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Charles Kenyon
miscellaneous, script_department, writer
- Born:
- 1880-11-02, San Francisco, California, USA
- Died:
- 1961-06-27, Hollywood, California, USA
- Professions:
- miscellaneous, script_department, writer
Biography
San Francisco greeted Charles Kenyon with foghorns on 2 November 1880, and the boy who grew up chasing cable cars turned his ear for street slang into crisp dialogue for the screen. Over three decades he spun mysteries—most memorably the crack-up of an art-forgery detective in 1936, the eerie immortality experiment of The Man in Half Moon Street (1944), and the ghost-laced railroad tale Strange Journey (1946). Off-set he traded typewriter keys for wedding rings with actress Jane Winton. Hollywood, the town that had bought his stories, closed his final reel on 27 June 1961.
