C. Gardner Sullivan
C. Gardner Sullivan was an American screenwriter and film producer. He was a prolific writer with more than 350 films among his credits. In 1924 the magazine Story World selected him on a list of the ten individuals who had contributed the most to the advancement of the motion picture industry from its inception forward. Four of Sullivans films, The Italian , Civilization , Hells Hinges and All Quiet on the Western Front , have been listed in the National Film Registry.
Sullivan was born in Stillwater, Minnesota and educated in the public schools of St. Paul, Minnesota. Interviewed in 1916, Sullivan said he was not precisely what one would call a college man, although I had some training at the University of Minnesota.
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