Post by Richard Kimble on Apr 22, 2017 1:21:30 GMT
A number of actors have one "vanity project" credit
Robert Mitchum gets a story credit on Thunder Road. Before entering films he had written the text for an oratorio (whatever that is) that was performed at the Hollywood Bowl. Around the same time he apparently wrote a play that was critiqued by no less than Eugene O'Neill; Mitchum said the playscript was covered in O'Neill's handwritten comments
Jack Nicholson co-wrote the script of the Monkees movie Head and the cult western Ride In The Whirlwind. He definitely showed some talent for it, don't know why he chose not to pursue it after he became a star.
Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen got story credit for Take Me Out To The Ball Game, while John Gilbert got same for Downstairs. I think Gilbert may have started in Hollywood as a writer.
Burt Lancaster co-wrote The Midnight Man.
Alec Guinness scripted The Horse's Mouth
Errol Flynn fancied himself a writer and got a script credit on The Adventures of Captain Fabian
Tough guy Leo Gordon wrote a number of TV western scripts as well as the WWII actioner Tobruk
I heard a podcast with character actor L.Q. Jones where he claimed to have written 20% of Battle Cry (1955), and that he went on to have a second career as a script polisher, especially for TV westerns. But he has only two official script credits.
Robert Mitchum gets a story credit on Thunder Road. Before entering films he had written the text for an oratorio (whatever that is) that was performed at the Hollywood Bowl. Around the same time he apparently wrote a play that was critiqued by no less than Eugene O'Neill; Mitchum said the playscript was covered in O'Neill's handwritten comments
Jack Nicholson co-wrote the script of the Monkees movie Head and the cult western Ride In The Whirlwind. He definitely showed some talent for it, don't know why he chose not to pursue it after he became a star.
Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen got story credit for Take Me Out To The Ball Game, while John Gilbert got same for Downstairs. I think Gilbert may have started in Hollywood as a writer.
Burt Lancaster co-wrote The Midnight Man.
Alec Guinness scripted The Horse's Mouth
Errol Flynn fancied himself a writer and got a script credit on The Adventures of Captain Fabian
Tough guy Leo Gordon wrote a number of TV western scripts as well as the WWII actioner Tobruk
I heard a podcast with character actor L.Q. Jones where he claimed to have written 20% of Battle Cry (1955), and that he went on to have a second career as a script polisher, especially for TV westerns. But he has only two official script credits.
