Douglas Bronston

{{infobox person |occupation=screenwriter and writer}} '''Douglas Bronston''' (1887 – 1951) was an American screenwriter and writer.<ref>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14761237494/ page 255] Motion Picture Studio Directory and Trade Annual (1916)</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x_icAwAAQBAJ&q=douglas+bronston+writer&pg=PA142|title=Mack Sennett's Fun Factory: A History and Filmography of His Studio and His Keystone and Mack Sennett Comedies, with Biographies of Players and Personnel|first=Brent E.|last=Walker|date=April 25, 2013|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786477111|via=Google Books}}</ref>

==Biography== Born in 1887 in Richmond, Kentucky, Bronston worked at newspapers before joining the Balboa Amusement Producing Company's scenario department as one of several newspaper men recruited into the film industry.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QjhKAQAAMAAJ&q=douglas+bronston+writer&pg=RA1-PA15|title=Fourth Estate: A Weekly Newspaper for Publishers, Advertisers, Advertising Agents and Allied Interests|date=December 10, 1917|publisher=Fourth Estate Publishing Company|via=Google Books}}</ref> He wrote the stories for various films and film serials as well as screenplays based on stories written by others.

He died in 1951 in Santa Monica, California.

==Filmography== *''Neal of the Navy'' (1915) *''The Grip of Evil'' (1916), a serial *''Scratched'' (1916) *''The Inspirations of Harry Larrabee'' (1917)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U5UZDgAAQBAJ&q=douglas+bronston+writer&pg=PA116|title=Silent Mystery and Detective Movies: A Comprehensive Filmography|first=Ken|last=Wlaschin|date=April 28, 2009|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786443505|via=Google Books}}</ref> based on the short story "The Inspirations of Harry Larrabee" by Howard Fielding (a pseudonym of Charles Witherle Hooke)<ref>TCM</ref> *''Thieves'' (1919) *''An Amateur Devil'' (1920) *''She Couldn't Help It'' (1920), with Channing Pollock *''The Outside Woman'' (1921) *''The House That Jazz Built'' (1921)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lwdJAQAAMAAJ&q=douglas+bronston+writer|title=The Film Daily Year Book of Motion Pictures|date=December 10, 1921|publisher=Film and Television Daily|via=Google Books}}</ref> *''The Oregon Trail'' (1923), a serial, one of the writers *''An Enemy of Men'' (1925) * ''Shameful Behavior?'' (1926) * ''Redheads Preferred'' (1926) *''When the Wife's Away'' (1926) *''The Thrill Hunter'' (1926) *''Snowbound'' (1927) *''Husband Hunters'' (1927)

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0111564|Douglas Bronston}}

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