Known For
Writing
Born
Dec 12, 1914
Died
Feb 10, 1987
Place of Birth
Jefferson City, Missouri, USA
Credits
23 titles
William Rose
Biography
William Rose was born in Jefferson City, Missouri, USA, and travelled to Canada at the outbreak of World War II, while the US was still neutral, in order to join up and fight the Nazis. This took him to Britain, where he decided to stay after the war. He spent his demobilisation money on a course in screenwriting, and then became a writer of British and American comedies such as Ladykillers, Genevieve, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, and The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!, as well as more serious films such as Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. He retired to Jersey, where he died in 1987 at the age of 72.
Known For
Filmography
Dhamaal
Original Story
The Ladykillers
Original Film Writer
Made In Ealing: The Story of Ealing Studios
Interviewee
Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks
Screenplay
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Screenplay
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Writer
The Flim-Flam Man
Screenplay
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
Screenplay
Island Splendor
Writer
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Screenplay
Davy
Screenplay
The Smallest Show on Earth
Screenplay
The Man in the Sky
Story
The Ladykillers
Screenplay
Touch and Go
Screenplay
The 'Maggie'
Screenplay
Genevieve
Story
Gift Horse
Adaptation
Song of Paris
Story
I'll Get You for This
Screenplay
My Daughter Joy
Screenplay
Once a Jolly Swagman
Screenplay
Esther Waters
Screenplay