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name: "Ranald MacDougall"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ranald-macdougall"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "10 March 1915"
died: "12 December 1973"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-20T01:18:55.902821+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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# Ranald MacDougall

Writer. Born 10 March 1915 in Schenectady, New York, USA. Died 12 December 1973.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 10 March 1915, Schenectady, New York, USA
- **Died:** 12 December 1973
- **Active:** 1945–1963
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1940s 83 (1), 1960s 60 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranald_MacDougall, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q719684, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0532030/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/31843

## Biography

Ranald MacDougall (10 March 1915 – 12 December 1973) was an American screenwriter. He wrote the screenplay for *Mildred Pierce* (1945) and shared screenwriting credit on *Cleopatra* (1963). Other screenplays include *Objective, Burma!* (1945), *The Naked Jungle* (1954) and *The World, the Flesh and the Devil* (1959).

MacDougall also directed several films, among them *Man on Fire* (1957) and *The World, the Flesh and the Devil* (1959). He served as president of the Writers Guild of America West from 1971 until 1973. He began his career in radio before moving to film in the mid-1940s.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Cleopatra* (1963), Fi1m 60, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/cleopatra.md)
- *Mildred Pierce* (1945), Fi1m 83, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/mildred-pierce-1945.md)

## Complete filmography (29)

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

- *We're No Angels* (1989), Original Film Writer
- *That Man Bolt* (1973), Screenplay
- *Magic Carpet* (1972), Writer, Producer
- *The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County* (1970), Writer, Director, Producer
- *Jigsaw* (1968), Producer
- *Dark of the Sun* (1968), Screenplay
- *Fame Is the Name of the Game* (1966), Teleplay, Producer
- *Cleopatra* (1963), Screenplay — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/cleopatra.md)
- *Go Naked in the World* (1961), Director, Screenplay
- *The Subterraneans* (1960), Director
- *The World, the Flesh and the Devil* (1959), Director, Screenplay
- *Man on Fire* (1957), Director, Screenplay
- *The Mountain* (1956), Screenplay
- *Queen Bee* (1955), Director, Screenplay
- *We're No Angels* (1955), Screenplay
- *Secret of the Incas* (1954), Screenplay
- *The Naked Jungle* (1954), Screenplay
- *The House in the Square* (1951), Writer
- *Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell* (1951), Screenplay
- *The Breaking Point* (1950), Writer
- *Bright Leaf* (1950), Screenplay
- *Stage Fright* (1950), as Additional Writing
- *The Hasty Heart* (1949), Screenplay
- *The Decision of Christopher Blake* (1948), Screenplay, Producer
- *June Bride* (1948), Screenplay
- *The Unsuspected* (1947), Screenplay
- *Possessed* (1947), Screenplay
- *Mildred Pierce* (1945), Screenplay — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/mildred-pierce-1945.md)
- *Objective, Burma!* (1945), Screenplay

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1946: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Mildred Pierce*

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

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