A.B. Guthrie Jr.

A.B. Guthrie Jr. was born on Jan 13, 1901 in USA. A.B. Guthrie Jr.'s big-screen debut came with The Big Sky directed by Howard Hawks in 1952. A.B. Guthrie Jr. is known for Shane directed by George Stevens, Alan Ladd stars as Shane and Jean Arthur as Marian Starrett. The upcoming new movie A.B. Guthrie Jr. plays is The Way West which will be released on May 24, 1967.

American story writer and author of novels which chronicle the settling of the American West from 1830. With the exception of Duel dans la boue (1959), Guthrie depicted a rugged, generally unromanticised West, his works often filled with accurate historical detail. He attended the University of Washington (1919-20) and graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Montana in 1923. A former journalist and executive editor of the Lexington Reader (1926-47), he won the Pulitzer Prize for his 1950 novel 'The Way West'. His best-known filmed works are La captive aux yeux clairs (1952) (written in 1947, about a 19th century beaver trapper) and his Oscar-nominated screenplay for L'Homme des vallées perdues (1953). Guthrie later became a staunch environmentalist, donating 80 acres to the Nature Conservancy's Pine Butte Swamp Preserve a year prior to his death.