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name: "John Bright"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-bright-96819"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1908"
died: "14 September 1989"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-19T22:20:39.477586+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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# John Bright

Writer. Born 1 January 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Died 14 September 1989.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1908, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- **Died:** 14 September 1989
- **Also known as:** John Milton Bright
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bright_(screenwriter), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1699408, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0109148/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/96819

## Biography

John Bright, also credited as John Milton Bright, was an American screenwriter, journalist and political activist. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he began his career as a newspaper reporter in Chicago, where he worked with Ben Hecht and later collaborated with Kubec Glasmon on stories that were adapted into films.

With Glasmon, Bright co-wrote the story for *The Public Enemy* (1931), which helped establish the gangster film genre and earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Story. His screenwriting credits include *She Done Him Wrong* (1933), *Blonde Crazy* (1931), *Three on a Match* (1932) and *Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror* (1942). In 1933 he was one of the ten founders of the Screen Writers Guild. Targeted during the Hollywood blacklist era, he moved to Mexico and later returned to write magazine articles and plays.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *She Done Him Wrong* (1933), Fi1m 78, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/she-done-him-wrong.md)

## Complete filmography (24)

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

- *Rebellion of the Hanged* (1954), Screenplay
- *The Brave Bulls* (1951), Writer
- *The Kid from Cleveland* (1949), Screenplay, Story
- *Close-Up* (1948), Screenplay
- *Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad* (1948), Screenplay
- *I Walk Alone* (1947), Adaptation
- *We Accuse* (1945), Writer
- *Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror* (1942), Screenplay
- *Broadway* (1942), Screenplay
- *Glamour for Sale* (1940), Screenplay
- *Back Door to Heaven* (1939), Screenplay
- *San Quentin* (1937), Story
- *John Meade's Woman* (1937), Story
- *The Accusing Finger* (1936), Screenplay
- *Girl of the Ozarks* (1936), Writer
- *She Done Him Wrong* (1933), Screenplay — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/she-done-him-wrong.md)
- *If I Had a Million* (1932), Writer
- *Three on a Match* (1932), Story
- *The Crowd Roars* (1932), Screenplay
- *Taxi!* (1932), Adaptation, Dialogue
- *Union Depot* (1932), Dialogue
- *Blonde Crazy* (1931), Story
- *Smart Money* (1931), Writer
- *The Public Enemy* (1931), Writer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1931: Best Story (nominated), for *The Public Enemy*

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

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