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Screenwriter Biographies
Every archived life recorded as screenwriter, ordered by their place in the ledger.
Modern era
Joseph Poon
b. 1935
Taiwanese film director, screenwriter and producer
Contemporary era
Jean Chalopin
b. May 31, 1950
French film producer and director
Heather Morgan
American actor and comedian
Modern era
Lennart Meri
March 29, 1929 – March 14, 2006
Estonian writer, filmmaker and politician; President of Estonia in 1992–2001 (1929-2006)
Modern era
Margrethe II of Denmark
b. April 16, 1940
Queen of Denmark from 1972 to 2024 (born 1940)
Modern era
Franklin D. Roosevelt
January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945
President of the United States from 1933 to 1945 (1882–1945)
Contemporary era
Bilal Lashari
b. 4 August 1984
Pakistani filmmaker who directed Waar and The Legend of Maula Jatt, the highest-grossing Pakistani film
Modern era
Hedy Lamarr
November 9, 1914 – January 19, 2000
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
Modern era
Thomas Hardy
June 2, 1840 – January 11, 1928
English novelist and poet (1840–1928)
Modern era
Bertolt Brecht
February 10, 1898 – August 14, 1956
German poet, playwright, and theatre director (1898–1956)
Modern era
Jean-Paul Sartre
June 21, 1905 – April 15, 1980
French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
Modern era
Aldous Huxley
July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963
English writer and philosopher (1894–1963)
Modern era
Agatha Christie
September 15, 1890 – January 12, 1976
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
Modern era
Roald Dahl
September 13, 1916 – November 23, 1990
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
Modern era
Ernest Hemingway
July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
Modern era
F. Scott Fitzgerald
September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940
American writer (1896–1940)
Modern era
John Steinbeck
February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968
American writer (1902–1968)
Modern era
William Faulkner
September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962
American writer (1897-1962)
Modern era
Tennessee Williams
March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983
American playwright (1911–1983)
Modern era
Arthur Miller
October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005
American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)
Modern era
Samuel Beckett
April 13, 1906 – December 22, 1989
Irish writer (1906–1989)
Modern era
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
December 11, 1918 – August 3, 2008
Russian writer, publicist, poet and politician (1918–2008)
Modern era
Harper Lee
April 28, 1926 – February 19, 2016
American novelist (1926–2016)
Modern era
Kurt Vonnegut
November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007
American author (1922–2007)
Modern era
Ray Bradbury
August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012
American author and screenwriter (1920–2012)
Modern era
Arthur C. Clarke
December 16, 1917 – March 19, 2008
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
Modern era
Jorge Luis Borges
August 24, 1899 – June 14, 1986
Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator (1899–1986)
Modern era
Isabel Allende
b. August 2, 1942
Chilean writer (born 1942)
Modern era
Naguib Mahfouz
December 11, 1911 – August 30, 2006
Egyptian writer (1911–2006)
Contemporary era
Andrew Lloyd Webber
b. March 22, 1948
British theatre composer (born 1948)
Modern era
John Glenn
July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016
American astronaut and politician (1921–2016)
Modern era
Charlie Chaplin
April 16, 1889 – December 25, 1977
Silent-film genius whose Tramp became cinema's first icon
Modern era
Orson Welles
May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985
American actor and filmmaker (1915–1985)
Modern era
Akira Kurosawa
March 23, 1910 – September 6, 1998
Japanese filmmaker (1910–1998)
Modern era
Federico Fellini
January 20, 1920 – October 31, 1993
Italian filmmaker (1920–1993)
Modern era
Ingmar Bergman
July 14, 1918 – July 30, 2007
Swedish director and screenwriter (1918–2007)
Modern era
Martin Scorsese
b. November 17, 1942
American filmmaker (born 1942)
Modern era
Francis Ford Coppola
b. April 7, 1939
American filmmaker (born 1939)
Contemporary era
Quentin Tarantino
b. March 27, 1963
American filmmaker and actor (born 1963)
Contemporary era
James Cameron
b. August 16, 1954
Canadian filmmaker and explorer (born 1954)
Contemporary era
Christopher Nolan
b. July 30, 1970
English-American filmmaker (born 1970)
Modern era
Hayao Miyazaki
b. January 5, 1941
Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka (born 1941)
Modern era
Humphrey Bogart
December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957
American actor (1899–1957)
Modern era
Jack Nicholson
b. April 22, 1937
American actor and filmmaker (born 1937)
Contemporary era
Jim Carrey
b. January 17, 1962
Canadian-American actor and comedian (born 1962)
Contemporary era
Leonardo DiCaprio
b. November 11, 1974
American actor and producer (born 1974)
Contemporary era
Jackie Chan
b. April 7, 1954
Hong Kong actor and martial artist (born 1954)
Contemporary era
Shah Rukh Khan
b. November 2, 1965
Indian actor, producer and television personality
Contemporary era
Chadwick Boseman
November 29, 1976 – August 28, 2020
American actor (1976–2020)
Modern era
Roger Waters
b. September 6, 1943
English musician, co-founder of Pink Floyd (born 1943)
Contemporary era
Kobe Bryant
August 23, 1978 – January 26, 2020
American basketball player (1978–2020)
Contemporary era
LeBron James
b. December 30, 1984
American basketball player (born 1984)
Modern era
Wilt Chamberlain
August 21, 1936 – October 12, 1999
American basketball player (1936–1999)
Modern era
Saadat Hasan Manto
May 11, 1912 – January 18, 1955
Indo-Pakistani novelist, playwright and writer (1912-1955)
Contemporary era
Javed Akhtar
b. January 17, 1945
Indian writer, poet and lyricist
Modern era
Gulzar
b. August 19, 1933
Indian poet, lyricist and author (1933- Present)
Modern era
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
September 15, 1876 – January 16, 1938
Bengali novelist and short story writer (1876-1938)
Contemporary era
Humayun Ahmed
November 13, 1948 – July 19, 2012
Author, poet, dramatist and film director (1948–2012)
Modern era
Ismat Chughtai
August 21, 1911 – October 24, 1991
Indian writer (1911-1991)
Modern era
Krishan Chander
November 23, 1914 – March 8, 1977
Indian writer (1914–1977)