Michael Wilson
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Michael Wilson (July 1, 1914 – April 9, 1978) was an American screenwriter who was banned by the Hollywood film studios during McCarthyism's prohibition for being a communist.
Personal life
Michael Wilson married Zelma Gussin in 1941; the couple had two children. Sylvia, Zelma's sister, was married to another blacklisted screenwriter, Paul Jarrico. Michael Wilson died in 1978 in Los Angeles County, California, after suffering from a heart attack.
Life and career
Wilson was born and raised Roman Catholic in McAlester, Oklahoma. He graduated from UC Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1936 and did post-graduate fellowship work between 1937 and 1939. He studied English and started writing short stories for magazines. He wrote or co-wrote 22 screenplays since 1941, including 1941.
Wilson appeared on The Men in Her Life (1941), alongside Loretta Young.
He served in some William Boyd westerns, Border Patrol (1943), Colt Comrades (1943), Bar 20 (1943), and Forty Thieves (1944).
Wilson's film career was shattered by World War II service with the US Marine Corps.
He became a contract writer with Liberty Films in 1945, and he was featured (uncredited) on such films as It's a Wonderful Life (1946).
He received an Edgar Award and another Oscar nomination for his script for 5 Fingers (1953).
Wilson was listed as an unfriendly witness by the House Un-American Activities Committee and blacklisted for being a communist. After being blacklisted, he moved to France and worked on scripts for the European film industry.
Wilson, a blacklisted writer, wrote Salt of the Earth (1954), a fictionalized account of a real strike by zinc miners in Grant County, New Mexico. Herbert Biberman and Paul Jarrico produced the film, both of whom had also been blacklisted. The film has been designated by the United States Library of Congress as "culturally significant" and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry and National Film Registry and National Film Registry.
He wrote or coauthored scripts for Hollywood films without credit or under a pseudonym for much less than his usual price before being blacklisted; They Were Young (1954), for William Arthur Lean (1954), and Lawrence of Arabia (1962) for Spiegel and Lean.
Friendly Persuasion's screenplay was nominated for an Academy Award, but it was disqualified because his name did not appear in the credits. William Wyler wanted his brother, Robert Wyler, and Jessamyn West for rewriting the script, but Wilson denied this. Wyler was able to have one of the few films in history credited to no writer at all.
Wilson and Carl Foreman worked on The Bridge on the River Kwai separately, but when all of them were blacklisted, the official credit went to Pierre Boulle, whose book was based, even though Boulle did not even speak English.
Wilson and his family remained in France for nine years before returning to Ojai, California, in 1964.
Wilson continued to write screenplays, including for The Sandpiper (1965), Planet of the Apes (1968), and Che! (1969). Planet of the Apes was based on a book by Pierre Boulle; only Boulle was given screen credit; only Boulle was given screen credit.
In 1975, Michael Wilson was named Laurel Award by the Writer Guild of America, and in 1984, he was given his second Academy Award for his book The Bridge on the River Kwai.
Wilson was nominated by the academy's board of directors as a co-writer of Lawrence of Arabia and acknowledged as the winner of the Best British Dramatic Screenplay Award in 1995.
Wilson also completed The Old Man's Ferry, an unproduced screenplay based on Truman J. Nelson's book The Old Man (1976) at Harper's Ferry (1973). He also wrote unproduced scripts for a film about the Industrial Workers of the World named The Wobblies and a documentary about the Black Liberation Movement's infiltration. Quiet Darkness is a black writer who wrote the following: