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name: "John William Corrington"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-william-corrington"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "28 October 1932"
died: "24 November 1988"
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average_as: "writer"
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updated: "2026-09-19T16:48:48.351899+00:00"
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# John William Corrington

Writer. Born 28 October 1932 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Died 24 November 1988.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 28 October 1932, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
- **Died:** 24 November 1988
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Corrington, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1702163, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0181019/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/68683

## Biography

John William Corrington (1932–1988) was an American screenwriter, novelist, poet and lawyer. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, he collaborated with his wife Joyce Hooper Corrington on several film screenplays in the early 1970s.

Their credits include *Von Richthofen and Brown* (1971), *The Omega Man* (1971), *Boxcar Bertha* (1972), *The Arena* (1974) and the screenplay for *Battle for the Planet of the Apes* (1973). Corrington had an earlier career as a writer of fiction and poetry, and later worked with his wife as a head writer on daytime television serials including *Search for Tomorrow*, *Another World*, *General Hospital* and *One Life to Live*.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Battle for the Planet of the Apes* (1973), Fi1m 36, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/battle-for-the-planet-of-the-apes.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

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

- *I Am Legend* (2007), Original Film Writer
- *The Arena* (2001), Writer
- *Nightfall* (2000), Screenplay
- *Texas* (1980), series, Creator
- *The Arena* (1974), Writer
- *Killer Bees* (1974), Writer
- *Battle for the Planet of the Apes* (1973), Screenplay — Fi1m 36, [page](https://film.one/film/battle-for-the-planet-of-the-apes.md)
- *Boxcar Bertha* (1972), Screenplay
- *The Omega Man* (1971), Screenplay
- *Von Richthofen and Brown* (1971), Writer

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