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name: "Edmund Joseph"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/edmund-joseph"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "28 August 1897"
died: "7 December 1957"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T00:54:37.006645+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."
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# Edmund Joseph

Writer. Born 28 August 1897 in Houston, Texas, USA. Died 7 December 1957.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 28 August 1897, Houston, Texas, USA
- **Died:** 7 December 1957
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95862543, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0430578/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/30265

## Biography

Edmund Joseph (1897–1957) was an American screenwriter and director. Born in Houston, Texas, he began his career directing short films in the late 1920s before moving into screenwriting.

His credits as writer include the screenplay for *Yankee Doodle Dandy* (1942), co-written with Robert Buckner, and *Who Done It?* (1942). Other screenwriting work encompasses *Women Must Dress* (1935), *Everybody's Doing It* (1938), *Bowery to Broadway* (1944) and *The Naughty Nineties* (1945).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Yankee Doodle Dandy* (1942), Fi1m 78, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/yankee-doodle-dandy.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

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

- *Sing Your Way Home* (1945), Story
- *The Naughty Nineties* (1945), Screenplay
- *Bowery to Broadway* (1944), Screenplay, Story
- *Make Your Own Bed* (1944), Screenplay
- *Who Done It?* (1942), Screenplay
- *Yankee Doodle Dandy* (1942), Screenplay — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/yankee-doodle-dandy.md)
- *Everybody's Doing It* (1938), Screenplay
- *Hats Off* (1936), Story, Screenplay
- *Women Must Dress* (1935), Screenplay, Story
- *Scotch Taffy* (1930), Director
- *The Heart Breaker* (1930), Director
- *Desert Thrills* (1930), Director
- *Let's Elope!* (1930), Director
- *Die Königsloge* (1929), Writer

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