Dudley Nichols (April 6, 1895 – January 4, 1960) was an American screenwriter who first came to prominence after winning and refusing the screenwriting Oscar for The Informer in 1936. April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). ... 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... January 4 is the 4th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... The Informer is a 1935 dramatic film. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

The reason for Nichols refusel was the fact that the Writers Guild was on strike at the time.

Born in Wapakoneta, Ohio, in all he wrote the screen plays for over sixty movies including such classics as Stagecoach, For Whom The Bell Tolls, Scarlet Street, and The Tin Star. Wapakoneta is a city in and the county seat of Auglaize CountyGR6, Ohio, United States with a population of 9,474 as of the 2000 U.S. census. ... Stagecoach is a 1939 western film, starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne in his breakthrough role. ... For the Bee Gees song, see For Whom The Bell Tolls (Bee Gees song). ... Scarlet Street is an American film noir from 1945. ... The Tin Star is a 1957 American western movie directed by Anthony Mann and starring Henry Fonda and Anthony Perkins, in one of Perkins first roles. ...

Nichols' crowning achievement, though, was probably the screenplay for Bringing Up Baby, considered one of the funniest of the thirties screwball comedies. This movie, directed by the Howard Hawks and starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, was underappreciated on first release but later recognized as a unique classic. Bringing up Baby is a 1938 screwball comedy which tells the story of a scientist who winds up in various predicaments with a woman who has a unique sense of logic and a leopard named Baby. ... Howard Hawks Howard Hawks (May 30, 1896 – December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer and writer of the classic Hollywood era. ... Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an iconic four-time Academy Award-winning American star of film, television and stage, widely recognized for her sharp wit, New England gentility and fierce independence. ... Archibald Alexander Leach (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986), better known by his screen name, Cary Grant, was an British film actor. ...

Dudley Nichols served as President of the Screen Writers Guild during 1937 and 1938. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is the collective bargaining representative, or labor union, for writers in the motion picture and television industries. ...

Nichols has the interesting distinction of being the first artist to refuse an Academy Award (for The Informer), an act followed by George C. Scott and Marlon Brando. The Informer is the title of: The Informer (novel), a 1925 novel by Liam OFlaherty The Informer (1912 movie), directed by D. W. Griffith The Informer (1914 movie), director unknown The Informer (1929 movie), directed by Arthur Robinson The Informer (1935 movie), directed by John Ford; based on the... George C Scott as General Buck Turgidson in Stanley Kubricks George Campbell Scott (October 18, 1927 – September 22, 1999) was a film/stage actor, director, and producer. ... Marlon Brando, Jr. ...

He died in Hollywood from cancer in 1960 and was interred there in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. ... Hollywood Forever Cemetery is located at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard in the Hollywood district of the City of Los Angeles, California. ...

External links

• Dudley Nichols at the Internet Movie Database
• Dudley Nichols' Photo & Gravesite