Karl Tunberg

Karl Tunberg (11 March 1909 – 3 April 1992) was an American screenwriter and occasional film producer.

Born in Spokane, Washington, Tunberg, when still a child, migrated to southern California with his mother and brother William Tunberg. Karl was doing postgraduate study in English at the University of Southern California, when he started writing for films. His career in screenwriting, at first usually in association with other writers, began in the late 1930s. His first feature film was You Can't Have Everything (1937), after which he provided scripts for several comedies and musicals featuring such stars as Betty Grable, Sonja Henie, Deanna Durbin, Dorothy Lamour and Shirley Temple. Among his credits are My Gal Sal (1942), Standing Room Only (1944), Kitty (1945) both with Paulette Goddard, Because You're Mine (1952), Valley of the Kings (1954), Beau Brummell (1954), The Seventh Sin (1957), Count Your Blessings (1959), Libel (1959), and Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968). He was nominated for two Academy Awards.

He is best-known for Ben Hur for which he received the only screenwriting credit, despite the fact that the director William Wyler had enlisted other writers such as Maxwell Anderson, Christopher Fry and Gore Vidal for the screenplay.

He was the father of Terence Tunberg, professor of Latin.

Tunberg died in London.

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