Guy Trosper (1911 – 1963) was an American screenwriter. He came to prominence in Hollywood because of his scripts for two baseball movies: The Stratton Story in 1949, a big hit for James Stewart, and The Pride of St. Louis in 1952, for which he received an Academy Award nomination.This led him into a highly fertile creative period, during which he wrote the screenplays for Elvis Presley's breakout hit Jailhouse Rock in 1957, the complex western One-Eyed Jacks in 1961, and Birdman of Alcatraz in 1962, which he also produced.Trosper's last screenplay before his premature death was an adaptation of John le Carré's 1963 novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. The film was released in 1965; Trosper (posthumously) and co-writer Paul Dehn received a 1966 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America, for Best Motion Picture Screenplay.
Brother of Kathryn Trosper Popper, who was a 25-year-old personal assistant to Orson Welles when he cast her as a photographer in the closing scene of "Citizen Kane" and fed her the immortal line, "What's Rosebud?." She was 100 at her death in 2016 and believed to be the last surviving actor to have appeared in the film, which was released in 1941.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Son of the Mountains
1965
screenplay "One-Eyed Jacks" - uncredited
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
1965
screenplay
Birdman of Alcatraz
1962
screenplay
One-Eyed Jacks
1961
screenplay
Thunder in the Sun
1959
story
Darby's Rangers
1958
written by
Jailhouse Rock
1957
screenplay
The Girl He Left Behind
1956
screenplay
Many Rivers to Cross
1955
screenplay
The Americano
1955
screenplay
The Steel Cage
1954
segment "Face, The"
The Pride of St. Louis
1952
story
Inside Straight
1951
story and screenplay
Devil's Doorway
1950
written by
The Stratton Story
1949
screenplay
The True Glory
1945
Documentary uncredited
Eyes in the Night
1942
screenplay
Girl Trouble
1942
original story
Crossroads
1942
screenplay
I'll Wait for You
1941
screenplay
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Birdman of Alcatraz
1962
producer
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1966
Edgar
Edgar Allan Poe Awards
Best Motion Picture
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1966
WGA Award (Screen)
Writers Guild of America, USA
Best Written American Drama
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
1963
WGA Award (Screen)
Writers Guild of America, USA
Best Written American Drama
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
1953
Oscar
Academy Awards, USA
Best Writing, Motion Picture Story
The Pride of St. Louis (1952)
1951
WGA Award (Screen)
Writers Guild of America, USA
Best Written American Western
Devil's Doorway (1950)
Known for movies
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) as Writer
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) as Writer
$20 Million
