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.
Birthday: December 12, 1914
Death: February 10, 1987
February 19, 1974
December 08, 1955
November 07, 1963
May 25, 1966
April 09, 1957
August 22, 1967
May 28, 1953
January 24, 1957
February 25, 1954
February 02, 1949
January 02, 1958
February 10, 1952
September 28, 1948
October 02, 1955
August 21, 1950
September 07, 2007
January 02, 1970
June 01, 1952
January 01, 1966
March 25, 2004
December 11, 1967
January 01, 1951
May 02, 1986