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- Died
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- Eddie
- A graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism, Edward Anhalt started his career in early television before turning to writing and producing films, often in collaboration with his wife Edna Anhalt. A prolific screenwriter, Anhalt and his wife won an Academy Award for Panic in the Streets (1950). He got his second Oscar for Becket (1964).- IMDb Mini Biography By: frankfob2@yahoo.com
- SpousesEdna Anhalt(? - 1956) (divorced)Huguette Patenaude(? - September 3, 2000) (his death)Camilla Carr (divorced)
- Married 5 times in all.
- Uncle of Jonathan Barry
- After receiving praise and the Academy Award for this 1964 screenplay for "Becket," which was based on the life and martyrdom of the Roman Catholic saint Thomas Becket, Anhalt admitted to an interviewer that he was an atheist.
- Anhalt started writing at the age of nineteen when he reorganized and re-conceptualized George Bernard Shaw's 1932 political comedy "On the Rocks." He audaciously sent his version to the seventy-three-year-old Shaw, who wrote the young man back, advising him to stop fiddling with other people's plays and to write his own. Instead, Anhalt ended up writing numerous screen adaptations of other writers' novels and plays, and his screenplay version of Jean Anouilh's drama "Becket" won him the Academy Award.
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