Paul Dehn

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Screenwriter Paul Dehn (1912 - 1976) began his show-business career in 1936 as a movie reviewer for several London newspapers. He later wrote plays, operettas and musicals for the stage. Dehn's first screenplay, for "Seven Days to Noon" (1951), garnered him an Oscar. He later wrote everything from James Bond films to entries in the "Planet of the Apes" series, and also was a lyricist for several film musicals.

Through the 1960s Dehn concentrated on several superior espionage films, notably "Goldfinger" (1964), "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" (1965) and "The Deadly Affair" (1967).

He received a second Academy Award nomination in 1974 for his adapted screenplay of Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express".

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