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Actor
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Male
Birthday
27 March
Location
New York, United States
Edit pageStewart Stern
Biography
Stewart Stern was an American screenwriter and teacher best known for writing Rebel Without a Cause (1955), one of the defining films of the 1950s. He was born March 22, 1922, in New York City.
Stern served in the U.S. Army's 106th Infantry Division during World War II and saw combat during the Battle of the Bulge, receiving a Purple Heart and Bronze Star. After the war, he briefly worked as an actor before turning to screenwriting.
His major screenwriting credits included Teresa (1951), Rebel Without a Cause (1955), The Rack (1956), The Outsider (1961), The Ugly American (1963), Rachel, Rachel (1968), The Last Movie (1971), and Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973). He also wrote the television drama Sybil (1976), for which he won an Emmy Award.
For The Ugly American, Stern wrote the screenplay for the 1963 political drama starring Marlon Brando as American ambassador Harrison MacWhite. The film was directed by George Englund and adapted from the novel by Eugene Burdick and William J. Lederer.
Stern also became an influential screenwriting teacher, teaching at the University of Washington and later co-founding TheFilmSchool with actor Tom Skerritt. He died on February 2, 2015, in Seattle, Washington, at the age of 92.
