Paul Dehn
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Paul Dehn (1912 - 1976) was a British screenwriter. He 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.
In 1949/50 he met the composer James Bernard with whom he started a professional relationship but who also became his life partner. Paul Dehn asked James Bernard to collaborate with him on the original screen story for the Boulting Brothers film Seven Days To Noon, (1950). For this Paul Dehn and Jame Bernard shared the 1952 Academy Award for the Best Writing, Motion Picture Story.
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). For The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Dehn and co-writer Guy Trosper received an Edgar Award, from the Mystery Writers of America, for Best Motion Picture Screenplay.
He received a second Academy Award nomination in 1974 for his adapted screenplay of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express.
