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For the American producer (1920-2009) see Charles Schneer.Charles Schnee (6 August 1916 Bridgeport Connecticut – 29 November 1963 Beverly Hills California) gave up law to become a screenwriter in the mid-1940s crafting scripts for the classic Westerns Red River (1948) and The Furies (1950) the social melodrama They Live By Night (1949) and the cynical Hollywood saga The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) for which he won an Academy Award.