Robert Buckner was an American film screenwriter, producer and short story writer.
21 Facts About Robert Buckner
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Robert Buckner began his professional writing career at age 20, as London correspondent for the New York World.
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Robert Buckner wrote a play An Affair of the State; the novels Sigrid and Sergeant, Tiger By the Tail and Starfire ; and the short story "The Man Who Won the War".
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Robert Buckner did some uncredited work on Jezebel and wrote Love, Honor and Behave, Comet Over Broadway, The Oklahoma Kid, and You Can't Get Away with Murder.
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Robert Buckner was credited on Angels Wash Their Faces, and Espionage Agent was based on his story.
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Robert Buckner did a third Western for Flynn, Santa Fe Trail and was put on a war film for Flynn, Dive Bomber.
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Robert Buckner produced Mission to Moscow a biopic of Joseph E Davies and wrote and produced The Desert Song.
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Robert Buckner made God Is My Co-Pilot, and wrote and produced Confidential Agent with Charles Boyer.
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Robert Buckner produced a popular Western with Flynn, San Antonio.
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Robert Buckner did a biopic of the Bronte family, Devotion, and did a crime drama, Nobody Lives Forever.
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Robert Buckner produced a Western, Cheyenne, and the prestigious stage hit Life with Father.
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Robert Buckner went on to wrote and produce Sword in the Desert, based on an old story of Buckner's which he had turned into a novel called Night Watch.
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Robert Buckner wrote and produced Free for All, Deported, shot in Italy with Chandler, and Bright Victory.
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Robert Buckner provided the story for When in Rome and The Man Behind the Gun.
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Robert Buckner went to England to write To Paris with Love, House of Secrets and two for Warwick Films, A Prize of Gold and Safari.
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Robert Buckner began writing for TV, adapting Twentieth Century and A Bell for Adano for Ford Star Jubilee.
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Back in Hollywood Robert Buckner wrote Love Me Tender at 20th Century Fox, a film best remembered as Elvis Presley's debut movie.
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Robert Buckner went on to write episodes of The Rogues, Burke's Law, The Wackiest Ship in the Army, The Name of the Game and Bonanza.
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Robert Buckner wrote the features Return of the Gunfighter.
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Robert Buckner was an artist and recognized leader in the art community there.
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Robert Buckner died and was buried in San Miguel in 1989.