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Richard Schayer (December 13, 1880 – March 13, 1956) was an American screenwriter. He wrote for more than 100 films between 1916 and 1956. He was born in Washington, D.C., son of Col. George Frederick Schayer and writer Julia Schayer, and died in Hollywood, California.
Richard Schayer. Writer: Frankenstein. Richard Schayer was an American screenwriter from Washington, D.C., active from 1916 to his death in 1956. He wrote or co-wrote the scripts for nearly a 100 films, and he was a prolific writer of Westerns.
- Richard Schayer
- March 15, 1956
- December 13, 1880
Schayer worked on over 100 films between 1916 and 1956 as screenwriter and dialogue editor. He is associated with a wide range of actors from this period, including Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, Hoot Gibson, William Haines, Sessue Hayakawa, William Holden, Tab
Richard Schayer is known as an Writer, Screenplay, Scenario Writer, Story, Adaptation, Continuity, Teleplay, Associate Producer, Script Editor, Dialogue, Screenstory, Other, and treatment. Some of his work includes Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Cameraman, Waterloo Bridge, Kim, Arizona Raiders, Black Magic, and Tell It to the Marines.
Written by: John L. Balderston (Screenplay), Richard Schayer (Story), Nina Wilcox Putnam (Story) Script Synopsis: An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when an archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the archaeologists accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell.
John Carradine turned down the part of the Monster because he considered himself too highly trained to be reduced to playing monsters. In one scene, the monster ( Boris Karloff) walks through a forest and comes upon a little girl, Maria, who is throwing flowers into a pond.
In 19th Century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets failure as the abducted women die.
