Director

Noel Langley

Writing

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Directed movies: 4Directed series: 0All crew credits: 31

TMDB ID: 9052

IMDb ID: nm0486538

Known for: Writing

Born: December 25, 1911

Died: November 4, 1980

Age: 68

Place of birth: South Africa

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1936 - 2006

Years active: 71

Average TMDB rating: 6.55

Wikidata: Q1163080

Also known as

Ноэль Лэнгли • Ноэль Ленгли

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Biography

Noel Langley was a South African-born (later naturalised American) novelist, playwright, screenwriter and director. He wrote the screenplay which formed the basis for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz and is one of the three credited screenwriters for the film. His finished script for the film was revised by Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf, the other credited screenwriters. Langley objected to their changes and lamented the final cut upon first seeing it, but later revised his opinion. He attempted to write a sequel based on The Marvelous Land of Oz using many of the concepts he had added to its predecessor, but this was never released.

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