| Edmond Seward | |
| Birth Date: | September 26, 1906 |
| Birth Place: | Xenia, Ohio, United States |
| Alma Mater: | Northwestern University |
| Death Place: | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Occupation: | Screenwriter |
Edmond Seward (26 September 1906 – 12 February 1954) was a Hollywood screenwriter who had originally attended Northwestern University and worked as a journalist, before doing some writing for Disney.[1]
During the mid-1930s he was brought out to Australia by director Ken G. Hall, to write movies and train Australian screenwriters for Cinesound Productions.[2] [3]
"We hired him at one hundred pounds a week as a writer and he laughed at it, but he said he would like a trip to the South Seas, and he came for one hundred pounds a week and brought his wife", said Hall. "He didn't know all that much as it turned out."[4]
Seward ended up writing two films for Cinesound, Thoroughbred (1936) and Orphan of the Wilderness (1936), as well as adapting Thoroughbred into a novel.[5] He soon returned to Hollywood, with Hall claiming the writer "had not been a bell-ringing success".[6] Hall thought Seward may have been responsible for plagiarising the end of Thoroughbred from the Frank Capra film, Broadway Bill (1934).[7]
Seward later worked for Screen Gems and wrote a number of scripts for The Bowery Boys.