)
- Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952) - additional dialogue
References
- ↑ Michael Barrier, 'A Day in the Life: Disney, 1931' at Michaelbarrier.com - includes a photo of Seward
- ↑ "AUSTRALIAN FILMS.". The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) (NSW: National Library of Australia). 15 June 1935. p. 19. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
- ↑ "FILM PRODUCTION.". The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) (NSW: National Library of Australia). 20 June 1935. p. 7. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
- ↑ Philip Taylor, 'Ken G. Hall', Cinema Papers January 1974 p 84
- ↑ "BOOK REVIEWS.". Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954) (Launceston, Tas.: National Library of Australia). 18 April 1936. p. 3 Edition: DAILY, Section: SPECIAL SATURDAY SECTION. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
- ↑ Ken G. Hall, Directed by Ken G. Hall, Lansdowne Press, 1977 p 116
- ↑ Ken G. Hall, Directed by Ken G. Hall, Lansdowne Press, 1977 p 108