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John L. Balderston

Highest Rated: 100% The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)

Lowest Rated: 62% The Mummy (1999)

Birthday: Oct 22, 1889

Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Playwright whose stage works provided the basis for the films "Dracula" (1931) and "Frankenstein" (1931). Balderston went on to write several superior horror screenplays and to successfully adapt a number of literary works; he scripted two fine Hollywood entertainments, the definitive version of the swashbuckling classic, "The Prisoner of Zenda" (1937), and the suspenseful "Gaslight" (1944).

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 71% The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
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100% 50% Beloved Enemy
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100% 81% Mad Love
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98% 87% Bride of Frankenstein
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94% 87% Frankenstein
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94% 82% Dracula
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89% 71% The Mummy
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89% 90% Gaslight
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88% 88% The Last of the Mohicans
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64% 44% Dracula's Daughter
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Filmography

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The Mummy 62% 75% 1999 Screenwriter The Last of the Mohicans 88% 88% 1992 Writer The Prisoner of Zenda 62% 1952 Screenwriter Gaslight 89% 90% 1944 Writer Tennessee Johnson 100% 1942 Screenwriter Smilin' Through 46% 1941 Screenwriter Beloved Enemy 100% 50% 1936 Screenwriter Dracula's Daughter 64% 44% 1936 Writer The Lives of a Bengal Lancer 100% 71% 1935 Screenwriter Mad Love 100% 81% 1935 Screenwriter Bride of Frankenstein 98% 87% 1935 Writer Berkeley Square 67% 1933 Screenwriter The Mummy 89% 71% 1932 Writer Dracula 94% 82% 1931 Writer Frankenstein 94% 87% 1931 Writer
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