Ernest Lehman

Ernest Lehman was born on Dec 08, 1915 in USA. Ernest Lehman's big-screen debut came with Sabrina directed by Billy Wilder in 1954. Ernest Lehman is known for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? directed by Mike Nichols, Elizabeth Taylor stars as Martha and Richard Burton as George. Ernest Lehman has got 11 awards and 13 nominations so far. The most recent award Ernest Lehman achieved is Online Film & Television Association. The upcoming new movie Ernest Lehman plays is Sabrina which will be released on Dec 15, 1995.

One of the most critically and commercially successful screenwriters in Hollywood history, Lehman grew up on Long Island, graduated from NY's City College. One of his first jobs was as a copywriter for a Broadway publicist. This experience would later be reflected in his novel and screenplay, "Sweet Smell of Success." He also worked as a radio comedy writer, and as editor of a financial magazine. He freelanced short stories for the likes of Collier's magazine and one of these fiction piece 'The Comedian' led to his first job in Hollywood as a screenwriter for Paramount in the mid 1950s. Nick Roddick, in Dictionary of Literary Biography, praised Lehman as "a champion of the well-crafted, what-happens-next screenplay." Served as president of the Writers Guild of America from 1983-85.