CHARLES LEDERER

• Born: December 31, 1910
• Died: March 5, 1976
• Nationality: American
• Profession: Screenwriter, Film Director, Producer, Author

Charles Davies Lederer was an American screenwriter and film director. He was born into a prominent theatrical family in New York, and after his parents divorced, was raised in California by his aunt, Marion Davies, actress and mistress to newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst. A child prodigy, he entered the University of California, Berkeley at age 13, but dropped out after a few years to work as a journalist with Hearst's newspapers.