Wells Crosby Root (March 21, 1900 – March 9, 1993) was an American

screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...

and

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. In the mid-1930s he was involved with the

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and in the 1950s the

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asked him to teach Film and Television Writing Technique, where he worked during the next twenty years.

Filmography

Films

Television

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Root, Wells 1900 births 1993 deaths American film directors American male screenwriters Screenwriters from New York (state) University of Southern California faculty Writers from Buffalo, New York 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American screenwriters