Oscar Millard

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Oscar Millard 1986 in Salzburg (A)

Oscar Millard (March 1, 1908 – December 7, 1990) was an English

Hollywood
as a screenwriter.

Author

In 1936 Millard published a biography of

First World War and had been imprisoned for refusing to cooperate with the occupying forces.[1] He followed this in 1937 with a novel inspired by the clandestine wartime newspaper La Libre Belgique, entitled Uncensored.[2] In 1942, this was adapted for the screen as Uncensored, with Terence Rattigan as the main scriptwriter. The setting was updated to the contemporary German occupation of Belgium during World War II.[2]

Screenwriter

Hollywood success came after the war, when Millard collaborated on the

Academy Award nomination for the gritty war movie The Frogmen (1951).[3]

Millard's output after that was less successful though interesting: the

Angel Face
(1952).

Millard's reputation was considerably tarnished after writing the John Wayne-Susan Hayward barbarian epic The Conqueror (1956). The film was panned by critics, and a legend circulated that filming downwind of a lake bed where the Atomic Energy Commission had tested 11 nuclear weapons the year before caused a cancer outbreak among the cast and crew; in reality, the number of people associated with the film that developed cancer was about the same, percentage-wise, as the general US population.[4]

After that, Millard found consistent work on television, writing scripts for such shows as

Twelve O'Clock High
.

Filmography

References

  1. ^ Burgomaster Max, reviewed in Foreign Affairs, January 1937.
  2. ^ a b Howard Maxford, Hammer Complete: The Films, the Personnel, the Company (2019), p. 559.
  3. latimes.com
    . 10 December 1990. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
  4. ^ "The Conqueror: Hollywood gives Genghis Khan a kicking he won't forget". The Guardian. 3 May 2013. Retrieved 10 February 2021.

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