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American film director and screenwriter
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Place of birth
Buffalo, USA
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Los Angeles, USA
Age
93 years
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Wells Root (March 21, 1900 – March 9, 1993) was an American screenwriter and lecturer. In the mid-1930s he was involved with the Screen Writers Guild and in the 1950s the University of Southern California asked him to teach Film and Television Writing Technique, where he worked during the next twenty years.
Partial filmography
- Tiger Shark (1932)
- Bird of Paradise (1932)
- I Cover the Waterfront (1933)
- Flirtation (1934)
- The Bold Caballero (1936) - also director
- The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
- Man of Conquest (1939)
- Mokey (1942) - also director
- Tennessee Johnson (1942)
- The Man from Down Under (1943)
- Red Fury (1951)
- Texas Across the River (1966)
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