John Gay

Screenwriter

Biography

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Through his amazing knack for storytelling, screenwriter John Gay brought to life many memorable worlds and characters for the big screen. He was nominated for an Academy Award for "Separate Tables" in 1958. He followed this recognition with scripts for "The Happy Thieves" (1962) and "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" (1962). John Gay more recently wrote "Summer of Fear" (CBS, 199...

Filmography

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On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

Summer of Fear (1996)

Trick of the Eye (1994)

Opera Zebracka (1991)

Play As Source Material

Shadow of a Doubt (1991)

Final Notice (1989)

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Courtship Of Eddie's Father, The (1963) -- (Movie Clip) Liquor Won't Solve Anything

Courtship Of Eddie's Father, The (1963) -- (Movie Clip) I've Seen Too Many Rosalind Russell Pictures

Biography

Through his amazing knack for storytelling, screenwriter John Gay brought to life many memorable worlds and characters for the big screen. He was nominated for an Academy Award for "Separate Tables" in 1958. He followed this recognition with scripts for "The Happy Thieves" (1962) and "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" (1962). John Gay more recently wrote "Summer of Fear" (CBS, 1995-96).

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

Writer (Feature Film)

Summer of Fear (1996)

Trick of the Eye (1994)

Opera Zebracka (1991)

Play As Source Material

Shadow of a Doubt (1991)

Final Notice (1989)

Inherit The Wind (1988)

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987)

Six Against the Rock (1987)

Manhunt For Claude Dallas (1986)

Samson and Delilah (1984)

The Long Summer of George Adams (1982)

Witness for the Prosecution (1982)

Piano For Mrs. Cimino (1982)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1982)

Berlin Tunnel 21 (1981)

The Bunker (1981)

Stand By Your Man (1981)

Dial M For Murder (1981)

TALE OF TWO CITIES, A (1980)

A Private Battle (1980)

Transplant (1979)

Les Miserables (1978)

Captains Courageous (1977)

Golden Rendezvous (1977)

Writer (Adaptation)

Golden Rendezvous (1977)

Kill Me If You Can (1977)

A Matter of Time (1976)

Adventures of the Queen (1975)

Hennessy (1975)

The Chadwick Family (1974)

Things in Their Season (1974)

The Red Badge of Courage (1974)

The Chadwick Family (1974)

My Darling Daughters' Anniversary (1973)

Pocket Money (1972)

All My Darling Daughters (1972)

Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)

Soldier Blue (1970)

The Power (1968)

No Way To Treat a Lady (1968)

The Last Safari (1967)

Texas Across the River (1966)

Uncredited Screenplay collab

The Hallelujah Trail (1965)

The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963)

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)

Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)

The Happy Thieves (1961)

Run Silent Run Deep (1958)

Separate Tables (1958)

Music (Feature Film)

The Female Bunch (1971)

Writer (TV Mini-Series)

Trial: The Price of Passion (1992)

The Burden of Proof (1992)

Cruel Doubt (1992)

Blind Faith (1990)

Around the World in 80 Days (1989)

Windmills Of The Gods (1988)

Doubletake (To Be Deleted) (1985)

Fatal Vision (1984)

The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977)

Life Events

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Courtship Of Eddie's Father, The (1963) -- (Movie Clip) Liquor Won't Solve Anything First evening with new housekeeper Mrs Livingston (Roberta Sherwood), learning Spanish, Glenn Ford as newly-widowed Tom doing fine, discussing Elizabeth (Shirley Jones) and plausibly dazzled by her first appearance, Ronny Howard (title character) delighted too, early in Vincente Minnelli’s The Courtship Of Eddie’s Father, 1963.

Courtship Of Eddie's Father, The (1963) -- (Movie Clip) I've Seen Too Many Rosalind Russell Pictures Their double-dates reversed at the bowling alley, New York radio host Norm (Jerry Van Dyke) with ingenuous Montanan Dolly (Stella Stevens) and his widower boss Tom (Glenn Ford) with the dignified, fetching professional fashion consultant Rita (Dina Merrill), in The Courtship Of Eddie’s Father, 1963.

Courtship Of Eddie's Father, The (1963) -- (Movie Clip) Very Fond Of My Pectoral Girdle After his new year’s party and unsatisfactory outcomes with two other prospects, Tom (Glenn Ford) meets divorceè neighbor Elizabeth (Shirley Jones) wrapping up her date, and they break new ground together, baby-sitting Mrs. Livingston (Roberta Sherwood) pretending sleep, in The Courtship Of Eddie’s Father, 1963.

Courtship of Eddie's Father, The (1963) -- (Movie Clip) It's Indelible Newly-widowed dad Tom Corbett (Glenn Ford) has to locate his son Eddie (Ronny Howard) in the apartment on the first day back to school in The Courtship of Eddie's Father, 1963.

Power, The (1968) -- (Movie Clip) He Won't Expose Himself! Nordlund (Michael Rennie), supervisor from the Pentagon, is intrigued because Hallson (Arthur O’Connell) claims that someone on the committee (including Earl Holliman, Richard Carlson, Suzanne Pleshette, Nehemiah Persoff and George Hamilton as Tanner), has the power to take over using mind-control, in The Power, 1968.

Power, The (1968) -- (Movie Clip) Something Light And Bubbly Scientist Tanner (George Hamilton) disagrees but Margery (Suzanne Pleshette) insists that they follow-up when the wife of Hallson (Arthur O’Connell), colleague in their pain-tolerance research project, whom we know has been killed via mind-control, calls to say he hasn’t come home, in The Power, 1968.

Power, The (1968) -- (Movie Clip) Is The Pain Really That Intense? Opening with the arrival of U.S. Navy supervisor Nordlund (Michael Rennie) at a California lab where they apparently test subjects’ tolerance for pain, George Hamilton as Tanner, scientist in charge, in The Power, 1968, from producer George Pal, from a novel by Frank M. Robinson.

Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) -- Bungo Straits Clark Gable is featured in director Robert Wise’s then-unusual “cold” open, his submarine taken down in the Pacific during WWII, setting the stage for the revenge drama, produced by co-star Burt Lancaster’s HHL productions, Run Silent, Run Deep, 1958.

Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) -- (Movie Clip) To A Dead Crew! Crew of the Nerka (Jack Warden, Brad Dexter, et al) stands by as Commander Richardson (Clark Gable) ducks a Japanese convoy, and is challenged by his "Exec" Bledsoe (Burt Lancaster), in Robert Wise's Run Silent, Run Deep, 1958.

Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) -- (Movie Clip) The Japs Must've Known! Commander Richardson (Clark Gable) on the bridge, sends Bledsoe (Burt Lancaster) below, launching the big confrontation with his nemesis the Japanese "Akikaze," in Robert Wise's Run Silent, Run Deep, 1958.

Happy Thieves, The (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Marriage Is For The Insecure At the Madrid airport, Eve (Rita Hayworth) is about to smuggle a stolen Velazquez painting through customs, Rex Harrison, the actual thief, is standing by in support, distracted by his friend (Virgilio Teixeira), a famous matador with romantic problems, in The Happy Thieves, 1961.

Happy Thieves, The (1961) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Trying To Be Dishonest On the train to Madrid, hotelier and art thief Jim (Rex Harrison) with cohort Eve (Rita Hayworth), whom he’s just married, partly in order to keep her on task, discussing morality and receiving duplicitous employee Elek (Julia Pena), whom he’d claimed was dead, in The Happy Thieves, 1961.

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