Cyril Hume
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![]() Cyril Hume wrote science fiction film Forbidden Planet in 1956. | |
Born | |
Died | March 26, 1966 | (aged 66)
Nationality | American |
Education | Yale University |
Occupation(s) | Novelist, screenwriter |
Years active | 1924-1966 |
Known for | Forbidden Planet (1956) The Great Gatsby (1949) Tokyo Joe (1949) Flying Down to Rio (1933) Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) |
Relatives | David Hume |
Cyril Hume (March 16, 1900 – March 26, 1966) was an American novelist and screenwriter.
Hume was a graduate of Yale University, where he edited campus humor magazine The Yale Record. He was an editor of the collection The Yale Record Book of Verse: 1872-1922 (1922).[1]
He wrote for 29 films between 1924 and 1966, including Tarzan the Ape Man (1932), Flying Down to Rio (1933), The Great Gatsby (1949), Tokyo Joe (1949) and Forbidden Planet (1956).
Hume died March 26, 1966, just 10 days after his 66 birthday, at his home in Palos Verdes, California on March 26, 1966, and was buried in the Whispering Pines section of Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale.
Selected filmography
- The Invisible Boy (1957)
- Forbidden Planet (1956)
- Ransom! (1956)
- Tokyo Joe (1949)
- The Great Gatsby (1949)
- Tarzan Escapes (1936)
- Limehouse Blues (1934)
- Flying Down to Rio (1933)
- Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
- Trader Horn (1931)
- The Wife of the Centaur (1924)
References
- ^ Bronson, Francis W., Thomas Caldecott Chubb, and Cyril Hume, eds. (1922) The Yale Record Book of Verse: 1872-1922. New Haven: Yale University Press.
External links
- Cyril Hume at IMDb