Edmond Seward

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, director Ken G. Hall brought Seward to Australia to write movies and train Australian screenwriters for Cinesound Productions.^[2][3][4]

Seward ended up writing two films for Cinesound, Thoroughbred (1936)^[5] and Orphan of the Wilderness (1936),^[6] as well as adapting Thoroughbred into a novel.^[7] He soon returned to Hollywood, with Hall claiming the writer "had not been a bell-ringing success".^[8] Hall thought Seward may have been responsible for plagiarising the end of Thoroughbred from the Frank Capra film, Broadway Bill (1934).^[9]

Seward later worked for Screen Gems and wrote a number of scripts for The Bowery Boys.