Carl Foreman

Screenwriter

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Also Known As

Pvt. Carl Foreman, Derek Frye

Birth Place

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Born

July 23, 1914

Died

June 26, 1984

Cause of Death

Brain Cancer

Biography

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Wrote several outstanding screenplays for producer Stanley Kramer, including "Home of the Brave" (1949) and "The Men" (1950), before refusing to co-operate with the House Committee on Un-American Activities in the early 1950s. Subsequently blacklisted, Foreman went to England and worked uncredited on "Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957), before beginning his producing career in 1959. His so...

Filmography

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The Victors (1963)

High Noon (2000)

From Screenplay ("High Noon")

High Noon (2000)

When Time Ran Out (1980)

Force Ten From Navarone (1978)

Force Ten From Navarone (1978)

Photos & Videos

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Clay Pigeon, The (1949) -- (Movie Clip) They Should've Let Him Die

Clay Pigeon, The (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Only Man In The Navy

Family & Companions

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Eve Foreman

Wife

In 1992 established a foundation in London to award two $20,000 fellowships each year for young scriptwriters to study in the USA.

Notes

Named a Commander of the British Empire in 1970.

Biography

Wrote several outstanding screenplays for producer Stanley Kramer, including "Home of the Brave" (1949) and "The Men" (1950), before refusing to co-operate with the House Committee on Un-American Activities in the early 1950s. Subsequently blacklisted, Foreman went to England and worked uncredited on "Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957), before beginning his producing career in 1959. His sole directorial effort was "The Victors" (1963), an admirable WWII drama.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

The Victors (1963)

Writer (Feature Film)

High Noon (2000)

From Screenplay ("High Noon")

High Noon (2000)

When Time Ran Out (1980)

Force Ten From Navarone (1978)

Force Ten From Navarone (1978)

Young Winston (1972)

Written for Screen by

Mackenna's Gold (1969)

The Victors (1963)

Written for Screen by

A Hatful of Rain (1957)

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

The Sleeping Tiger (1954)

High Noon (1952)

Cyrano de Bergerac (1951)

Story and Screenplay

Young Man with a Horn (1950)

Dark City (1950)

Contract Writer

The Clay Pigeon (1949)

Story and Screenplay

Champion (1949)

Home of the Brave (1949)

So This Is New York (1948)

Rhythm Parade (1942)

Original Screenplay

Spooks Run Wild (1941)

Original story and Screenplay

Producer (Feature Film)

The Golden Gate Murders (1979)

Executive Producer

Force Ten From Navarone (1978)

Executive Producer

Living Free (1972)

Young Winston (1972)

Living Free (1972)

Executive Producer

The Virgin Soldiers (1970)

The Virgin Soldiers (1970)

Executive Producer

Mackenna's Gold (1969)

Born Free (1966)

Executive Producer

The Victors (1963)

The Guns of Navarone (1961)

The Mouse That Roared (1959)

High Noon (1952)

Associate Producer

Music (Feature Film)

Remembrance (1981)

Sound (Feature Film)

Mackenna's Gold (1969)

Sound Supervisor

Production Companies (Feature Film)

Mackenna's Gold (1969)

The Victors (1963)

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Storm Over the Nile (1956)

Script Consultant

The Constant Husband (1955)

Richard III (1955)

Script Consultant

The Man Who Loved Redheads (1954)

Script Consultant

Writer (Short)

Let's Go to the Movies (1949)

Writer (Uncredited)

Know Your Enemy: Japan (1945)

Life Events

1965

Elected governor of British Film Institute

1968

Elected president of Writer's Guild of Great Britain

Videos

Clay Pigeon, The (1949) -- (Movie Clip) They Should've Let Him Die That’s the old Long Beach Naval Hospital at East 7th St. and Bellflower (site of the VA Hospital now), as we meet Bill Williams as hospitalized Seaman Jim Fletcher, Harold Landon a blind comrade, Ann Doran the nurse and Frank Wilcox the doctor, opening The Clay Pigeon, 1949, from director Richard Fleischer and writer Carl Foreman.

Clay Pigeon, The (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Only Man In The Navy As TCM’s Eddie Muller has noted, just about all viewers would have known that Bill Williams (as Jim, the partial-amnesiac hospital-escapee and suspected traitor sailor) and Barbara Hale (as Martha), who meet here, were husband and wife off screen; good thing and well-played by director Richard Fleischer, in The Clay Pigeon, 1949.

Clay Pigeon, The (1949) -- (Movie Clip) A Shock Of Some Sort The two goons, motives unknown, have just run fugitive amnesiac sailor Jim (Bill Williams) and Martha (Barbara Hale), his hostage, and the widow of the fellow POW who’s death he’s suspected of causing, off the road, and ensuing events incline her to reconsider his story, in The Clay Pigeon, 1949.

Young Man With A Horn (1950) -- (Movie Clip) No Jam Session Rick (Kirk Douglas) meets narrator Smoke (Hoagy Carmichael), at the old Aragon ballroom in Santa Monica, joined by new boss Chandler (Walter Reed) and singer Jo (Doris Day), in Young Man With A Horn, 1950, song by Ray Noble, directed by Michael Curtiz.

High Noon (1952) -- (Movie Clip) They're Making Me Run Ex-Marshal Kane (Gary Cooper) is riding out of Hadleyville, ahead of the return of outlaw Frank Miller, and just married to young Quaker Amy (Grace Kelly), when he has a change of heart, early in Fred Zinneman's High Noon, 1952.

Young Winston (1972) -- (Movie Clip) My American Mother First Simon Ward as the young adult, then Russell Lewis as juvenile Winston Churchill, introducing his mother Jennie (Anne Bancroft) and father Randolph (Robert Shaw), in Richard Attenborough's Young Winston, 1972.

Young Winston (1972) -- (Movie Clip) My Early Life Beginning with the title of the source volume, young Winston Churchill (voiced and portrayed by Simon Ward), begins his narrative of the Northwest Frontier of India, opening Richard Attenborough's Young Winston, 1972.

Home Of The Brave (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Human Coyote Continuing the flashbacks detailing events leading to the mental breakdown of army surveyor Moss (James Edwards), we join him with TJ (Steve Brodie), cartographer Finch (Lloyd Bridges) and Mingo (Frank Lovejoy) on their secret mission on a Japanese-occupied island in WWII, in Home Of The Brave, 1949.

Home Of The Brave (1949) -- (Movie Clip) All Right For A White Man Army psychiatrist Jeff Corey is attempting narcosynthesis, which was a real experimental hypnosis technique, to try to help amnesiac paralyzed soldier Moss (James Edwards), recalling high school, where he first met comrade Finch (Lloyd Bridges), whom he doesn’t realize is dead, in producer Stanley Kramer’s Home Of The Brave, 1949.

Home Of The Brave (1949) -- (Movie Clip) I Wouldn't Care If He Was Purple In flashback, Major Robinson (Douglas Dick) briefing his team (Steve Brodie, Lloyd Bridges, Frank Lovejoy) about a difficult survey mission in the Pacific during WWII, when they meet their new man Moss (James Edwards), prompting a call to the colonel (Cliff Clark), in producer Stanley Kramer’s Home Of The Brave, 1949.

Bridge On The River Kwai, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) He's Done It! Triumphal moment from director David Lean, as Col. Nicholson (Alec Guinnes) is summoned from "The Oven" by Japanese prison-camp commandant Saito (Sessue Hayakawa), who agrees to exempt British officers from manual labor, in The Bridge On The River Kwai, 1957.

Bridge On The River Kwai, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Colonel Bogey March The British prisoners led by Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) enter the Japanese prison camp in Burma whistling the jaunty Colonel Bogey March, in a famous early moment from David Lean's The Bridge On The River Kwai, 1957.

Young Man with a Horn - (Original Trailer) A young trumpet player (Kirk Douglas) is torn between an honest singer (Doris Day) and a manipulative heiress (Lauren Bacall) in Young Man with a Horn (1950).

Cyrano de Bergerac (1951) - (Original Trailer) The Best Actor award went to Jose Ferrer for his portrayal of Cyrano de Bergerac (1951).

Spooks Run Wild - (Original Trailer) The East Side Kids meet Bela Lugosi in a haunted house in Spooks Run Wild (1941).

Family

Jonathan Foreman

Son

Attorney.

Companions

Eve Foreman

Wife

In 1992 established a foundation in London to award two $20,000 fellowships each year for young scriptwriters to study in the USA.

Bibliography

Notes

Named a Commander of the British Empire in 1970.

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