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name: "Robert Buckner"
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born: "28 May 1906"
died: "18 August 1989"
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average_fi1m_score: 78
average_as: "writer"
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# Robert Buckner

Writer. Born 28 May 1906 in Crewe, Virginia, USA. Died 18 August 1989.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 28 May 1906, Crewe, Virginia, USA
- **Died:** 18 August 1989
- **Active:** 1938–1942
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 78, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1930s 78 (1), 1940s 78 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Buckner, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4420093, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0118758/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20371

## Biography

Robert Buckner (28 May 1906 – 18 August 1989) was an American screenwriter, playwright, producer and short story writer. He studied at the University of Virginia and the University of Edinburgh, and began his writing career as London correspondent for the New York World. He joined Warner Bros. as a screenwriter in 1937.

Buckner's early credits include the screenplay for Gold Is Where You Find It (1938) and uncredited work on Jezebel (1938). He wrote the screenplays for Dodge City (1939), Virginia City (1940), Santa Fe Trail (1940), Knute Rockne All American (1940) and Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), the last of which earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Story. He later produced several films at Warner Bros. and Universal, and received a Golden Globe Award and Screen Writers Guild Meltzer Award for Bright Victory (1951).

In the 1950s and 1960s Buckner wrote screenplays for Love Me Tender (1956) and Return of the Gunfighter (1967), and created the television series Hong Kong (1960–1961). He also wrote plays, novels and short stories.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Yankee Doodle Dandy* (1942), Fi1m 78, Screenplay, Story — [page](https://film.one/film/yankee-doodle-dandy.md)
- *Jezebel* (1938), Fi1m 78, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/jezebel.md)

## Complete filmography (49)

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

- *Screen Two* (1985), series, Writer
- *The Name of the Game* (1968), series, Writer
- *Return of the Gunfighter* (1967), Story, Screenplay
- *Amos Burke: Secret Agent* (1965), series, Writer
- *The Rogues* (1964), series, Writer, Story
- *Moon Pilot* (1962), Story
- *Hong Kong* (1960), series, Writer
- *From Hell to Texas* (1958), Screenplay, Producer
- *Love Me Tender* (1956), Screenplay
- *House of Secrets* (1956), Screenplay
- *Safari* (1956), Story
- *A Prize of Gold* (1955), Screenplay
- *Ford Star Jubilee* (1955), series, Writer
- *To Paris with Love* (1955), Screenplay
- *The Man Behind The Gun* (1953), Story
- *When in Rome* (1952), Story
- *Bright Victory* (1951), Screenplay, Producer
- *Deported* (1950), Producer, Screenplay
- *Free For All* (1949), Writer, Producer
- *Sword in the Desert* (1949), Writer, Producer
- *Rogues' Regiment* (1948), Producer, Screenplay, Story
- *Life with Father* (1947), Producer
- *Cheyenne* (1947), Producer
- *Nobody Lives Forever* (1946), Producer
- *Devotion* (1946), Producer
- *San Antonio* (1945), Producer
- *Confidential Agent* (1945), Screenplay
- *God Is My Co-Pilot* (1945), Producer
- *Uncertain Glory* (1944), Producer
- *Roaring Guns* (1944), Writer
- *The Desert Song* (1944), Writer
- *Mission to Moscow* (1943), Producer
- *Gentleman Jim* (1942), Producer
- *Yankee Doodle Dandy* (1942), Screenplay, Story — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/yankee-doodle-dandy.md)
- *Dive Bomber* (1941), Screenplay
- *Santa Fe Trail* (1940), Screenplay
- *Knute Rockne All American* (1940), Screenplay
- *My Love Came Back* (1940), Screenplay
- *Virginia City* (1940), Screenplay
- *Primrose Path* (1940), Theatre Play
- *Espionage Agent* (1939), Original Story
- *Angels Wash Their Faces* (1939), Screenplay
- *Dodge City* (1939), Screenplay
- *You Can't Get Away with Murder* (1939), Screenplay
- *The Oklahoma Kid* (1939), Screenplay
- *Comet Over Broadway* (1938), Writer
- *Jezebel* (1938), Screenplay — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/jezebel.md)
- *Love, Honor and Behave* (1938), Screenplay
- *Gold Is Where You Find It* (1938), Screenplay

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1943: Best Story (nominated), for *Yankee Doodle Dandy*

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

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