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Nelson Roosevelt Gidding (September 15, 1919 – May 2, 2004) was an American screenwriter specializing in film adaptation. [1] A longtime collaboration with director Robert Wise began with Gidding's screenplay for I Want to Live! (1958), which earned him an Oscar nomination.
Writer: The Andromeda Strain. Born in New York and educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard, Nelson Gidding said that he had been interested in writing ever since he was a child and had a poem published in the Boy Scouts magazine ("That was as recently as the mid-'20s!" he laughed).
- Writer, Additional Crew
- September 15, 1919
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- May 1, 2004
Nelson Gidding. Writer: The Andromeda Strain. Born in New York and educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard, Nelson Gidding said that he had been interested in writing ever since he was a child and had a poem published in the Boy Scouts magazine ("That was as recently as the mid-'20s!"
- September 15, 1919
- May 1, 2004
May 7, 2004 · Gidding moved to the big screen as co-writer of “The Helen Morgan Story,” the 1957 drama about the 1920s and ’30s singer, starring Ann Blyth and Paul Newman.
Nelson Roosevelt Gidding (September 15, 1919 – May 2, 2004) was an American screenwriter specializing in film adaptation. A longtime collaboration with director Robert Wise began with Gidding's screenplay for I Want to Live! (1958), which earned him an Oscar nomination.
May 14, 2004 · Nelson Gidding, a Hollywood screenwriter who worked on classics like the Susan Hayward prison drama ''I Want to Live!,'' died on May 2 at a hospital in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 84 and lived...
May 7, 2004 · Nelson Gidding -- a screenwriter and frequent collaborator of director Robert Wise whose credits included “The Haunting,” “The Andromeda Strain” and “I Want to Live!” -- has died.
