William Rose
William Rose was born in Jefferson City, Missouri, USA, and travelled to Canada at the outbreak of World War II, while the US was still neutral, in order to join up and fight the Nazis. This took him to Britain, where he decided to stay after the war. He spent his demobilisation money on a course in screenwriting, and then became a writer of British and American comedies such as Ladykillers, Genevieve, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, and The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!, as well as more serious films such as Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. He retired to Jersey, where he died in 1987 at the age of 72.
Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks
(Screenplay)
The Ladykillers
(Screenplay)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
(Screenplay)
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
(Screenplay)
The Smallest Show on Earth
(Screenplay)
The Flim-Flam Man
(Screenplay)
Genevieve
(Story)
The Man in the Sky
(Story)
The Man in the Sky
(Screenplay)
The 'Maggie'
(Screenplay)
Once a Jolly Swagman
(Screenplay)
Davy
(Screenplay)
Song of Paris
(Story)
Esther Waters
(Screenplay)
Touch and Go
(Screenplay)
My Daughter Joy
(Screenplay)
Dhamaal
(Original Story)
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
(Screenplay)
Genevieve
(Screenplay)
Gift Horse
(Adaptation)
Island Splendor
(Writer)
The Ladykillers
(Story)
The Ladykillers
(Original Film Writer)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
(Writer)
I'll Get You for This
(Screenplay)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
(Story)