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Screenwriters

Q: Who wrote the screenplay(s) to A:
What's New, Pussycat? Click to show or hide the answer
The Madness of King George (based on his own stage play The Madness of George III) Click to show or hide the answer
Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter Click to show or hide the answer
The Company of Wolves (1984) – along with Neil Jordan, who also directed; based on her short story of the same title Click to show or hide the answer
Brief Encounter (1945 – based on his 1936 one–act play Still Life) Click to show or hide the answer
Westworld (1973 – also directed) Click to show or hide the answer
Four Weddings and a Funeral Click to show or hide the answer
You Only Live Twice (1967), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) Click to show or hide the answer
Silkwood (1983), When Harry Met Sally (1989); also co–wrote Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and You've Got Mail (1998); died in 2012, aged 71 Click to show or hide the answer
Gosford Park (Best Original Screenplay Oscar, 2002) Click to show or hide the answer
Gone Girl (2015) – based on her own novel Click to show or hide the answer
Won Oscars for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and All the President's Men (1976); also wrote the screenplays for Marathon Man (1974), Magic (1978) and The Princess Bride (1987) – all based on his novels; died in 2018, aged 87 Click to show or hide the answer
The Third Man (and later a novelette based on it) Click to show or hide the answer
Kes (1969 – based on his novel A Kestrel for a Knave) Click to show or hide the answer
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles given co–credit) Click to show or hide the answer
The Misfits (1961 – the last completed film for both Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe) Click to show or hide the answer
Tom Jones (1963) Click to show or hide the answer
The Servant (1963 – based on the novel by Robin Maugham); The Go–Between (1970); Oscar–nominated for The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) Click to show or hide the answer
Gorky Park Click to show or hide the answer
Yentl (co–writer with Barbra Streisand) Click to show or hide the answer
The Magic Christian, Dr. Strangelove, The Cincinnati Kid, Barbarella, Easy Rider (died 1995) Click to show or hide the answer
The Wicker Man, Frenzy, Death on the Nile, Evil Under the Sun Click to show or hide the answer
Rocky I – V, and Rocky Balboa Click to show or hide the answer
True Romance, Natural Born Killers Click to show or hide the answer
Sense and Sensibility (won an Oscar for her adaptation) Click to show or hide the answer
Wrote the first draft of the script for King Kong (December 1931 – January 1932), based on his idea; but died on 10 February 1932, aged 56 (of previously undiagnosed diabetes); the film was released in March 1933 Click to show or hide the answer
Whistle Down the Wind, A Kind of Loving, Torn Curtain, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Click to show or hide the answer
Chariots of Fire Click to show or hide the answer
My Little Chickadee (1940): co–written by W. C. Fields and (also starred) Click to show or hide the answer

Films

Q: Which film was based on … A:
Joseph Conrad's 1902 novel Heart of Darkness Click to show or hide the answer
Dick King–Smith's 1983 novel The Sheep–Pig (published in the USA as Babe the Gallant Pig) Click to show or hide the answer
Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Click to show or hide the answer
Noel Coward's one–act play Still Life Click to show or hide the answer
the stage play Everybody Comes to Rick's Click to show or hide the answer
the book Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella Click to show or hide the answer
War memoirs entitled The Seven Pillars of Wisdom Click to show or hide the answer
Laurence van der Post's novel The Seed and the Sower Click to show or hide the answer
Agatha Christie's 4:05 from Paddington Click to show or hide the answer
Kurosawa film (1954) on which The Magnificent Seven (1960) was based Click to show or hide the answer
1976 film based on Cinderella (Richard Chamberlain, Gemma Craven) Click to show or hide the answer
Kurosawa film based on Shakespeare's Macbeth (English title) Click to show or hide the answer
Eric Ambler's novel The Light of Day Click to show or hide the answer
Arthur C. Clarke's short story The Sentinel Click to show or hide the answer
John Wyndham's The Midwich Cuckoos Click to show or hide the answer

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