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American male screenwriters

  • Alfred HitchcockOn the 13th of August 1899, a boy named Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in the flat above his parents' greengrocer shop at 517 High Road in Leytonstone.
  • Stephen KingStephen Edwin King was born on the 21st of September 1947 in Portland, Maine. His father Donald Edwin King worked as a traveling vacuum salesman after…
  • Simon KinbergSimon David Kinberg arrived in Hammersmith, London, on the 2nd of August 1973. His parents were American citizens who moved him to Los Angeles when he was…
  • Derek ConnollyDerek Connolly was born around 1976 in the United States. He grew up in Miami, Florida, where he attended Miami Palmetto Senior High School.
  • Martin ScorseseMartin Scorsese was born on the 17th of November 1942 in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens. He grew up in the Little Italy section of Manhattan where his…
  • Woody AllenAllan Stewart Konigsberg was born on the 30th of November 1935 at Mount Eden Hospital in Bronx, New York City. He grew up in Brooklyn's Midwood neighborhood…
  • Ernest HemingwayErnest Miller Hemingway was born on the 21st of July 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. He grew up as the second of six children to Clarence Edmonds Hemingway and…
  • Matthew Robinson (writer)Matthew Robinson was born on the 26th of May 1978. He first gained attention as a member of The Trilambs, a satirical hip-hop group.
  • Orson WellesGeorge Orson Welles was born the 6th of May 1915, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. His father Richard Head Welles made a fortune inventing a bicycle lamp before…
  • Steven SpielbergSteven Allan Spielberg was born on the 18th of December 1946, in Cincinnati, Ohio. His mother Leah Adler ran a kosher dairy restaurant and played concert…
  • Tennessee WilliamsThomas Lanier Williams III arrived in Columbus, Mississippi on the 26th of March 1911. He was the second child born to Edwina Dakin and Cornelius Coffin…
  • Quentin TarantinoQuentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee on the 27th of March 1963. His father Tony Tarantino left the family before his son's birth.
  • David LynchDavid Keith Lynch was born at St. Patrick's Hospital in Missoula, Montana, on the 20th of January 1946. His father worked as a USDA research scientist and…
  • Stanley KubrickStanley Kubrick was born on the 26th of July 1928 in New York City's Manhattan borough. He grew up in the Bronx with his parents, Jack and Sadie Kubrick, who…
  • Wes AndersonWesley Wales Anderson was born on the 1st of May 1969, in Houston, Texas. His father worked in advertising and public relations while his mother was a…
  • George LucasGeorge Walton Lucas Jr. was born on the 14th of May 1944 in Modesto, California. He grew up as the son of Dorothy Ellinore Lucas and George Walton Lucas Sr.
  • Christopher NolanChristopher Edward Nolan was born on the 30th of July 1970 in Westminster, London. His father Brendan James Nolan worked as a creative director for an…
  • William FaulknerWilliam Cuthbert Faulkner was born on the 25th of September 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi. He grew up in Oxford, a town where his family lived for most of…
  • Kevin SmithKevin Patrick Smith was born on the 2nd of August 1970, in Red Bank, New Jersey. He grew up in the nearby clamming town of Highlands as the son of Grace and…
  • Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis on the 11th of November 1922. He descended from a long line of German Americans whose family fortune rested on the…
  • Andy WarholAndrew Warhola Jr. arrived in the world on the 6th of August 1928 within a working-class home at 55 Beelen Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  • Stephen ColbertOn the 11th of September 1974, a ten-year-old boy named Stephen Colbert stood in the living room of his family home on James Island.
  • Raymond ChandlerRaymond Thornton Chandler arrived in Chicago on the 23rd of July 1888. His mother Florence Dart was originally from Ireland, and his father Maurice Benjamin…
  • Roger EbertRoger Joseph Ebert was born on the 18th of June 1942 in Urbana, Illinois. He grew up as the only child of Annabel and Walter Harry Ebert.
  • Elia KazanElias Kazantzoglou entered the world on the 7th of September 1909 in the Kadıköy district of Constantinople. His parents were Cappadocian Greeks originally…
  • Tom HanksThomas Jeffrey Hanks arrived in the world on the 9th of July 1956 inside a hospital in Concord, California. His mother Janet Marylyn worked as a hospital…
  • Bruce Leethe 27th of November 1940 marked the arrival of Lee Jun-fan in San Francisco. His parents traveled to California for an international opera tour when he was…
  • Irving ThalbergIrving Thalberg was born with a heart condition so severe that doctors predicted he would die before turning thirty, yet he went on to become the most…
  • William WylerWilli Wyler was born on the 1st of July, 1902, in Mulhouse, Alsace-Lorraine. His father Leopold ran a thriving haberdashery business there.
  • Ralph BakshiRalph Bakshi was born on the 29th of October 1938, in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine. His family moved to the United States in 1939 and settled in the…
  • Terrence MalickTerrence Malick was born on the 30th of November 1943 in Ottawa, Illinois. His father Emil worked as a geologist and his mother Irene came from an Irish…
  • Will SmithWillard Carroll Smith II arrived in the world on the 25th of September 1968. He grew up in the Wynnefield neighborhood of Philadelphia with his mother…
  • Francis Ford CoppolaFrancis Ford Coppola was born on the 7th of April 1939 in Detroit, Michigan. His father Carmine worked as a flautist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra…
  • Arthur MillerArthur Asher Miller was born on the 17th of October 1915 in Harlem, Manhattan. He grew up as the second child of Augusta and Isidore Miller.
  • Buster KeatonJoseph Frank Keaton arrived in Piqua, Kansas on the 4th of October 1895. His father Joe ran a traveling medicine show called the Mohawk Indian Medicine…
  • Ken BurnsKenneth Lauren Burns was born on the 29th of July 1953 in Brooklyn, New York. His mother Lyla Smith Burns worked as a biotechnician while his father Robert…
  • Robert RodriguezRobert Anthony Rodriguez was born on the 20th of June 1968 in San Antonio, Texas. His father Cecilio worked as a salesman while his mother Rebecca served as…
  • Bradley CooperBradley Charles Cooper was born on the 5th of January 1975, in Abington Township, Pennsylvania. He grew up near Philadelphia in the communities of Jenkintown…
  • Walt DisneyWalter Elias Disney was born on the 5th of December 1901 at 1249 Tripp Avenue in Chicago's Hermosa neighborhood. He moved to a farm in Marceline, Missouri…
  • John LasseterJohn Alan Lasseter was born on the 12th of January 1957 in Hollywood, California. His mother Jewell Mae Risley taught art at Bell Gardens High School while…
  • Stephen Glover (screenwriter)Stephen Antuan Glover entered the television industry in 2016 without a single prior professional credit. His older brother Donald hired him to co-write for…
  • Vin DieselMark Sinclair Vincent arrived in New York City during the late 1960s, born on the 18th of July 1967. He grew up in Alameda County before moving to Manhattan…
  • Ron HowardRonald William Howard entered the world on the 1st of March 1954, in Duncan, Oklahoma. His father Rance Howard served three years in the United States Air…
  • Pat ProftPat Proft was born in 1947 and grew up in Minnesota. He attended Columbia Heights High School where his English teacher Stuart J.
  • Rian JohnsonRian Johnson was born on the 17th of December 1973 in Silver Spring, Maryland. He grew up in Denver, Colorado until sixth grade before moving to San…
  • J. J. AbramsOn a day in 1982, Jeffrey Jacob Abrams composed the music for a horror movie called Nightbeast. He was only sixteen years old when he wrote that score.
  • Russo brothersAnthony J. Russo was born on the 3rd of February 1970 in Cleveland, Ohio. His brother Joseph Vincent Russo followed him into the world on the 18th of July…
  • Damon LindelofDamon Laurence Lindelof arrived in the world on the 24th of April 1973. He grew up in Englewood, New Jersey, as the son of Susan Klausner and David Herbert…
  • Dean DevlinDon Devlin, a Jewish actor turned writer-producer who discovered Steven Spielberg, and Pilar Seurat, a Filipino actress, raised Dean Devlin in the…
  • J. D. DillardJ. D. Dillard was born on the 26th of December 1987 into a family defined by service and flight. His father Bruce worked as a Naval flight officer who became…