Dore Schary

Screenwriter, film producer, and director, born in Newark, New Jersey, USA. Originally an actor, he turned to screenwriting in 1932, sharing an Oscar for Boys Town (1938). After holding various posts with several film companies, he became Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's chief of production (1948–56), and after his dismissal he went to New York to write and produce the play Sunrise at Campobello (1956). In subsequent years he worked in both the theatre and films as a writer, director, and producer, and he held public offices such as national chairman of B'Nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League and Commissioner of cultural affairs for New York City. He was also outspoken and active in promoting liberal causes, and was one of the few who openly resisted the blacklisting that occurred in the McCarthy era.

Dore Schary (born August 31, 1905 in Newark, New Jersey, United States - died July 7, 1980 in New York City) was a stage and motion picture personality.

Schary worked as a writer, director, and producer of motion pictures in Hollywood, California and in 1938 won the Academy Award for Best Story as co-writer of the screenplay for the film, Boys Town.

Following his departure from MGM, he wrote the Broadway play Sunrise at Campobello;

Although one of the studio executives who formulated the 1947 Waldorf Statement, he became an outspoken opponent of the witch-hunt for communists conducted by Joseph McCarthy that resulted in the Hollywood Blacklist.

Dore Schary died in 1980 and was interred in the Hebrew Cemetery, West Long Branch, New Jersey.