William Forrest Halsey (November 9, 1877 – September 30, 1949) was an American writer and screenwriter. Halsey's novels included ''Fate and the Butterfly'' (1909), ''The Bawlerout'' (1912), and ''The Shadow on the Hearth'' (1914). From 1907 to 1918, he published more than one hundred short stories in popular magazines including Young's Magazine, The Argosy, The Cavalier, and

Munsey's Magazine ''Munsey's Magazine'' was an American magazine founded by Frank Munsey in 1889 as ''Munsey's Weekly'', a humor magazine edited by John Kendrick Bangs. It was unsuccessful, and by late 1891 had lost $100,000 ($ in ). Munsey converted it into ...

. As a screenwriter, he wrote for more than 60 films between 1913 and 1942. He was born in

Roseville, Newark, New Jersey Roseville is a neighborhood in the city of Newark in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It borders Bloomfield and East Orange. To the neighborhood's immediate east is the Newark City Subway and Branch Brook Park. Roseville is div ...

, and died in

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Selected filmography

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Ashes of Embers ''Ashes of Embers'' is a lost 1916 American silent drama film directed by Joseph Kaufman and Edward José. It was produced by Famous Players Film Company and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Pauline Frederick is the star of the picture. She ...

'' (1916) * '' A Broadway Saint'' (1919) * '' The Green Goddess'' (1923) * '' Monsieur Beaucaire'' (1924) * '' A Sainted Devil'' (1924) * ''

Twenty Dollars a Week ''Twenty Dollars a Week'' is a 1924 American silent film, silent comedy drama film directed by F. Harmon Weight and starring George Arliss, Taylor Holmes, and Edith Roberts (actress), Edith Roberts. Ronald Colman, then a rising star, had a suppo ...

'' (1924) * '' Camille of the Barbary Coast'' (1925) * '' Stage Struck'' (1925) * ''

Sally of the Sawdust ''Sally of the Sawdust'' is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Carol Dempster and W. C. Fields. It was based on the 1923 stage musical ''Poppy''. Fields would later star in a second film version, ''Pop ...

'' (1925) * '' The Palm Beach Girl'' (1926) * ''

The Sorrows of Satan ''The Sorrows of Satan'' is an 1895 Faustian novel by Marie Corelli. It is widely regarded as one of the world's first best-sellers – partly due to an upheaval in the system British libraries used to purchase their books, and partly due to it ...

'' (1926) * '' Broadway Nights'' (1927) * '' The Whip Woman'' (1928) * ''

Her Private Life ''Her Private Life'' is a surviving 1929 American sound ( All-Talking) pre-Code drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Billie Dove, Walter Pidgeon and Holmes Herbert. The plot concerns an English aristocrat who causes a scandal ...

'' (1929) * ''

The Divine Lady ''The Divine Lady'' is a 1928 American pre-Code synchronized sound historical drama film. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the sound-on-disc Vitaphone process. It ...

'' (1929) * ''

Kept Husbands ''Kept Husbands'' is a 1931 American Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code drama film directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Dorothy Mackaill and Joel McCrea, with major supporting roles filled by Robert McWade, Florence Roberts and Mary Carr. The original sto ...

'' (1931) * ''

The Lady Who Dared ''The Lady Who Dared'' is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by William Beaudine and starring Billie Dove, Sidney Blackmer and Conway Tearle. Print survival, Library of Congress and Turner.''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Insti ...

'' (1931) * ''

Silver Queen ''Silver Queen'' is a 1942 American Western (genre), Western film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring George Brent and Priscilla Lane. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards; one for Academy Award for Best Original Score, Best Score and ...

'' (1942)

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* 1877 births 1949 deaths American male screenwriters Writers from Newark, New Jersey Screenwriters from New Jersey 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American screenwriters {{US-screen-writer-1870s-stub