Charles Lederer Quotes


Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.


Citations

Lederer, Charles. The Thing from Another World. RKO Radio Pictures, 1951.

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Charles Lederer
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.