Richard L. Breen

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Richard L. Breen
Born	(1918-06-26)June 26, 1918 Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died	February 1, 1967(1967-02-01) (aged 48) Los Angeles, California, USA
Occupation	Writer, Screenwriter, Director
Years active	1948-1967

Richard L. Breen (June 26, 1918 – February 1, 1967) was a Hollywood screenwriter and director. He began as a freelance radio writer. After a stint in the US Navy during World War II, he began writing for films and worked alone and in collaboration with such distinguished writers as Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett.

He won an Oscar for his work on the screenplay to Titanic (1953), and was nominated for A Foreign Affair (1948) and Captain Newman, M.D. (1963).

In 1957, he directed one film Stopover Tokyo, and then returned to screenwriting. He was president of the Screenwriters' Guild from 1952 to 1953.

He was also credited as "Richard Breen" and "Robert Breen".

References

Richard L. Breen at the Internet Movie Database

v t e Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) (1940–1960)

Preston Sturges (1940) Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles (1941) Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner, Jr. (1942) Norman Krasna (1943) Lamar Trotti (1944) Richard Schweizer (1945) Muriel Box and Sydney Box (1946) Sidney Sheldon (1947) None Given (1948) Robert Pirosh (1949) Charles Brackett, D. M. Marshman, Jr. and Billy Wilder (1950) Alan Jay Lerner (1951) T. E. B. Clarke (1952) Charles Brackett, Richard L. Breen and Walter Reisch (1953) Budd Schulberg (1954) Sonya Levien and William Ludwig (1955) Albert Lamorisse (1956) George Wells (1957) Nathan E. Douglas and Harold Jacob Smith (1958) Clarence Greene, Maurice Richlin, Russell Rouse and Stanley Shapiro (1959) I. A. L. Diamond and Billy Wilder (1960)

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Name	Breen, Richard L.
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Date of birth	June 26, 1918
Place of birth	Chicago, Illinois, USA
Date of death	February 1, 1967
Place of death	Los Angeles County, California, USA

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