---
name: "James Poe"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/james-poe"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "4 October 1921"
died: "24 January 1980"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 66
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-20T04:08:20.482894+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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# James Poe

Writer. Born 4 October 1921 in Dobbs Ferry, New York, USA. Died 24 January 1980.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 4 October 1921, Dobbs Ferry, New York, USA
- **Died:** 24 January 1980
- **Active:** 1956–1963
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won · 3 nominated)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 66, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1950s 63 (1), 1960s 70 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Poe, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1680994, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0688117/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3638

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Lilies of the Field*](https://film.one/film/lilies-of-the-field.md) (70), [*Around the World in 80 Days*](https://film.one/film/around-the-world-in-80-days.md) (63)

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## Biography

James Poe (1921–1980) was an American screenwriter. He began his career at the newsreel company The March of Time and moved to Hollywood in 1941, where he wrote radio plays and documentaries before working on feature films.

Poe received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for *Around the World in 80 Days* (1956). His other screenplays include *Cat on a Hot Tin Roof* (1958), *Lilies of the Field* (1963), *The Bedford Incident* (1965) and *They Shoot Horses, Don't They?* (1969). He was married to actress Barbara Steele from 1969 to 1978.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Lilies of the Field* (1963), Fi1m 70, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/lilies-of-the-field.md)
- *Around the World in 80 Days* (1956), Fi1m 63, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/around-the-world-in-80-days.md)

## Complete filmography (21)

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

- *The Nightman* (1992), Writer
- *Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb* (1980), Writer
- *The Gathering, Part II* (1979), Characters
- *The Gathering* (1977), Writer
- *They Shoot Horses, Don't They?* (1969), Screenplay
- *Riot* (1969), Screenplay
- *The Bedford Incident* (1965), Screenplay
- *Toys in the Attic* (1963), Writer
- *Lilies of the Field* (1963), Screenplay — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/lilies-of-the-field.md)
- *Summer and Smoke* (1961), Screenplay
- *Sanctuary* (1961), Screenplay
- *Last Train from Gun Hill* (1959), Screenplay
- *Cat on a Hot Tin Roof* (1958), Screenplay
- *Hot Spell* (1958), Screenplay
- *Around the World in 80 Days* (1956), Screenplay — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/around-the-world-in-80-days.md)
- *Attack* (1956), Screenplay
- *The Big Knife* (1955), Writer
- *A Slight Case of Larceny* (1953), Story
- *Paula* (1952), Writer
- *Scandal Sheet* (1952), Screenplay
- *Without Honor* (1949), Writer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won, 3 nominated

- 1970: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *They Shoot Horses, Don't They?*
- 1964: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Lilies of the Field*
- 1959: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Cat on a Hot Tin Roof*
- 1957: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (won), for *Around the World in 80 Days*

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

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