During the classic era, his work, either as author or screenwriter, was the basis for seven films now widely regarded as film noirs, including three of the most famous: High Sierra ( 1941 ), This Gun for Hire ( 1942 ), and The Asphalt Jungle ( 1950 ).

* Raymond L. Schrock, screenwriter ( 1892 – 1950 )

* 1950 – Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter

John Thomas Sayles ( born September 28, 1950 ) is an American independent film director, screenwriter and author.

John Wilden Hughes, Jr. ( February 18, 1950 – August 6, 2009 ) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.

* 1946 – 1950 Gene Markey, producer and screenwriter

In 1950, Schulberg published The Disenchanted, about a young screenwriter who collaborates on a screenplay about a college winter festival with a famous novelist at the nadir of his career.

Ray made several more contributions to film noir, most notably the 1950 Humphrey Bogart movie In a Lonely Place, about a troubled screenwriter, and On Dangerous Ground, a police thriller.

* John Paul Puthusery ( born 1950 ), Malayalam screenwriter usually simply known as John Paul

From 1948 to 1950 Camilleri studied stage and film direction at the Silvio D ' Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts ( Accademia Nazionale d ' Arte Drammatica ) and began to take on work as a director and screenwriter, directing especially plays by Pirandello and Beckett.

The film was based on the experiences of, and written by, one of Ritt's closest friends, screenwriter Walter Bernstein, who was blacklisted for eight years beginning in 1950.

John David Landis ( born August 3, 1950 ) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer.

Matthew Chapman ( b. 1950 ), screenwriter, author, grandson of Frances Cornford see above.

Alfred Bertram Guthrie, Jr. ( January 13, 1901 – April 26, 1991 ) was an American novelist, screenwriter, historian, and literary historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1950 for his novel The Way West.

John Patrick Shanley ( born October 3, 1950 ) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director.

* Sunset Boulevard ( 1950 )— Actor William Holden portrays a hack screenwriter forced to collaborate on a screenplay with a desperate, fading silent film star, played by Gloria Swanson.

* In a Lonely Place ( 1950 )— Humphrey Bogart is a washed up screenwriter who gets framed for murder.

Deepa Mehta, LLD (; born 1 January 1950 ) is a Genie Award-winning Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, most known for her Elements Trilogy, Fire ( 1996 ), Earth ( 1998 ), and Water ( 2005 ); among which Earth was submitted by the Indian government for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and " Water " was submitted by Canada for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, making it Canada's first non-French Canadian film to receive a nomination in that category.

Henner Hofmann, ASC, AMC ( born July, 1950 ) is a Mexican cinematographer and screenwriter.

Wendy Lill ( born November 2, 1950 ) is an award-winning Canadian playwright, screenwriter and radio dramatist who served as an NDP Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2004.

Debra Hill ( November 10, 1950 – March 7, 2005 ) was an American screenwriter and film producer, who co-wrote the horror film Halloween, its first sequel Halloween II, and The Fog.

* Maude Fulton ( 1881 – 1950 ), actress, screenwriter

He later became a successful screenwriter for several British films, such as Up for the Cup ( 1950 ).

Louis Nowra ( born 12 December 1950 ) is an Australian writer, playwright, screenwriter and librettist.

A pair of the Western Pacific's Budd Rail Diesel Cars ( RDCs ), operating as replacements for the discontinued Royal Gorge ( trains No. 1 and 2 ) between September 17, 1950 and October 2, 1960 also picked up the nickname " Zephyrette.

* 1950 – 1951: The Super Chief is reequipped with new streamlined sleeping cars built by the Budd Company and the American Car and Foundry Company ( ACF ), and dining cars from Pullman-Standard.

In 1950 Britten approached him to copy out the vocal score of his new opera Billy Budd for his publishers Boosey & Hawkes.

* Budd Schulberg-The Disenchanted ( 1950 )

The novel was the 10th bestselling novel in the United States in 1950 and was adapted as a Broadway play in 1958, starring Jason Robards ( who won a Tony Award for his performance ) and George Grizzard as the character loosely based on Schulberg.

To the extent that our sampling of the orientations of American college students in the years 1950 and 1952 may be representative of our culture -- and still valid in 1959 -- we are disposed to question the summary characterization of the current generation as silent, beat, apathetic, or as a mass of other-directed conformists who are guided solely by social radar without benefit of inner gyroscopes.

Bradman was succeeded as Australian captain by Lindsay Hassett, who led the team to 4 – 1 victory in 1950 – 51.

According to Ben Pimlott, biographer of Queen Elizabeth II, the Aga Khan presented Her Majesty with a filly called Astrakhan, who won at Hurst Park Racecourse in 1950.

The so-called Weil conjectures were hugely influential from around 1950 ; they were later proved by Bernard Dwork, Alexander Grothendieck, Michael Artin, and Pierre Deligne, who completed the most difficult step in 1973.

" In 1950, Capp introduced a cartoonist character named " Happy Vermin "— a caricature of Fisher — who hired Abner to draw his comic strip in a dimly lit closet, ( after sacking his previous " temporary " assistant of 20 years, who had been cut off from all his friends in the process ).

In 1950, Bill's mother returned from nursing school and married Roger Clinton, Sr., who owned an automobile dealership in Hot Springs, Arkansas with his brother.

Finally, for 1950 only, runners would be credited with a stolen base if they were " well advanced " toward the base they were attempting to steal ", and the pitcher is charged with a balk, with the further exception of a player attempting to steal, who would otherwise have been forced to advance on the balk by a runner behind them.

This view was challenged by China and North Korea, who accused the U. S. of large-scale field testing of biological warfare against them during the Korean War ( 1950 – 1953 ), but this claim has been disputed.

The isotope effect was reported by two groups on the 24th of March 1950, who discovered it independently working with different mercury isotopes, although a few days before publication they learned of each other's results at the ONR conference in Atlanta, Georgia.

In 1952, Lancaster co-produced with producer Harold Hecht ( who had previously produced three Lancaster films under his own production company Norma Productions ; Kiss the Blood Off My Hands ( 1948 ), The Flame and the Arrow ( 1950 ), and Ten Tall Men ( 1951 )).

The headship of the family is in dispute between Charles Napoléon, born 1950, great-great-grandson of Jérôme Bonaparte by his second marriage ; and his son Jean-Christophe ( born 1986 ) who was appointed heir in the will of his grandfather Prince Louis Napoléon.

The early personages most cited for propounding composting within farming are for the German-speaking world Rudolf Steiner, founder of a farming method called biodynamics, and Annie Francé-Harrar, who was appointed on behalf of the government in Mexico and supported the country 1950 – 1958 to set up a large humus organization in the fight against erosion and soil degradation.

Early landmarks of the secondary literature include the monographs by Buchler ( 1939 ), Feibleman ( 1946 ), and Goudge ( 1950 ), the 1941 Ph. D. thesis by Arthur W. Burks ( who went on to edit volumes 7 and 8 ), and the studies edited by Wiener and Young ( 1952 ).

In the film serials Superman ( 1948 ) and Atom Man vs. Superman ( 1950 ), Kirk Alyn portrays Clark as a mild-mannered reporter who comes to Metropolis and secures a job at the Daily Planet, following the death of his foster parents.

" In Mexico he wrote 30 scripts under pseudonyms, such as Gun Crazy ( 1950 ), based on a short story by MacKinlay Kantor, who was the front for the screenplay.

However, Draper ’ s scheduled appearance in January 1950 was met with opposition from Hester McCullough, a woman who involved herself in the hunt for subversives.

* The top players of the day: world champion Mikhail Botvinnik, and those who had qualified for ( or been seeded into ) the inaugural Candidates Tournament in 1950: Isaac Boleslavsky, Igor Bondarevsky, David Bronstein, Max Euwe, Reuben Fine, Salo Flohr, Paul Keres, Alexander Kotov, Andor Lilienthal, Miguel Najdorf, Samuel Reshevsky, Vasily Smyslov, Gideon Ståhlberg, and László Szabó.

* Players still living who, though past their best in 1950, were recognised as having been world class when at their peak: Ossip Bernstein, Oldřich Duras, Ernst Grünfeld, Borislav Kostić, Grigory Levenfish, Géza Maróczy, Jacques Mieses, Viacheslav Ragozin, Akiba Rubinstein, Friedrich Sämisch, Savielly Tartakower, and Milan Vidmar.

Since FIDE did not award the grandmaster title posthumously, world-class players who died prior to 1950, including World Champions Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, and Alekhine, never received the title.

Over the course of seven years, the trio collaborated on seven films, including A Double Life ( 1947 ) starring Ronald Colman, Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), Born Yesterday ( 1950 ), The Marrying Kind ( 1952 ), and It Should Happen to You ( 1954 ), all starring another Cukor favorite, Judy Holliday, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Born Yesterday.

The brand has gone through many owners, starting with Willys, which produced the first Civilian Jeep ( CJ ) in 1945 and who were the first granted the trademark in 1950.

His siblings were August ( 1872 – 1952 ), Johannes ( 1873 – 1937 ), Lilli ( 1879 – 1950 ) and Elisabeth, who died shortly after birth in c. 1880.

He showed it to the mathematician Eduard Stiefel of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich ( Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ( ETH ) Zürich ) who ordered one in 1950.

In the 20th century the company was headed by Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach ( 1870 – 1950 ), who assumed the surname of Krupp when he married the Krupp heiress, Bertha Krupp.