John Paxton(1911-1985)

Writer
Producer

John Paxton was born on 21 May 1911 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Crossfire (1947), Murder, My Sweet (1944) and Kotch (1971). He died on 5 January 1985 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

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Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 3 wins & 3 nominations total

Known for

Crossfire

7.2

Writer

1947

Murder, My Sweet

7.5

Writer

1944

Kotch

6.6

Writer

1971

Fourteen Hours

7.1

Writer

1951

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Writer

On the Beach
6.9
TV Movie
- Writer (1959 screenplay)
- 2000
I Am the Greatest!: The Adventures of Muhammad Ali
6.4
TV Series
- creator
- 1977
The Great Man's Whiskers
7.4
TV Movie
- Writer
- 1972
Kotch
6.6
- screenplay
- 1971
Aftermath
TV Movie
- Writer
- 1960
General Electric Theater
6.8
TV Series
- writer
- 1960
On the Beach
7.1
- screenplay
- 1959
How to Murder a Rich Uncle
6.9
- screenplay
- 1957
Pickup Alley
6.2
- screenplay
- 1957
The 20th Century-Fox Hour
7.2
TV Series
- Writer (1951 screenplay Fourteen Hours)
- 1955
A Prize of Gold
6.0
- screenplay
- 1955
The Cobweb
6.3
- screenplay
- 1955
The Wild One
6.7
- screenplay
- 1953
Fourteen Hours
7.1
- screen play
- 1951
Of Men and Music
7.9
- Jascha Heifetz sequence
- 1951

Producer

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Born
- May 21, 1911
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Died
- January 5, 1985
- Santa Monica, California, USA(undisclosed)
Other works
- During the Worlds Fair in New York, John Paxton wrote a piece for the New Yorker called "The Voder's Nursemaid". This was a description of the 'machine that could talk' in the A T & T exhibit, and Stanley Watkins, the Bell Labs engineer who made the machine talk. The article never got into the New Yorker but is in "Sortabiography: The First Sixty," unpublished manuscript by Stanley S A Watkins.