Dudley Nichols

1895-04-06 Wapakoneta, Ohio, USA 64 Credits

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dudley Nichols (April 6, 1895 – January 4, 1960) was an American screenwriter and director. Dudley Nichols was born April 6, 1895, in Wapakoneta, Ohio. He studied at the University of Michigan where he was active member of the Sigma Chapter of Theta Xi fraternity. After working as a reporter for the New York World, Nichols moved to Hollywood in 1929 and became one of the most highly regarded screenwriters of the 1930s and 1940s. He collaborated on many fi...

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Stagecoach

Stagecoach

1966

Writer

6.1
Writing

A group of unlikely travelling companions find themselves on the same stagecoach to Cheyenne. They include a drunken doctor, a bar girl who's been thr...

Ten Little Indians

Ten Little Indians

1965

Screenplay

6.2
Writing

Ten strangers are invited as weekend guests to a remote mountain mansion. When the host doesn't show up, the guests start dying, one by one, in unique...

Escape from Zahrain

Escape from Zahrain

1962

Writer

6.2
Writing

Yul Brynner plays political leader Sharif who is sprung from a police van on his way to a firing squad by young loyalists led by Sal Mineo. Yul and th...

Heller in Pink Tights

Heller in Pink Tights

1960

Screenplay

5.7
Writing

Nineteenth century Wyoming: the wild West. Mild-mannered Tom Healy has a two-wagon theater troupe hounded by creditors because Angela, his leading lad...

The Hangman

The Hangman

1959

Writer

6.3
Writing

A marshal nicknamed "The Hangman" because of his track record in hunting down and capturing wanted criminals traces a robbery suspect to a small town....

The Tin Star

The Tin Star

1957

Screenplay

7.0
Writing

An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge.

Run for the Sun

Run for the Sun

1956

Screenplay

5.9
Writing

Mike, a Hemingway-esque adventure novelist, is spending his days in a self-imposed exile somewhere in Central America. A reporter for Sight Magazine, ...

Prince Valiant

Prince Valiant

1954

Screenplay

5.9
Writing

A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne.

The Big Sky

The Big Sky

1952

Screenplay

6.5
Writing

Two tough Kentucky mountaineers join a trading expedition from St. Louis up the Missouri River to trade whisky for furs with the Blackfoot Indians. Th...

Return of the Texan

Return of the Texan

1952

Screenplay

6.0
Writing

A young widower named Sam Crockett returns from Kansas City to his small hometown in rural Texas, bringing with him his feisty grandfather and two you...

Rawhide

Rawhide

1951

Writer

6.7
Writing

At a desolate relay station in the west, a stagecoach attendant and a stranded woman traveller are held captive by a band of escaped convicts.

Pinky

Pinky

1949

Screenplay

7.1
Writing

Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her g...

Mourning Becomes Electra

Mourning Becomes Electra

1947

Director, Producer, Writer

6.3
Directing Producing Writing

Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tycoon Ezra Mannon and son Orin. Meanwhile Ezra’s conn...

The Fugitive

The Fugitive

1947

Screenplay

5.9
Writing

Anti-Catholic and anti-cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary government to persecute the state's last remaining pries...

Five Came Back: The Reference Films

Five Came Back: The Reference Films

1946

Writer

Writing

Includes 12 World War II-era propaganda films.

Sister Kenny

Sister Kenny

1946

Screenplay, Director

6.5
Writing Directing

An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validi...

The Bells of St. Mary's

The Bells of St. Mary's

1945

Screenplay

6.8
Writing

Father O'Malley is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemnation. He and Sister Benedict work together in an attempt to...

Scarlet Street

Scarlet Street

1945

Screenplay

7.6
Writing

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only...

And Then There Were None

And Then There Were None

1945

Screenplay

7.1
Writing

Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island and while they are waiting for the mysterious host to appear, a recording levels serious accusations at ...

It Happened Tomorrow

It Happened Tomorrow

1944

Adaptation, Screenplay

6.7
Writing

A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new...

Government Girl

Government Girl

1943

Director, Screenplay, Producer

5.2
Directing Writing Producing

An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.

For Whom the Bell Tolls

For Whom the Bell Tolls

1943

Screenplay

6.5
Writing

Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side t...

Bataan

Bataan

1943

Writer

6.4
Writing

During Japan's invasion of the Philippines in 1942, Capt. Henry Lassiter, Sgt. Bill Dane and a diverse group of American soldiers are ordered to destr...

This Land Is Mine

This Land Is Mine

1943

Screenplay, Producer

7.1
Writing Producing

Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and c...

Air Force

Air Force

1943

Screenplay

6.4
Writing

The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of t...

The Battle of Midway

The Battle of Midway

1942

Writer

5.8
Writing

The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox F...

Swamp Water

Swamp Water

1941

Writer

6.3
Writing

A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with the girl and persuades the fugitive to return to to...

Man Hunt

Man Hunt

1941

Screenplay

6.9
Writing

Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured,...

The Long Voyage Home

The Long Voyage Home

1940

Screenplay

6.6
Writing

The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays.

The Marshal Of Mesa City

The Marshal Of Mesa City

1939

Story

8.0
Writing

A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption.

The 400 Million

The 400 Million

1939

Writer

5.9
Writing

The 400 million people of China are heirs to a great civilization, as their pagodas and stone lions can attest. But they are under attack from the Jap...

Stagecoach

Stagecoach

1939

Screenplay

7.6
Writing

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the proc...

Carefree

Carefree

1938

Story, Adaptation

6.6
Writing

Dr. Tony Flagg's friend Steven has problems in the relationship with his fiancée Amanda, so he persuades her to visit Tony. After some minor misunders...

Bringing Up Baby

Bringing Up Baby

1938

Screenplay

7.5
Writing

David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo...

The Hurricane

The Hurricane

1937

Screenplay

6.6
Writing

A Polynesian sailor is separated from his wife when he's unjustly imprisoned for defending himself against a colonial bully. Members of the community ...

The Toast of New York

The Toast of New York

1937

Screenplay

5.8
Writing

After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he str...

The Plough and the Stars

The Plough and the Stars

1936

Screenplay

5.8
Writing

A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter rebellion.

Mary of Scotland

Mary of Scotland

1936

Screenplay

6.3
Writing

The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.

The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers

1935

Screenplay

6.4
Writing

The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respect...

Steamboat Round the Bend

Steamboat Round the Bend

1935

Screenplay

7.5
Writing

A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hange...

The Crusades

The Crusades

1935

Screenplay

6.2
Writing

King Richard the Lionhearted launches a crusade to preserve Christianity in Jerusalem.

She

She

1935

Additional Dialogue

5.5

Leo Vincey, told by his dying uncle of a lost land visited 500 years ago by his ancestor, heads out with family friend Horace Holly to try to discover...

The Arizonian

The Arizonian

1935

Screenplay

Writing

Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore ...

The Informer

The Informer

1935

Screenplay

6.7
Writing

Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over i...

Life Begins at Forty

Life Begins at Forty

1935

Screenplay

Writing

A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft fr...

Mystery Woman

1935

Story

Writing

A French military officer is convicted of treason and sent to Devil's Island. His wife takes it upon herself to obtain the stolen document and prove h...

Judge Priest

Judge Priest

1934

Screenplay

6.4
Writing

Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, restores the justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky using his common sense and his great sense...

Call It Luck

1934

Screenplay

6.0
Writing

A London taxicab driver cashes in on a big sweepstakes ticket and becomes the prey of a confidence-gang that sells him a nag of a cavalry horse on the...

Hold That Girl

Hold That Girl

1934

Writer

Writing

"That girl" is newspaper sob-sister Tony Bellamy (Claire Trevor), whose nose for news gets her into one jam after another, especially when she poses a...

The Lost Patrol

The Lost Patrol

1934

Screenplay

6.5
Writing

A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotamian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination, is kill...

You Can't Buy Everything

You Can't Buy Everything

1934

Screenplay

7.0
Writing

A scorned woman dreams of revenge on the man who betrayed her.

Pilgrimage

Pilgrimage

1933

Dialogue

6.9

A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.

The Man Who Dared

The Man Who Dared

1933

Writer

6.0
Writing

An "imaginative biography" of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago who was killed in the line of fire during an assassination attempt on President-elect Fra...

Hot Pepper

Hot Pepper

1933

Story

4.5
Writing

In this comedy, a pair of ex-Marines team up and get involved in a nightclub. Trouble ensues when they both fall in love with a feisty woman and begin...

Robbers' Roost

Robbers' Roost

1932

Adaptation

5.5

Running from the law, Jim Hall joins Hays’ gang. Hays is foreman on the Herrick ranch and plans to rustle Herrick’s cattle. Attracted to Herrick’s sis...

This Sporting Age

This Sporting Age

1932

Screenplay

Writing

Polo, a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals by driving a small ball into the opposing team's goal using a long-han...

Skyline

Skyline

1931

Writer

Writing

Skyline is a 1931 drama film directed by Sam Taylor and starring silent film veteran Thomas Meighan. It is based on a novel, East Side, West Side by F...

Three Rogues

Three Rogues

1931

Writer

Writing

In 1877, thieves Ace Beaudry, Bronco Dawson and Bull Stanley head West together after having each been betrayed by a woman. They come across a wagon t...

Seas Beneath

Seas Beneath

1931

Writer

5.4
Writing

In the waning days of WWI, a U.S. "Mystery Ship," sets sail for the coast of Spain towing a submarine. Their mission is to find and sink a U-boat that...

A Devil with Women

A Devil with Women

1930

Writer

5.3
Writing

Soldier of fortune Maxton is stranded in a Central American country. He and Tom, the nephew of the country's richest man, try to end Morloff's banditr...

One Mad Kiss

1930

Writer

Writing

Estrada, the chief government official of the region, has put a price on the head of José Savedra for causing the local people to rebel against his ta...

On the Level

On the Level

1930

Screenplay

Writing

An ironworker and his equally tough friend decide to leave New Orleans to work as beam-walkers on a New York City skyscraper. This arouses the ire of ...

Born Reckless

Born Reckless

1930

Screenplay

5.5
Writing

In order to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in the war.

Men Without Women

Men Without Women

1930

Screenplay

6.3
Writing

Made during the early days of sound cinema, this tense submarine adventure is an intriguing example of a hybrid silent-talkie. A disgraced English sub...