William Templeton (screenwriter), Date of Birth, Date of Death

William Templeton (screenwriter)

Scottish playwright and screenwriter

Date of Birth: 07-Jun-1913

Date of Death: 23-Oct-1973

Profession: screenwriter, playwright, film director

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

William Pettigrew Templeton (7 June 1913 – 23 October 1973) was a Scottish playwright and screenwriter who made a major contribution to the Golden Age of Television writing a string of episodic dramas for American prime time television during the 1950s and 1960s, a time when many hour-long anthology drama series received wide critical acclaim.
Templeton had a long film career both in the UK and the US.
His adaptation of The Fallen Idol (also known as The Lost Illusion) a 1948 film with Ralph Richardson directed by Carol Reed and based on the short story The Basement Room by Graham Greene was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Direction and Best Adapted Screenplay, and won a BAFTA Award for Best British Film.