William Rose Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography

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William Rose

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Biography

William Rose was born in Jefferson City, Missouri, USA, and travelled to Canada at the outbreak of World War II, while the US was still neutral, in order to join up and fight the Nazis. This took him to Britain, where he decided to stay after the war.   He spent his demobilisation money on a course in screenwriting, and then became a writer of British and American comedies such as Ladykillers, Genevieve, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, and The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!, as well as more serious films such as Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.  He retired to Jersey, where he died in 1987 at the age of 72.

Filmography Movies

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Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks movie poster
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Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks

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Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks
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The Ladykillers movie poster
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The Ladykillers

7.3(0.5K)
The Ladykillers
Screenplay
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World movie poster
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

7.0(0.7K)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Screenplay
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! movie poster
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The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!

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The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
Screenplay
The Smallest Show on Earth movie poster
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The Smallest Show on Earth

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The Smallest Show on Earth
Screenplay
The Flim-Flam Man movie poster
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The Flim-Flam Man

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The Flim-Flam Man
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Genevieve movie poster
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Genevieve

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Genevieve
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The Man in the Sky movie poster
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The Man in the Sky

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The Man in the Sky
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The Man in the Sky movie poster
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The Man in the Sky

7.5(0.0K)
The Man in the Sky
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The 'Maggie' movie poster
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The 'Maggie'

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The 'Maggie'
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