Biography
Philip Dunne was an American screenwriter, film director and producer. Born in New York City on 11 February 1908, he died in Malibu, California, on 2 June 1992. He spent the majority of his career at 20th Century Fox, where he specialised in adaptations of romantic and historical dramas.
Dunne wrote the screenplay for How Green Was My Valley (1941), directed by John Ford. His other notable screenplays include The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), David and Bathsheba (1951), The Robe (1953) and The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965). He received Academy Award nominations for How Green Was My Valley and David and Bathsheba. Dunne was a founder of the Screen Writers Guild and active in opposing the Hollywood blacklist of the 1940s and 1950s.
