William Bowers
William Bowers (Las Cruces, 1916 - Woodland Hills, California, 1987) was a reporter in Long Beach, California before becoming a screenwriter and specializing in writing comedy westerns and also turned out several thrillers. His first credited screenplay was My Favorite Spy in 1942. His career noticeably picked up after his Oscar nomination for the gritty Gregory Peck Western The Gunfighter in 1950, leading to such assignments as the remake of My Man Godfrey in 1957 and The Sheepman in 1958 (a second Oscar nomination). Bowers produced the last film that he wrote, the superior Western parody Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969). He also had a bit part as an actor in The Godfather Part II (1974).
Support Your Local Sheriff!
(Screenplay)
Support Your Local Sheriff!
(Producer)
Cry Danger
(Screenplay)
The Mob
(Screenplay)
Split Second
(Screenplay)
Convicted
(Screenplay)
-30-
(Writer)
The Web
(Screenplay)
Night and Day
(Screenplay)
The Law and Jake Wade
(Screenplay)
Something in the Wind
(Screenplay)
Alias Jesse James
(Writer)
5 Against the House
(Screenplay)
The Gunfighter
(Screenplay)
The Gunfighter
(Story)
My Man Godfrey
(Screenplay)
The Ride to Hangman's Tree
(Screenplay)
Tight Spot
(Screenplay)
Assignment: Paris
(Screenplay)
Seven Days' Leave
(Screenplay)
Way... Way Out
(Writer)
The Best Things in Life Are Free
(Screenplay)
She Couldn't Say No
(Screenplay)
River Lady
(Screenplay)
Imitation General
(Screenplay)
Jungle Patrol
(Story)
Sing Your Way Home
(Screenplay)
The Adventures of a Rookie
(Story)
Advance to the Rear
(Screenplay)
The Last Time I Saw Archie
(Screenplay)
Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone
(Screenplay)
Larceny
(Screenplay)
Mobile Two
(Producer)
The Gal Who Took the West
(Story)
The Sheepman
(Screenplay)
The Gun and the Pulpit
(Teleplay)
Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
(Writer)
The San Francisco Story
(Writer)
Sidekicks
(Writer)
More Wild Wild West
(Teleplay)
The Notorious Lone Wolf
(Story)
The Gal Who Took the West
(Screenplay)
Ladies' Man
(Story)
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
(Story)
Black Bart
(Screenplay)
Goodnight, August
(Sound Recordist)
The Countess of Monte Cristo
(Writer)
The Fabulous Suzanne
(Story)
Pitfall
(Screenplay)
Criss Cross
(Writer)
The Wild Wild West Revisited
(Writer)
The Girl on the Park Bench
(Writer)
Four Star Playhouse
(Writer)
General Electric Theater
(Writer)