Richard Schayer

Emerging from a Washington, D.C. family that combined military service-his father was Colonel George Frederick Schayer-and literary influence through his mother, writer Julia Schayer, he entered the motion-picture world as a screenwriter. Over a forty-year span he supplied scripts for more than one hundred productions, beginning in the silent era of 1916 and extending to the mid-1950s, a period th… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources