Wells Crosby Root (March 21, 1900 – March 9, 1993) was an American

screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...

and

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. In the mid-1930s he was involved with the

Screen Writers Guild The Screen Writers Guild was an organization of Hollywood screenplay authors, formed as a union in 1933. A rival organisation, Screen Playwrights, Inc., was established by the AMPP, film studios and producers, but after an appeal to the National ...

and in the 1950s the

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asked him to teach Film and Television Writing Technique, where he worked during the next twenty years. He co-authored the 1939 comedy play '' As You Are'' with Hugh Mills.

Filmography

Films

Television

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