S. Gibney; Oscar-Winning Screen Writer
Sheridan Gibney, 84, who won an Academy Award in 1936 for his scenario of “The Story of Louis Pasteur” and who three times was president of the Screen Writers Guild, has died, Daily Variety reported this week.
The entertainment trade newspaper said he died of cancer April 10 at his retirement home in Missoula, Mont.
Educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and Amherst, Gibney was a playwright and literary critic in the 1920s before signing a Warner Bros. contract. His first film was “I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang,” which he wrote in 1932. His other credits included “Green Pastures,” “Anthony Adverse,” “Our Hearts Were Young and Gay,” which he also produced, and “The Locket.”
For television he contributed episodes of “Bachelor Father,” “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,” “The Six Million Dollar Man” and “Police Woman.”
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