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Paul Dehn (1912 - 1976) was a British screenwriter. He was born November 5, 1912 in Manchester, England, attended Oxford University (contributing film reviews to weekly undergraduate papers), and began his show-business career in 1936 as a movie reviewer for several London newspapers. He narrated the 1951 film Waters of Time and later wrote plays, operettas, and musicals for the stage. He wrote the lyrics for two films, The Innocents (1961) and Moulin Rouge (1952). In 1949/50 he met the composer James Bernard with whom he started a professional relationship but who also became his life partner. Paul Dehn asked James Bernard to collaborate with him on the original screen story for the Boulting Brothers film Seven Days to Noon (1950).Through the 1960s Dehn concentrated on several superior espionage films, notably The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965), and The Deadly Affair (1967). He later wrote the Planet of the Apes sequels. He died on September 30, 1976


During the Second World War he served as a major in the Special Forces from 1939 to 1945.