* 1955 – Sam Hamm, American screenwriter

In the first week of January 1955, Siegel, Wanger and screenwriter Daniel Mainwaring visited Finney to talk about the film version and to take a look at Mill Valley.

* Robert E. Sherwood ( 1896 – 1955 ), playwright, editor, and screenwriter

* Robert Riskin ( 1897 – 1955 ), screenwriter

Olivier Assayas ( born January 25, 1955 ) is a French film director and screenwriter.

As a screenwriter, he received three Academy Awards for Marty ( 1955 ), The Hospital ( 1971 ) and Network ( 1976 ).

Fernando Ferreira Meirelles ( born November 9, 1955 in São Paulo, Brazil ) is a Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter.

Roland Emmerich () ( born November 10, 1955 ) is a German film director, screenwriter, and producer.

* Unni Straume ( born 1955 ), Norwegian film director and screenwriter

* Stella ( 1955 ): director, screenwriter, producer

Robert Emmet Sherwood ( 4 April 1896 – 4 November 1955 ) was an American playwright, editor, and screenwriter.

* Robert Emmet Sherwood ( 1896 – 1955 ), American playwright, editor, and screenwriter

* Nancy Oliver ( born 1955 ), American playwright and screenwriter

* Fraser Clarke Heston ( born 1955 ), American screenwriter, son of Charlton Heston

Donald Paul Roos ( born April 14, 1955 ) is an American screenwriter and film director.

Rose was a screenwriter, beginning with Crime in the Streets ( 1956 ), an adaptation of his 1955 teleplay for The Elgin Hour.

* John Grant ( screenwriter ) ( 1891 – 1955 ), screenwriter, wrote for Abbott and Costello

José Rivera ( born March 24, 1955 ) is a playwright and the first Puerto Rican screenwriter to be nominated for an Oscar.

Robert Anthony McGowan ( May 22, 1901-June 20, 1955 ) was an American screenwriter and film director.

Willam C. deMille ( July 25, 1878 – March 5, 1955 ) was an American screenwriter and film director from the silent movie era through the early 1930s.

Paul Greengrass ( born 13 August 1955 ) is an English film director, screenwriter and former journalist.

* Joaquín Pardavé, Mexican actor, director, songwriter and screenwriter of the Mexican cinema ( 1900 – 1955 ).

Nancy Oliver ( born February 8, 1955 ) is an American playwright and screenwriter.

Van Cleef appeared six times between 1951 and 1955 as Burt Tanner on the children's western The Adventures of Kit Carson, starring Bill Williams.

In 1955, he made his motion picture debut as a whip-wielding bad guy in The Kentuckian opposite Burt Lancaster.

The Red River Gorge's Sky Bridge appears in the 1955 film " The Kentuckian ", starring and directed by Golden Globe and Academy Award winner Burt Lancaster.

In 1955, Katy traveled to Italy for the filming of Trapeze, directed by Carol Reed, with Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis and Gina Lollobrigida.

The Village was so well known throughout the United States in its early years that it was chosen as the setting for portions of the 1955 Burt Lancaster film The Kentuckian.

Having been in a partnership with songwriters Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Warwick ranks among the 40 biggest hit makers of the entire rock era ( 1955 – 2012 ), based on the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles Charts.

* Burt, N., " Opera in Arcadia ", MQ, xli ( 1955 ), 145 – 70

Alistair James Hendrie Burt ( born 25 May 1955 ) is a British Conservative Party politician.

During the 1950s, she participated in several Hollywood productions such as Arrowhead ( 1953, with Charlton Heston ), Broken Lance ( 1954, with Spencer Tracy for which she received an Academy Award nomination ), Trapeze ( 1955, with Burt Lancaster ), One-Eyed Jacks ( 1959, directed by Marlon Brando ), Barabbas, Stay Away, Joe ( 1968, opposite Elvis Presley ), Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ( 1973 ), and others.

* Alistair Burt ( born 1955 ), Conservative MP for Bury North 1983 – 1997, MP for North East Bedfordshire 2001 —

* Alistair Burt ( born 1955 ), British politician

He appeared in The Big Knife ( 1955 ) starring Jack Palance, Ida Lupino and Shelley Winters, The Rainmaker ( 1956 ) starring Burt Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn and Loving You ( 1957 ) starring Elvis Presley and Lizabeth Scott.

*" The Kentuckian Song " ( Eddy Arnold vocal from the Burt Lancaster film The Kentuckian, 1955 )

( 1952 ), with Marlon Brando and Anthony Quinn, Robert Aldrich's Vera Cruz ( 1954 ), with Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster, The Treasure of Pancho Villa ( 1955 ), Robert Mitchum in Bandido ( 1956 ) and The Wonderful Country ( 1959 ), The Professionals ( 1966 ), with Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, and Woody Strode.

* 1955 – Frankie Kennedy, Irish flute player ( Altan ) ( d. 1994 )

In 1955 Jurado filmed Trial, directed by Mark Robson, with Glenn Ford and Arthur Kennedy.

Also in 1955, while Nixon was serving as vice-president to Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and his research assistants wrote in his book Profiles in Courage, " Some of them may have been representing the actual sentiments of the silent majority of their constituents in opposition to the screams of a vocal minority ..." In January 1956, Kennedy gave Nixon an autographed copy of the book.

Stephen Martin Walt ( born July 2, 1955 ) is a professor of international affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

He opened a small frame building at Kennedy Road and Eglinton in Scarborough, selling used applicances, and then, at age 22, bought out Heather Hill Applicances and established Bad Boy Furniture in 1955.

They had five children: Robert Sargent Shriver III ( born April 28, 1954 ), Maria Owings Shriver ( born November 6, 1955 ), Timothy Perry Shriver ( born August 29, 1959 ), Mark Kennedy Shriver ( born February 17, 1964 ), and Anthony Paul Kennedy Shriver ( born July 20, 1965 ).

In 1955, then U. S. Senator John F. Kennedy announced, to the organization United Cerebral Palsy, that the institute was " planning to launch an all-out attack against the dread spectre of cerebral palsy ".

Orville Lothrop Freeman ( May 9, 1918February 20, 2003 ) was an American Democratic politician who served as the 29th Governor of Minnesota from January 5, 1955 to January 2, 1961, and as the U. S. Secretary of Agriculture from 1961 to 1969 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

David Anthony Kennedy ( June 15, 1955 – April 25, 1984 ) was the fourth of eleven children of Robert F. Kennedy.

They had four children: their son, actor and author Christopher Kennedy Lawford ( born 1955 ), their daughters Sydney Maleia Kennedy Lawford ( born 1956 ), Victoria Francis Lawford ( born 1958 ), and Robin Elizabeth Lawford ( born 1961 ).

The Freedom Rides, and the violent reactions they provoked, prompted Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to confront the Interstate Commerce Commission with its failure to enforce a bus desegregation ruling it had handed down in 1955, Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company, 64 MCC 769 ( 1955 ) as well as the companion train desegregation case, NAACP v. St. Louis-Santa Fe Railway Company, 297 ICC 335 ( 1955 ).

By presenting the Commission with its own rulings in a May 29, 1961 petition, Kennedy was able to prompt it to do what it had promised in 1955, five years before the Boynton ruling was handed down, and six years before the Freedom Riders set out to test Boynton across the Deep South.

Substitute hosts on the original version included Bill Hart ( 1951 ), John Reed King ( 1952 ), stunt creator Frank Wayne ( 1953 ), Bob Kennedy ( 1954 ), Win Elliot ( 1955 ), and Sonny Fox, who became Collyer's permanent substitute from 1957 to 1960.

With help from research assistants and the Library of Congress, Kennedy wrote the book while bedridden during 1954 and 1955, recovering from back surgery.

In autumn 1955 while on holiday in Ireland the then Senator John F. Kennedy addressed students of All Hallows at the invitation of Fr.

On May 23, Kennedy was the first candidate not from the NDP or its predecessor, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, to win the seat since 1955.

Her works include Song of the Songless ( 1928 ), Three Madrigals ( 1928 ), Two Dances ( 1934 ), In principio erat verbum ( 1939 ), Six Etudes ( 1954 ), The Alcestiad ( 1955 – 1958 ) an opera with a libretto by Thornton Wilder, Full Circle ( 1985 ), Spacings ( 1994 ), and A Time to Remember ( 1966 – 1967 ) based on speeches of John F. Kennedy.

David Kennedy ( 1955 – 1984 ) was an American writer and son of politician Robert Kennedy.