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class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Paul Dehn</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1912-11-05</span>)</span>5 November 1912<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Manchester" title="Manchester">Manchester</a>, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">30 September 1976<span style="display:none">(1976-09-30)</span> (aged 63)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Chelsea,_London" title="Chelsea, London">Chelsea, London</a>, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category">British</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data">1950–1974</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Paul Edward Dehn</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'d' in 'dye'">d</span><span title="/eɪ/: 'a' in 'face'">eɪ</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">DAYN</span></i></a>; 5 November 1912 – 30 September 1976) was a British screenwriter, best known for <i><a href="/wiki/Goldfinger_(film)" title="Goldfinger (film)">Goldfinger</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Spy_Who_Came_in_from_the_Cold_(film)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (film)">The Spy Who Came in from the Cold</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Planet_of_the_Apes" title="Planet of the Apes">Planet of the Apes</a></i> sequels and <i><a href="/wiki/Murder_on_the_Orient_Express_(1974_film)" title="Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)">Murder on the Orient Express</a></i>. Dehn and his life partner, <a href="/wiki/James_Bernard_(composer)" title="James Bernard (composer)">James Bernard</a>, won the <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Story" title="Academy Award for Best Story">Academy Award for Best Story</a> for <i><a href="/wiki/Seven_Days_to_Noon" title="Seven Days to Noon">Seven Days to Noon</a></i>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography_and_work">Biography and work</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Dehn&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography and work"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dehn was born in 1912 in <a href="/wiki/Manchester" title="Manchester">Manchester</a>, England. He was educated at <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury_School" title="Shrewsbury School">Shrewsbury School</a>, and attended <a href="/wiki/Brasenose_College,_Oxford" title="Brasenose College, Oxford">Brasenose College, Oxford</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While at Oxford, he contributed film reviews to weekly undergraduate papers. </p><p>He began his career in 1936 as a film reviewer for several London newspapers. He was film critic for the <i><a href="/wiki/News_Chronicle" title="News Chronicle">News Chronicle</a></i> until its closure in 1960 and then for the <i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Herald_(United_Kingdom)" title="Daily Herald (United Kingdom)">Daily Herald</a></i> until 1963.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, he was stationed at <a href="/wiki/Camp_X" title="Camp X">Camp X</a> in <a href="/wiki/Ontario" title="Ontario">Ontario</a>, <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a>. This was one of several training facilities operated by the British <a href="/wiki/Special_Operations_Executive" title="Special Operations Executive">Special Operations Executive</a> to train spies and special forces teams. According to the British writer and former spy <a href="/wiki/John_le_Carr%C3%A9" title="John le Carré">John le Carré</a>, Dehn worked in the Special Operations Executive <a href="/wiki/Special_Operations_Executive" title="Special Operations Executive">(SOE)</a> as an assassin during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was the Political Warfare officer from 1942 to 1944 and held the rank of Major. Dehn took part in missions in France and Norway.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He narrated the 1951 film <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Waters_of_Time&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Waters of Time (page does not exist)">Waters of Time</a></i> and later wrote plays, operettas and musicals for the stage. He wrote the lyrics for songs in two films, <i><a href="/wiki/Moulin_Rouge_(1952_film)" title="Moulin Rouge (1952 film)">Moulin Rouge</a></i> (1952) and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Innocents_(1961_film)" title="The Innocents (1961 film)">The Innocents</a></i> (1961). </p><p>In 1949 or 1950, Dehn began a collaboration with composer <a href="/wiki/James_Bernard_(composer)" title="James Bernard (composer)">James Bernard</a>. Dehn asked Bernard to collaborate with him on the original story for the <a href="/wiki/Boulting_Brothers" class="mw-redirect" title="Boulting Brothers">Boulting Brothers</a> film <i><a href="/wiki/Seven_Days_to_Noon" title="Seven Days to Noon">Seven Days to Noon</a></i> (1950). </p><p>Through the 1960s, Dehn concentrated on screenwriting for espionage films, including <i><a href="/wiki/Goldfinger_(film)" title="Goldfinger (film)">Goldfinger</a></i> (1964), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Spy_Who_Came_in_from_the_Cold_(film)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (film)">The Spy Who Came in from the Cold</a></i> (1965), and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Deadly_Affair" title="The Deadly Affair">The Deadly Affair</a></i> (1967). He later wrote the screenplays for the second, third, and fourth original <i><a href="/wiki/Planet_of_the_Apes" title="Planet of the Apes">Planet of the Apes</a></i> movies and received the story-by credit on the fifth. He wrote the <a href="/wiki/Libretto" title="Libretto">libretto</a> for <a href="/wiki/William_Walton" title="William Walton">William Walton</a>'s opera <i><a href="/wiki/The_Bear_(opera)" title="The Bear (opera)">The Bear</a></i> and two by <a href="/wiki/Lennox_Berkeley" title="Lennox Berkeley">Lennox Berkeley</a>; <i><a href="/wiki/A_Dinner_Engagement" title="A Dinner Engagement">A Dinner Engagement</a></i> and <i>Castaway</i>. </p><p>His last screenplay was for <a href="/wiki/Sidney_Lumet" title="Sidney Lumet">Sidney Lumet</a>'s all-star <i><a href="/wiki/Murder_on_the_Orient_Express_(1974_film)" title="Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)">Murder on the Orient Express</a></i> (1974), based on the <a href="/wiki/Agatha_Christie" title="Agatha Christie">Agatha Christie</a> <a href="/wiki/Whodunit" title="Whodunit">whodunit</a>, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. </p><p>Dehn resurrected or reinvented at least three genres given up for dead at the time; the British mystery, the Shakespeare adaptation, and the spy film.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Screenplays">Screenplays</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Dehn&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Screenplays"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Seven_Days_to_Noon" title="Seven Days to Noon">Seven Days to Noon</a></i> (1950)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Waters_of_Time&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Waters of Time (page does not exist)">Waters of Time</a></i> (1951) (documentary)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/On_Such_a_Night_(1956_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="On Such a Night (1956 film)">On Such a Night</a></i> (1956)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Orders_to_Kill" title="Orders to Kill">Orders to Kill</a></i> (1958)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/ITV_Play_of_the_Week" class="mw-redirect" title="ITV Play of the Week">ITV Play of the Week</a></i> - adaptation of <i><a href="/wiki/A_Woman_of_No_Importance" title="A Woman of No Importance">A Woman of No Importance</a></i> (1960)</li> <li><i>A Place for Gold</i> (1960) (documentary)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Goldfinger_(film)" title="Goldfinger (film)">Goldfinger</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Spy_Who_Came_In_from_the_Cold_(film)" title="The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (film)">The Spy Who Came in from the Cold</a></i> (1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Deadly_Affair" title="The Deadly Affair">The Deadly Affair</a></i> (1967)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Night_of_the_Generals" title="The Night of the Generals">The Night of the Generals</a></i> (1967)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Taming_of_the_Shrew_(1967_film)" title="The Taming of the Shrew (1967 film)">The Taming of the Shrew</a></i> (1967)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Beryl_Reid_Says_Good_Evening&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Beryl Reid Says Good Evening (page does not exist)">Beryl Reid Says Good Evening</a></i> (1968)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Beneath_the_Planet_of_the_Apes" title="Beneath the Planet of the Apes">Beneath the Planet of the Apes</a></i> (1970)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fragment_of_Fear" title="Fragment of Fear">Fragment of Fear</a></i> (1970) - also associate producer</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Escape_from_the_Planet_of_the_Apes" title="Escape from the Planet of the Apes">Escape from the Planet of the Apes</a></i> (1971)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Conquest_of_the_Planet_of_the_Apes" title="Conquest of the Planet of the Apes">Conquest of the Planet of the Apes</a></i> (1972)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Battle_for_the_Planet_of_the_Apes" title="Battle for the Planet of the Apes">Battle for the Planet of the Apes</a></i> (1973)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Murder_on_the_Orient_Express_(1974_film)" title="Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)">Murder on the Orient Express</a></i> (1974)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_nominations">Awards and nominations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Dehn&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Awards and nominations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Academy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Academy Award">Academy Award</a> for '<a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Story" title="Academy Award for Best Story">Writing, (Motion Picture Story)</a>', 1952 for <i>Seven Days to Noon</i><sup id="cite_ref-oscar-seven-days_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oscar-seven-days-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BAFTA" class="mw-redirect" title="BAFTA">BAFTA</a> Award Nomination for Best British Screenplay, 1959</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edgar_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Edgar Award">Edgar Allan Poe Award</a> for Best American Film, 1965</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Writers_Guild_of_America" title="Writers Guild of America">Writers Guild of America</a> Award Nomination for Best American Drama, 1966</li> <li>Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture, 1966</li> <li>BAFTA Award Nomination for Best British Screenplay, 1968</li> <li>Edgar Allan Poe Award Nomination for Best Motion Picture, 1974</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Writers_Guild_of_Britain&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Writers Guild of Britain (page does not exist)">Writers Guild of Britain</a> Award for Best British Screenplay, 1974</li> <li>Academy Award Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, 1975</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHarrison2010" class="citation news cs1">Harrison, David (17 April 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7601274/The-secret-war-mission-that-inspired-Goldfinger-scene.html">"The secret war mission that inspired Goldfinger scene"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=The+secret+war+mission+that+inspired+Goldfinger+scene&rft.date=2010-04-17&rft.aulast=Harrison&rft.aufirst=David&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fnewstopics%2Fhowaboutthat%2F7601274%2FThe-secret-war-mission-that-inspired-Goldfinger-scene.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APaul+Dehn" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link 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href="/wiki/Frank_Harvey_(English_screenwriter)" title="Frank Harvey (English screenwriter)">Frank Harvey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Boulting_brothers" title="Boulting brothers">John Boulting</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alan_Hackney" title="Alan Hackney">Alan Hackney</a> (1959)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bryan_Forbes" title="Bryan Forbes">Bryan Forbes</a> (1960)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Wolf_Mankowitz" title="Wolf Mankowitz">Wolf Mankowitz</a> and <a href="/wiki/Val_Guest" title="Val Guest">Val Guest</a> / <a href="/wiki/Shelagh_Delaney" title="Shelagh Delaney">Shelagh Delaney</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tony_Richardson" title="Tony Richardson">Tony Richardson</a> (1961)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Bolt" title="Robert Bolt">Robert Bolt</a> (1962)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Osborne" title="John Osborne">John Osborne</a> (1963)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Harold_Pinter" title="Harold Pinter">Harold Pinter</a> (1964)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Frederic_Raphael" title="Frederic Raphael">Frederic Raphael</a> (1965)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/David_Mercer_(playwright)" title="David Mercer (playwright)">David Mercer</a> (1966)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Bolt" title="Robert Bolt">Robert Bolt</a> (1967)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Edgar_Allan_Poe_Award_for_Best_Motion_Picture_Screenplay" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" 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title="Quentin Reynolds">Quentin Reynolds</a> (1949)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1950s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mel_Dinelli" title="Mel Dinelli">Mel Dinelli</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cornell_Woolrich" title="Cornell Woolrich">Cornell Woolrich</a> (1950)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Maddow" title="Ben Maddow">Ben Maddow</a> (1951)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Wilson_(writer)" title="Michael Wilson (writer)">Michael Wilson</a> (1952)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Wilson_(writer)" title="Michael Wilson (writer)">Michael Wilson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Otto_Lang_(film_producer)" title="Otto Lang (film producer)">Otto Lang</a> (1953)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sydney_Boehm" title="Sydney Boehm">Sydney Boehm</a> (1954)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Michael_Hayes" title="John Michael Hayes">John Michael Hayes</a> (1955)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Hayes_(author)" title="Joseph Hayes (author)">Joseph Hayes</a> (1956)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reginald_Rose" title="Reginald Rose">Reginald Rose</a> (1958)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nedrick_Young" title="Nedrick Young">Nathan E. 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Wallace">Earl W. Wallace</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/E._Max_Frye" title="E. Max Frye">E. Max Frye</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Kouf" title="Jim Kouf">Jim Kouf</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Errol_Morris" title="Errol Morris">Errol Morris</a> (1989)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1990s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Waters_(screenwriter)" title="Daniel Waters (screenwriter)">Daniel Waters</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_E._Westlake" title="Donald E. Westlake">Donald E. Westlake</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ted_Tally" title="Ted Tally">Ted Tally</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Tolkin" title="Michael Tolkin">Michael Tolkin</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ebbe_Roe_Smith" title="Ebbe Roe Smith">Ebbe Roe Smith</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quentin_Tarantino" title="Quentin Tarantino">Quentin Tarantino</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_McQuarrie" title="Christopher McQuarrie">Christopher McQuarrie</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billy_Bob_Thornton" title="Billy Bob Thornton">Billy Bob Thornton</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Curtis_Hanson" title="Curtis Hanson">Curtis Hanson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brian_Helgeland" title="Brian Helgeland">Brian Helgeland</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scott_Frank" title="Scott Frank">Scott Frank</a> and <a href="/wiki/Elmore_Leonard" title="Elmore Leonard">Elmore Leonard</a> (1999)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" 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Baer</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Monahan" title="William Monahan">William Monahan</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Gilroy" title="Tony Gilroy">Tony Gilroy</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_McDonagh" title="Martin McDonagh">Martin McDonagh</a> (2009)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox authority-control" aria-labelledby="Authority_control_databases_frameless&#124;text-top&#124;10px&#124;alt=Edit_this_at_Wikidata&#124;link=https&#58;//www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q678500#identifiers&#124;class=noprint&#124;Edit_this_at_Wikidata" 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