American screenwriter
Edwin J. Burke
Born (1889-08-30 ) August 30, 1889Albany, New York, USA
Died September 26, 1944(1944-09-26) (aged 55)New York City, New York, USA
Other names Edwin Burke Occupation(s) screenwriter and playwrightYears active 1928-1936
Edwin J. Burke (August 30, 1889 – September 26, 1944) was an American screenwriter who was most known for writing some of Shirley Temple 's earlier films.
He won an Academy Award at the 5th Academy Awards in the category of Best Adapted Screenplay for the film Bad Girl .[ 1]
He was also a successful playwright.[ 2]
He wrote the play that inspired the film This Thing Called Love .
Only films that he wrote the screenplay for, not ones that were adapted from his plays-unless he helped write the screenplay to it.
1928–1950
Benjamin Glazer (1928)
Hanns Kräly (1929)
Frances Marion (1930)
Howard Estabrook (1931)
Edwin J. Burke (1932)
Victor Heerman and Sarah Y. Mason (1933)
Robert Riskin (1934)
Dudley Nichols (1935)
Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney (1936)
Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, and Norman Reilly Raine (1937)
Ian Dalrymple , Cecil Arthur Lewis , W. P. Lipscomb , and George Bernard Shaw (1938)
Sidney Howard (1939)
Donald Ogden Stewart (1940)
Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller (1941)
George Froeschel , James Hilton , Claudine West , and Arthur Wimperis (1942)
Philip G. Epstein , Julius J. Epstein , and Howard Koch (1943)
Frank Butler and Frank Cavett (1944)
Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder (1945)
Robert Sherwood (1946)
George Seaton (1947)
John Huston (1948)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1949)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950)
1951–1975 1976–2000 2001–present
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