Paul Edward Dehn was an English screenwriter, best known for Goldfinger, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Planet of the Apes sequels and Murder on the Orient Express.
13 Facts About Paul Dehn
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Paul Dehn was educated at Shrewsbury School, and attended Brasenose College, Oxford.
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Paul Dehn began his career in 1936 as a film reviewer for several London newspapers.
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Paul Dehn was film critic for the News Chronicle until its closure in 1960 and then for the Daily Herald until 1963.
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Paul Dehn was the Political Warfare officer from 1942 to 1944 and held the rank of Major.
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Paul Dehn narrated the 1951 film Waters of Time and later wrote plays, operettas and musicals for the stage.
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Paul Dehn wrote the lyrics for songs in two films, Moulin Rouge and The Innocents.
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In 1949 or 1950, Paul Dehn began a collaboration with composer James Bernard.
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Paul Dehn asked Bernard to collaborate with him on the original story for the Boulting Brothers film Seven Days to Noon.
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Paul Dehn later wrote the screenplays for the second, third, and fourth original Planet of the Apes movies and received the story-by credit on the fifth.
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Paul Dehn wrote the libretto for William Walton's opera The Bear and two by Lennox Berkeley; A Dinner Engagement and Castaway.
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Paul Dehn was working on adapting Evil Under the Sun when he died.
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Paul Dehn resurrected or reinvented at least three genres given up for dead at the time; the British mystery, the Shakespeare adaptation, and the spy film.