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name: "Edward Anhalt"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/edward-anhalt"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "28 March 1914"
died: "3 September 2000"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T04:26:42.056473+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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# Edward Anhalt

Writer. Born 28 March 1914 in New York City. Died 3 September 2000.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 28 March 1914, New York City
- **Died:** 3 September 2000
- **Active:** 1964–1983
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 writing
- **Academy Awards:** 2 Oscars (2 won · 1 nominated)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 79 (1), 1980s 86 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Anhalt, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1291551, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0030019/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/70997

## Streaming the US now

- **Pluto TV:** [*Becket*](https://film.one/film/becket.md) (79)

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## Biography

Edward Anhalt (28 March 1914 – 3 September 2000) was an American screenwriter. Born in New York City, he graduated from Columbia University and began his career as a journalist and documentary filmmaker before serving in the US Army Air Force during the Second World War, where he wrote training films.

After the war he wrote screenplays, often in collaboration with his first wife Edna Anhalt. They shared the Academy Award for Best Motion Picture Story for *Panic in the Streets* (1950). Anhalt received a second Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for *Becket* (1964), an adaptation of Jean Anouilh's play. His other credits include *The Young Lions* (1958), *The Sniper* (1952), *Boeing, Boeing* (1965), *Jeremiah Johnson* (1972), *The Boston Strangler* (1968) and *Escape to Athena* (1979).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, nytimes.com, theguardian.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1)

- *The Right Stuff* (1983), Fi1m 86, as Grand Designer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-right-stuff.md)

### Wrote (1) — the average rests on these

- *Becket* (1964), Fi1m 79, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/becket.md)

## Complete filmography (50)

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

- *The Take* (1990), Teleplay
- *The Neon Empire* (1989), series, Story
- *Peter the Great* (1986), series, Writer
- *The Holcroft Covenant* (1985), Screenplay
- *Boeing Boeing* (1985), Original Story
- *The Right Stuff* (1983), as Grand Designer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/the-right-stuff.md)
- *Falcon Crest* (1981), series, as Bald Man
- *Green Ice* (1981), Screenplay
- *Madame X* (1981), as Judge · Teleplay
- *The Day Christ Died* (1980), Teleplay
- *Escape to Athena* (1979), Screenplay
- *Contract on Cherry Street* (1977), Writer
- *Nowhere to Hide* (1977), as Alberto Amarici · Screenplay, Producer
- *Tail Gunner Joe* (1977), as Sen. Herbert Lehman
- *The Man in the Glass Booth* (1975), Screenplay
- *QB VII* (1974), series, Writer
- *Luther* (1974), Screenplay
- *The Iceman Cometh* (1973), Story Consultant
- *Jeremiah Johnson* (1972), Screenplay
- *The Salzburg Connection* (1972), Screenplay
- *The Madwoman of Chaillot* (1969), Screenplay
- *The Boston Strangler* (1968), Screenplay
- *In Enemy Country* (1968), Screenplay
- *Hour of the Gun* (1967), Writer
- *Boeing, Boeing* (1965), Screenplay
- *The Satan Bug* (1965), Screenplay
- *Becket* (1964), Screenplay — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/becket.md)
- *Wives and Lovers* (1963), Writer
- *A Girl Named Tamiko* (1962), Writer
- *Girls! Girls! Girls!* (1962), Screenplay
- *The Young Savages* (1961), Screenplay
- *The Sins of Rachel Cade* (1961), Writer
- *The Restless Years* (1958), Screenplay
- *In Love and War* (1958), Writer
- *The Young Lions* (1958), Writer
- *The Pride and the Passion* (1957), Screenplay
- *Not as a Stranger* (1955), Screenplay
- *Three Lives* (1953), Writer
- *The Member of the Wedding* (1952), Screenplay, Associate Producer
- *Eight Iron Men* (1952), Associate Producer
- *The Sniper* (1952), Story
- *My Six Convicts* (1952), Associate Producer
- *Panic in the Streets* (1950), Story
- *The Crime Doctor's Diary* (1949), Screenplay, Story
- *The Gentleman from Nowhere* (1948), Screenplay
- *Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back* (1947), Screenplay
- *Strange Voyage* (1946), Writer
- *Avalanche* (1946), Screenplay
- *Men and Dust* (1940), Assistant Editor
- *The City* (1939), Camera Operator

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 2 won, 1 nominated

- 1965: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (won), for *Becket*
- 1953: Best Story (nominated), for *The Sniper*
- 1951: Best Story (won), for *Panic in the Streets*

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

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