Screenwriter, Film Director, Film Producer. One of the most influential, consistent and acclaimed screenwriters during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Born Philip Ives Dunne in New York City, New York to a Roman Catholic family, with a Chicago columnist father and an Olympic golfer mother. After graduating from Harvard University in 1929, he relocated to Hollywood, California for a change in scenery. Not originally interested in a film career, he got his first job as a script reader for Fox Film Corporation (another reader was Leonard Spigelgass). During the 1930s, Dunne worked independently for various major-indie studios (MGM, United Artists, Universal, etc.) until getting a full-time contract with 20th Century-Fox circa 1937, lasting an overall tenure of 25 years. Key films Dunne penned the screenplays for are: "Suez" (1938), "The Rains Came" (1939), "Stanley and Livingstone" (1939), "Johnny Apollo" (1940), "How Green Was My Valley" (1941), "Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942), "Forever Amber" (1947), "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" (1947), "The Luck of the Irish (1948), "Pinky" (1949), "Anne of the Indies (1951), "David and Bathsheba" (1951), " The Robe" (1953), "Demetrius and the Gladiators" (1954), "The Egyptian" (1954), "Wild in the Country"(1961) and "The Agony and the Ecstasy" (1965) among other films. Directors Dunne has worked with include: Michael Curtiz, Elia Kazan, John Ford, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Otto Preminger, Carol Reed, Jacques Tourneur and more. Dunne received two Oscar nominations for Best Screenplay: "How Green Was My Valley" & "David and Bathsheba" Dunne accumulated numerous Writers Guild of America (WGA) awards throughout his career. For his contributions to motion pictures, Dunne has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 6725 Hollywood Blvd. Dunne died from cancer at his home in Malibu. He was 84.