John L. Balderston

John L. Balderston

1889-10-22 35 Credits

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John L. Balderston (October 22, 1889 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - March 8, 1954 Los Angeles, California) was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his horror and fantasy scripts. Balderston began his career as a journalist. He worked as European war correspondent during World War I. He was the editor of Outlook magazine and a correspondent for the New York World. In 1927, he was retained by Horace Liveright to revise Hamilton Deane's ...

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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

2008

Original Film Writer

5.5
Writing

Archaeologist Rick O'Connell travels to China, pitting him against an emperor from the 2,000-year-old Han dynasty who's returned from the dead to purs...

The Mummy Returns

The Mummy Returns

2001

Characters

6.4

Rick and Evelyn O’Connell, along with their 8-year-old son Alex, discover the key to the legendary Scorpion King’s might: the fabled Bracelet of Anubi...

The Mummy

The Mummy

1999

Original Film Writer

6.9
Writing

Dashing legionnaire Rick O'Connell stumbles upon the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra while in the midst of a battle to claim the area in 1920s Egypt. It ha...

The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans

1992

Adaptation

7.4

In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a B...

Dracula

Dracula

1979

Theatre Play

6.4

Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Count Dracula is a subject of fatal attraction to more than one English maiden lady, as he seek...

The Mummy

The Mummy

1959

Original Film Writer

6.7
Writing

One by one the archaeologists who discover the 4,000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka are brutally murdered. Kharis, high priest in Egypt 40 centuries...

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy

1955

Characters

6.0

Stranded in Egypt, Bud and Lou find themselves in the buried tomb of a living mummy.

The Prisoner of Zenda

The Prisoner of Zenda

1952

Screenplay

6.8
Writing

A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king ...

Red Planet Mars

Red Planet Mars

1952

Writer

4.7
Writing

Husband-and-wife scientists pick up a pie-in-the-sky TV message supposedly from Mars.

The House in the Square

The House in the Square

1951

Theatre Play

6.7

Atomic scientist Peter Standish travels back in time to 1784, an era he has read about in his forefather's diaries. He falls in love with his forefath...

The Mummy's Curse

The Mummy's Curse

1944

Characters

5.5

After being buried in quicksand for the past 25 years, Kharis is set free to roam the rural bayous of Louisiana, as is the soul of his beloved Princes...

The Mummy's Ghost

The Mummy's Ghost

1944

Original Film Writer

5.7
Writing

An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning th...

Gaslight

Gaslight

1944

Screenplay

7.5
Writing

A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.

Stand by for Action

Stand by for Action

1942

Screenplay

6.8
Writing

U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his yach...

Tennessee Johnson

Tennessee Johnson

1942

Screenplay

6.1
Writing

The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early ...

The Mummy's Tomb

The Mummy's Tomb

1942

Original Film Writer

5.6
Writing

A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian...

Smilin' Through

Smilin' Through

1941

Screenplay

6.0
Writing

John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered. He accepts into his house Kath...

Scotland Yard

Scotland Yard

1941

Writer

Writing

Inspector Cork pursues a bank robber who serves in the army and receives facial injuries. After plastic surgery he shows up as a bank president planni...

Victory

Victory

1940

Screenplay

Writing

A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats.

The Mummy's Hand

The Mummy's Hand

1940

Original Film Writer

5.7
Writing

A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving ...

Little Old New York

Little Old New York

1940

Story

4.0
Writing

Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.

The Prisoner of Zenda

The Prisoner of Zenda

1937

Screenplay

7.4
Writing

A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king ...

Beloved Enemy

Beloved Enemy

1936

Screenplay

6.1
Writing

In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks. As wanted Irish rebel leader Dennis Riordan is no...

The Man Who Changed His Mind

The Man Who Changed His Mind

1936

Screenplay

6.0
Writing

Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks lo...

The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss

The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss

1936

Writer

6.9
Writing

A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for a year without touching his inheritance.

The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans

1936

Adaptation

6.3

The story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns—in part—a Huron massacre (with passive French acqu...

Dracula's Daughter

Dracula's Daughter

1936

Story

5.9
Writing

A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.

Mad Love

Mad Love

1935

Screenplay

7.0
Writing

An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which...

Mark of the Vampire

Mark of the Vampire

1935

Writer

6.1
Writing

Sir Borotyn, a prominent Prague resident, is discovered murdered in his home, with all indications pointing to a vampire assault. The victim's friend,...

Bride of Frankenstein

Bride of Frankenstein

1935

Adaptation

7.5

Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experimen...

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

1935

Screenplay

5.5
Writing

A choirmaster addicted to opium and obsessed with a beautiful young woman will stop at nothing to possess her.

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

1935

Screenplay

6.6
Writing

In the Northwest Frontier of India, the 41st Bengal Lancers leaded by the harsh Colonel Tom Stone are having trouble with the rebellious leader Mohamm...

Berkeley Square

Berkeley Square

1933

Theatre Play, Screenplay

5.7
Writing

A young American man is transported back to London in the time shortly after the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.

The Mummy

The Mummy

1932

Screenplay

6.7
Writing

An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when an archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the archaeologists accidentally reads...

Dracula

Dracula

1931

Theatre Play

7.2

British estate agent Renfield travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a castle in London. After Dra...