Biography
Peter Ruric was the screenwriting pseudonym of American writer George Caryl Sims (1902–1966). He contributed the story and screenplay for the Universal horror film The Black Cat (1934), directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and starring Boris Karloff and Béla Lugosi.
Ruric's other film credits include the screenplay for Affairs of a Gentleman (1934) and story or screenplay work on Twelve Crowded Hours (1939), Grand Central Murder (1942) and Mademoiselle Fifi (1944). He was also a pulp fiction author under the name Paul Cain, notably with the novel Fast One (1933).
