Walter Newman (screenwriter)

Walter Newman was born in New York City on 11 February 1916.

He was active as a screenwriter from the early 1950s to the early 1990s. Three of his screenplays were nominated for Academy Awards, but he is probably best known for a work that never made it to the screen -- his unproduced original script "Harrow Alley."

Walter Newman wrote the screenplay for the film The Magnificent Seven, which William Roberts and the director, John Sturges, modified during filming on location near Cuernavaca in Mexico. Displeased with the changes, Newman renounced his screenplay credit, leaving Roberts with sole credit for the screenplay. (Two years later, Newman would respond identically to changes made to his screenplay for The Great Escape, also directed by Sturges.)

Walter Newman died in Sherman Oaks, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, on 14 October 1993.