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Nedrick Young is a Actor and Scriptwriter American born on 23 march 1914 at Philadelphia (USA)

Nedrick Young

Nedrick Young
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Nationality USA
Birth 23 march 1914 at Philadelphia (USA)
Death 16 september 1968 (at 54 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Awards Writers Guild of America Award, Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay

Nedrick Young (March 23, 1914 – September 16, 1968) was a screenwriter often blacklisted during the 1950s and 1960s. He is credited with writing the screenplay for Jailhouse Rock in 1957, which starred Elvis Presley.

Young was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In addition to screenwriting, he also took on an acting role in various feature-length films during the period 1943–1966.

Young died from a heart attack at the age of 54.

Biography

Nedrick Young fait des études à l'Université Temple à Philadelphie, mais il doit les arrêter prématurément en 1931 à la mort de son père. Il devient alors acteur, au théâtre à Broadway et au cinéma. Après la guerre, il obtient des premiers rôles dans des films de série B et commence à écrire des scénarios. Il est ensuite pris sous contrat comme acteur par la Warner.

Un jour il est cité à comparaître devant la Commission sur les activités non-américaines, mais invoque le 5e amendement pour refuser de dire s'il est communiste. Warner dès lors ne renouvelle pas son contrat et il se retrouve alors obligé à prendre de petits boulots, barman ou vendeur de bagages.

À la fin des années 1950, il écrit le scénario de La Chaîne, avec Harold Jacob Smith, mais est obligé de le faire sous le pseudonyme de Nathan E. Douglas, et c'est sous ce nom qu'il viendra chercher son Oscar.

Il tentera, avec d'autres, de faire condamner la Motion Picture Association of America et diverses sociétés de production et de distribution pour violation de la loi anti-trust, mais sans succès.

En 1993, sa veuve, Elizabeth MacRae , demande que soit rétabli son nom dans les nominations et les récompenses aux Oscars. Elle obtient satisfaction en juin de la même année.

Best films

The Train (1964)
(Scriptwriter)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
(Writer)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Nedrick Young (35 films)

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Actor

Seconds
Seconds (1966)
, 1h40
Directed by John Frankenheimer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Actors Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, John Randolph, Will Geer, Richard Anderson, Jeff Corey
Roles Henry Bushman
Rating75% 3.797163.797163.797163.797163.79716
The film is an expressionistic, part-horror, part-thriller, part-science fiction film about the obsession with eternal youth and misplaced faith in the ability of medical science to achieve it.
The Defiant Ones, 1h37
Directed by Stanley Kramer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Buddy films, Chase films
Actors Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel, Cara Williams, Charles McGraw, King Donovan
Roles Prison Guard
Rating75% 3.79593.79593.79593.79593.7959
The film starts with a truck driving at night. It swerves to miss another truck and crashes through a barrier. The rescuers clear up the debris and cover the people killed... mainly prisoners in the back. It is revealed that two are missing: a black man shackled to a white man, because "the warden had a sense of humor". They are told not to look too hard as "they will probably kill each other in the first five miles". Nevertheless a large posse and many bloodhounds are dispatched the next morning to find them.
Terror in a Texas Town, 1h20
Directed by Joseph H. Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors Sterling Hayden, Sebastian Cabot, Nedrick Young, Victor Millan, Hank Patterson, Frank Ferguson
Roles Johnny Crale
Rating67% 3.3966253.3966253.3966253.3966253.396625
The wealthy McNeil wants to control Prairie City and the land around it. He tries to burn out small ranchers and then hires gunfighter Johnny Crale to run them off.
Crime Wave
Crime Wave (1954)
, 1h13
Directed by André de Toth
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk, Ted de Corsia, Charles Bronson, Jay Novello
Roles Gat Morgan
Rating72% 3.6454953.6454953.6454953.6454953.645495
'Doc' Penny (Ted de Corsia) and his gang rob a gasoline station and in the process a police officer is killed and one of the gang members is wounded. The wounded thug imposes himself on Steve Lacey (Gene Nelson), an ex-con trying to start a new life, and demands he call a disreputable doctor for help. The doctor arrives, but too late. The gang member is dead. After his death, Lacey calls his parole officer who involves a hard-nosed cop, Detective Lieutenant Sims (Sterling Hayden), who doesn't think he can reform.
Riding Shotgun, 1h13
Directed by André de Toth
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Randolph Scott, Wayne Morris, Wayne Morris (acteur britannique), Joan Weldon, Charles Bronson, Joe Sawyer
Roles Manning
Rating63% 3.194933.194933.194933.194933.19493
Stagecoach guard Larry Delong is ambushed by a gang of outlaws associated with a man he's searching for, Dan Marady, who murdered Delong's sister and nephew. But when he returns to the town of Deep Water, nearly everyone there believes that Delong was involved in the holdup, in which the stage driver was killed.
Captain Scarlett, 1h15
Directed by Thomas Carr
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Actors Richard Greene, Leonora Amar, Nedrick Young, Eduardo Noriega, Isabel del Puerto
Roles Pierre DuCloux
Rating46% 2.324632.324632.324632.324632.32463
After his estate is confistcated, returning soldier Captain Scarlett rescues Princess Maria from being abducted while travelling. She's not exactly grateful. He finds out that she is to be married to a man she doesn't like, so Captain Scarlet attempts to help her but winds up in prison for his efforts. He escapes and finally helps the reluctant bride who winds up joining Captain Scarlett and his sidekick and they become something along the lines of the three musketeers.
The Eddie Cantor Story, 1h55
Directed by Alfred E. Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Keefe Brasselle, Marilyn Erskine, Aline MacMahon, Marie Windsor, Ann Doran, Gerald Mohr
Roles Jack
Rating56% 2.812012.812012.812012.812012.81201
Raised by his grandmother on New York's East Side, 13-year-old Eddie sings while another neighborhood kid, Rocky Kramer, and his gang pick pockets. Eddie is sent by Grandma Esther to a boys camp, where he entertains the others with his songs and routines.
House of Wax, 1h24
Directed by André de Toth
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Horror, Crime
Actors Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Charles Bronson, Carolyn Jones, Phyllis Kirk, Paul Picerni
Roles Leon Averill (uncredited)
Rating69% 3.4988353.4988353.4988353.4988353.498835
Professor Henry Jarrod (Vincent Price) is a talented wax figure sculptor with a museum in 1890s New York. He specializes in historical figures, featuring sculptures of John Wilkes Booth, Joan of Arc, and one of Marie Antoinette, which he considers his masterpiece. When his business partner Matthew Burke (Roy Roberts) demands more sensational exhibits to increase profits, Jarrod refuses. Jarrod then gives a private tour to renowned art critic Sidney Wallace. Wallace, deeply impressed with Jarrod's sculptures, agrees to buy Burke out but will not be able to do so until after he returns from a continental trip.
She's Back on Broadway
Directed by Gordon Douglas
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Virginia Mayo, Gene Nelson, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Coates, Patrice Wymore, Larry Keating
Roles Rafferty
Rating58% 2.9067452.9067452.9067452.9067452.906745
When Catherine Terris's career in Hollywood hits the skids, she heads back to the site of her first great triumphs...Broadway! She takes the lead in a play which is being directed by Rick Sommers, the man who was both her Svengali and her lover. Sommers is still bitter that she walked out on him to become the toast of Hollywood years earlier. Can Terris and Sommers put aside their mutual animosity long enough to make a go of this production. The way things start off, it doesn't seem likely...
The Iron Mistress, 1h50
Directed by Gordon Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Historical, Romance, Western
Actors Alan Ladd, Virginia Mayo, Joseph Calleia, Phyllis Kirk, Alf Kjellin, Anthony Caruso
Roles Henri Contrecourt
Rating61% 3.0946753.0946753.0946753.0946753.094675
In the early 19th Century, Jim Bowie leaves his home in the Bayou to sell lumber in New Orleans. He inadvertently offends Narcisse de Bornay by defending the artist James Audubon and is challenged to his duel, but charms his way out of it and Narcisse becomes his friend.
Retreat, Hell!, 1h34
Directed by Joseph H. Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Frank Lovejoy, Richard Carlson, Anita Louise, Russ Tamblyn, Nedrick Young, Robert Ellis
Roles Sgt. Novak
Rating63% 3.1947453.1947453.1947453.1947453.194745
A Marine battalion is assembled from various sources and sent to Korea. The film depicts the formation and training of the battalion, the amphibious landing at the Battle of Inchon, the advance through North Korea, and the Winter Chinese Communist Offensive sends the Marines into a fighting withdrawal to the staging area at Hŭngnam Harbor "...with rifles, grenades, bayonets, our bare fists if we have to" (quoting the battalion commander).
Springfield Rifle, 1h29
Directed by André de Toth
Origin USA
Genres War, Action, Western
Themes Political films
Actors Gary Cooper, Phyllis Thaxter, David Brian, Paul Kelly, Lon Chaney, Jr., Philip Carey
Roles Sgt. Poole (uncredited)
Rating65% 3.2942653.2942653.2942653.2942653.294265
Charged with wartime cowardice, Major Lex Kearney is drummed out of the Union Army with a dishonorable discharge. His disgrace is complete, wife Erin even informing him that their ashamed son has run away.