Ranald MacDougall Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Ranald MacDougall (March 10, 1915 – December 12, 1973) was an American screenwriter who scripted such films as Mildred Pierce (1945), The Unsuspected (1947), June Bride (1948), and The Naked Jungle (1954), and shared screenwriting credit for 1963's Cleopatra. He also directed a number of films, including 1957's Man on Fire with Bing Crosby and 1959's The World, the Flesh and the Devil, both of which featured actress Inger Stevens.Born in Schenectady, New York, MacDougall came from an impoverished working-class family. His father was a crane operator and union organizer, whose frequent strikes forced MacDougall to leave school before finishing the eighth grade to help support the family. He held a variety of odd jobs and during the Great Depression found work as an usher at Radio City Music Hall. He saw greater potential across the street in Rockefeller Center, where he was hired as a page, working alongside Gregory Peck. As a page MacDougall had the opportunity to closely observe the radio industry, and in his spare time he wrote and submitted scripts to his boss under pseudonyms, and was finally hired as a staff writer for NBC Radio despite being underage at the time.
First worked as an usher at Radio City Music Hall and later became a staff writer for NBC radio.
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He worked for Warner Brothers from 1944-50, notably on the Joan Crawford classic Mildred Pierce (1945), for which he won an Oscar nomination. From the mid-'50s he was primarily active in television, often writing under the pseudonym Quentin Werty. Between 1955-70 he also directed several low-budget films.
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