Daniel Taradash (January 29, 1913 – February 22, 2003) was an American screenwriter.Taradash's credits include Golden Boy (1939), From Here to Eternity (1952), Rancho Notorious (1952), Don't Bother to Knock (1952), Désirée (1954), Picnic (1955), Storm Center (1956), which he also directed, Bell, Book and Candle (1958), Morituri (1965), Hawaii (1966), Castle Keep (1969), Doctors' Wives (1971), and Bogie (1980), a film biography of Humphrey Bogart.
It was Daniel Taradash, then president of AMPAS, who introduced Charles Chaplin at the 44th Annual Academy Awards in 1972 and presented him with the honorary Oscar, which resulted in the longest standing ovation in Academy Award history.
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In 1955, Taradash formed an independent production company, Phoenix Corporation, with his writing partner Julian Blaustein.
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A noted civil libertarian and opponent of McCarthyism.
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Wartime service with the U.S. Signals Corps, involved as writer/producer in the making of training and motivational films.
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Graduated from Harvard Law School in 1936. Though passing the New York bar exam, he never practiced law.
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Cousin of Ford Austin.
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President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1970 to 1973.
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