Biography
Edmund H. North (1911–1990) was an American screenwriter. He shared the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay with Francis Ford Coppola for their script for Patton (1970).
North wrote the screenplay for the science-fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) and is credited with originating the line “Klaatu barada nikto”. His other credits include In a Lonely Place (1950), Cowboy (1958), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), H.M.S. Defiant (1962) and Meteor (1979).
Born in New York City, North attended Culver Military Academy and Stanford University. During the Second World War he served as a major in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, producing training films. He was a former president of the screen branch of the Writers Guild of America.
