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Wilson was born and raised Roman Catholic in McAlester, Oklahoma. He began his writing career with short stories for magazines then starting in 1941 he wrote or co-wrote twenty-two screenplays, several of which are legendary and considered some of the finest in the history of film. McAlester is a city located in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. ... This article is in need of attention. ...

His career in Hollywood was interrupted by service with the United States Marine Corps during World War II. In 1952 he was a co-winner of the Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for A Place in the Sun, and in 1953 he won an Edgar Award for his script for 5 Fingers. After he was blacklisted for being a communist, he left for France and worked on scripts for European film productions. He also wrote or collaborated on scripts for Hollywood films without credit or under a pseudonym for much less than the usual fees he was used to before being blacklisted. His screenplay, Friendly Persuasion, was nominated for an Academy Award, but was disqualified because his name did not appear in the credits. Director William Wyler wanted his brother, Robert Wyler, and Jessamyn West credited for rewriting the script, but Wilson disputed this. Wyler then was able under the rules of the blacklist to have one of the few films in history credited to no writer at all. He remained in France with his family for 9 years before returning to the United States. In 1967 he co-authored with Rod Serling the screenplay for Planet of the Apes, based on a novel by Pierre Boulle; the film spawned four sequels, a remake, a live-action television show, and a Saturday-morning cartoon, however only Boulle received screen credit (usually "Based on characters created by Pierre Boulle") in the subsequent incarnations. The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the United States military responsible for providing force projection from the sea,[1] using the mobility of the U.S. Navy to rapidly deliver combined-arms task forces and is one of seven uniformed services. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... The Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States. ... A Place in the Sun is a 1951 film which tells the story of a working class young man who is entangled with two women, one who works in his wealthy uncles factory and the other the daughter of the same uncle. ... The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. ... 5 Fingers is a 1951 film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. ... For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Alias. ... Rodman Edward Rod Serling (December 25, 1924 – June 28, 1975) was an American screenwriter, most famous for his science fiction anthology television series, The Twilight Zone. ... Planet of the Apes is a 1968 science fiction film about an astronaut (Charlton Heston) who finds himself stranded on an Earth-like planet two thousand years in the future. ... Pierre Boulle (20 February 1912 – 30 January 1994) was a French novelist largely known for two famous works, The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) and Planet of the Apes (1963). ...

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While blacklisted, Wilson also wrote the script for Salt of the Earth, a fictionalized account of a real strike by zinc miners in Grant County, New Mexico. The movie was directed by Herbert Biberman and produced by Paul Jarrico both of whom had also been blacklisted by Hollywood. The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. The film has also been preserved by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. For other uses, see Salt of the earth. ... Grant County is a county located in the state of New Mexico. ... Herbert J. Biberman (1900 - 1971) was a US movie director. ... Paul Jarrico (January 12, 1915 – October 28, 1997) was an American screenwriter and film producer who was Blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses during the era of McCarthyism. ... Construction of the Thomas Jefferson Building, from July 8, 1888 to May 15, 1894. ... The National Film Registry is the registry of films selected by the United States National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress. ... This article is about the museum in New York City. ...

Wilson also completed an unproduced screenplay on December 16, 1976, The Raid On Harper's Ferry, which was an adaptation of Truman Nelson's 1973 book The Old Man: John Brown at Harper's Ferry. In a February 1, 1974 letter to Nelson [that is contained in the Truman Nelson papers at Boston University's Howard Gottlieb Archival Research Library], Wilson (writing from his Ojai, California home at 514 Del Norte Road) recalled how he became involved in one of his last screenwriting adaptation projects: For the similarly named institution in Chestnut Hill, see Boston College. ... Downtown Ojai Ojai (pronounced ) is a city in Ventura County, California, United States. ...

On Monday, I began the preparatory work on the screenplay of "Harper's Ferry", based on your book. I want to tell you at the outset how delighted I am with this opportunity. It is without doubt the most promising project to come my way in a decade.

Let me tell you how the project got off the ground. Last summer, after the writer's strike ended, I went to work on a screenplay for Robert Wise, concerning a village in France during the German occupation in 1944. The production was aborted after three months by a studio executive. However, Robert Wise and I established an excellent personal rapport during this experience, and the last thing he said to me was: `Find something else we can do together.'

I found it in your book, thanks to Julian Mayfield, and I shall be eternally grateful to him for leading me to it, for it is a subject close to my heart, and most appropriate as a feature film as we near the Bicentenary. I gave your book to Wise to read and he said: `Let's do it.'

He then had to raise or provide the option money for you and the `seed money' for me to write a screenplay. Times have changed in Hollywood, and one can no longer bring a biography such as yours to a major studio or distributor and hope to make a deal. Nowadays they say: `Show us the screenplay, and if we like it then we'll talk deal.'...

...Finally let me assure you that I think Bob Wise is the best director in Hollywood for this particular picture. Is it necessary that I add that I find myself the best qualified writer for it?

Sincerely,

Michael Wilson. Robert Wise (September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005) was a sound effects editor, film editor, and Academy Award-winning American film producer and director. ...

Besides writing his unproduced screenplay for The Raid On Harper's Ferry, Wilson also apparently wrote unproduced scripts for a movie about the IWW, titled The Wobblies, and for a movie about the infiltration of the Black Liberation Movement, titled Quiet Darkness.

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Credits

Films

• Che! (1969)
• Planet of the Apes (1968)
• The Sandpiper (1965)
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962) (originally uncredited)
• 5 Branded Women (1960) (originally uncredited)
• La Tempesta (movie) (1958) (uncredited)
• The Two-Headed Spy (1958) (originally as James O'Donnell)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) (originally uncredited)
• Friendly Persuasion (1956) (originally uncredited)
• The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955) (uncredited)
• Mannequins für Rio (1954) (uncredited)
• Carnival Story (1954) (uncredited)
• Salt of the Earth (1954)
• 5 Fingers (1952)
• A Place in the Sun (1951)
• It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
• Forty Thieves (1944)
• Bar 20 (1943)
• Colt Comrades (1943)
• Border Patrol (1943)
• The Men in Her Life (1941)

Che! (1969) is a film directed by Richard Fleischer. ... Planet of the Apes is a 1968 science fiction film about an astronaut (Charlton Heston) who finds himself stranded on an Earth-like planet two thousand years in the future. ... The Sandpiper is a 1965 film starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, and directed by Vincente Minnelli. ... Lawrence of Arabia is an award-winning 1962 film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. ... The Bridge on the River Kwai is an Academy Award-winning 1957 World War II war film based on the novel Le Pont de la Rivière Kwaï by French writer Pierre Boulle. ... Friendly Persuasion stars Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins, Richard Eyer, Robert Middleton and Phyllis Love. ... DVD cover for Carnival Story Carnival Story is a 1954 film directed by Kurt Neumann. ... For other uses, see Salt of the earth. ... 5 Fingers is a 1951 film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. ... A Place in the Sun is a 1951 film which tells the story of a working class young man who is entangled with two women, one who works in his wealthy uncles factory and the other the daughter of the same uncle. ... For other uses, see Its a Wonderful Life (disambiguation). ...

Screenplays (unproduced)

• The Raid On Harper's Ferry
• The Wobblies
• Quiet Darkness

Articles

• Planet of the Apes (Magazine) #2, October 1974. P. 48-52, "Michael Wilson: The Other Apes Writer," by David Johnson. An exclusive interview with the co-author of the original Planet of the Apes movie.

External links

• Michael Wilson at the Internet Movie Database