Cyril Hume
Screenwriter

Cyril Hume

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Screenwriter
Gender:
Male
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United States of America
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WriterScreenwriterNovelist
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Film, TV, Stage & RadioLiterature
Birth:
16 March 1900(New York City)
Death:
26 March 1966(Palos Verdes Peninsula)
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Spouse(s):
Helen Chandler
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Cyril Hume (March 16, 1900 – March 26, 1966) was an American novelist and screenwriter.
Hume was a graduate of Yale University, where he edited campus humor magazine The Yale Record. He was an editor of the collection The Yale Record Book of Verse: 1872-1922 (1922).
He wrote for 29 films between 1924 and 1966, including Tarzan the Ape Man (1932), Flying Down to Rio (1933), The Great Gatsby (1949), Tokyo Joe (1949) and Forbidden Planet (1956).
Hume died March 26, 1966, just 10 days after his 66 birthday, at his home in Palos Verdes, California on March 26, 1966, and was buried in the Whispering Pines section of Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale.

Selected filmography

  • The Wife of the Centaur (1924)
  • New Moon (1930)
  • Trader Horn (1931)
  • Daybreak (1931)
  • Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
  • Flying Down to Rio (1933)
  • Affairs of a Gentleman (1934)
  • Limehouse Blues (1934)
  • Yellow Dust (1936)
  • The Devil Is a Sissy (1936)
  • Tarzan Escapes (1936)
  • The Great Gatsby (1949)
  • Tokyo Joe (1949)
  • Ransom! (1956)
  • Forbidden Planet (1956)
  • The Invisible Boy (1957)