---
name: "Charles Schnee"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/charles-schnee"
fi1m_id: "charles-schnee"
imdb_id: "nm0773660"
tmdb_id: 30295
wikidata_id: "Q1066019"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "6 August 1916"
died: "29 November 1962"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 86
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-25T05:10:42.589492+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Charles Schnee

## Identity

Charles Schnee

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/charles-schnee
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** charles-schnee
- **IMDb ID:** nm0773660
- **TMDB ID:** 30295
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1066019
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Schnee, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1066019, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0773660/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/30295

Writer. Born 6 August 1916 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA. Died 29 November 1962.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 6 August 1916, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
- **Died:** 29 November 1962
- **Active:** 1948–1952
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 86, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1940s 88 (1), 1950s 84 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Schnee, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1066019, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0773660/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/30295

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Red River*](https://film.one/film/red-river.md) (88)

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## Biography

Charles Schnee (1916–1962) was an American screenwriter and film producer. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, he graduated from Yale University and Yale Law School, practised law briefly, and moved to Hollywood in the mid-1940s after writing the play *Apology* (1943).

His screenwriting credits include *I Walk Alone* (1947), *Red River* (1948), *They Live by Night* (1949), *The Furies* (1950), *Westward the Women* (1951) and *The Bad and the Beautiful* (1952), for which he received an Academy Award. He also worked as a producer and production executive at MGM in the mid-1950s before returning to writing.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, encyclopedia.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Bad and the Beautiful* (1952), Fi1m 84, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-bad-and-the-beautiful.md)
- *Red River* (1948), Fi1m 88, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/red-river.md)

## Complete filmography (28)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Two Weeks in Another Town* (1962), Screenplay
- *By Love Possessed* (1961), Screenplay
- *BUtterfield 8* (1960), Screenplay
- *The Crowded Sky* (1960), Screenplay
- *Until They Sail* (1957), Producer
- *House of Numbers* (1957), Producer
- *The Wings of Eagles* (1957), Producer
- *Somebody Up There Likes Me* (1956), Producer
- *Trial* (1955), Producer
- *The Prodigal* (1955), Producer
- *Torch Song* (1953), Producer
- *Jeopardy* (1953), Executive Producer
- *The Bad and the Beautiful* (1952), Screenplay — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-bad-and-the-beautiful.md)
- *When in Rome* (1952), Writer
- *Westward the Women* (1951), Screenplay
- *Bannerline* (1951), Screenplay
- *Right Cross* (1950), Writer
- *Born to Be Bad* (1950), Adaptation
- *The Furies* (1950), Screenplay
- *The Next Voice You Hear...* (1950), Writer
- *Paid in Full* (1950), Screenplay
- *They Live by Night* (1949), Screenplay
- *Easy Living* (1949), Screenplay
- *Scene of the Crime* (1949), Screenplay
- *Red River* (1948), Screenplay — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/red-river.md)
- *I Walk Alone* (1947), Screenplay
- *Cross My Heart* (1946), Dialogue
- *From This Day Forward* (1946), Writer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won

- 1953: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (won), for *The Bad and the Beautiful*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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