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Michael Wilson

Highest Rated: 100% Salt of the Earth (1954)

Lowest Rated: 21% The Sandpiper (1965)

Birthday: Jul 1, 1914

Birthplace: McAlester, Oklahoma, USA

Talented writer whose career was interrupted by the HUAC hearings of 1951--the year he earned an Oscar for co-adapting "A Place in the Sun." Wilson subsequently wrote fellow blacklistee Herbert Biberman's independently produced leftist classic "Salt of the Earth" (1954) and worked uncredited on such films as "Friendly Persuasion" (1956), "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957) and "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962). He publicly resurfaced in the mid-1960s, contributing to Franklin Schaffner's sci-fi classic "Planet of the Apes" (1968) and Richard Fleischer's much-maligned biopic, "Che!" (1969).

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 82% Salt of the Earth
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100% 91% Five Fingers
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96% 93% The Bridge on the River Kwai Watchlist 93% 93% Lawrence of Arabia Watchlist 90% 84% A Place in the Sun Watchlist 86% 88% Planet of the Apes Watchlist
21% 46% The Sandpiper
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Bar 20
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Forty Thieves
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Filmography

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Che! 23% 1969 Screenwriter Planet of the Apes 86% 88% 1968 Screenwriter The Sandpiper 21% 46% 1965 Screenwriter Lawrence of Arabia 93% 93% 1962 Writer The Bridge on the River Kwai 96% 93% 1957 Screenwriter Salt of the Earth 100% 82% 1954 Writer Five Fingers 100% 91% 1952 Screenwriter A Place in the Sun 90% 84% 1951 Screenwriter Forty Thieves 1944 Screenwriter Border Patrol 1943 Screenwriter Bar 20 1943 Screenwriter
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