Biography
The son of playwright/theatrical director Bayard Veiller and actress
Margaret Wycherly, Anthony Veiller received a liberal arts education at Ohio's Antioch College. After experience as a theater manager and film publicist, Veiller turned to screenwriting in 1932. Eight years later he became a producer at Paramount Pictures. He co-scripted a handful of the
Why We Fight propaganda films of the 1940s, narrating the 1942 entry
The Battle of Russia. From 1949 to 1952, he was a staff producer at Warner Bros. After the independently produced
Red Planet Mars (1952), Veiller returned exclusively to screenwriting until his retirement in 1962; among his later credits were the
John Huston efforts
The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) and
Night of the Iguana (1964). Anthony Veiller shared Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar nominations for
Stage Door (1937) and
The Killers (1946). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide