Scenario writer for more than 20 motion pictures from 1932 until his death. Born in Ashley, Illinois to William H. Doyle and Emma Laird, he began his professional career as a newspaperman in San Francisco before joining KNX Radio as a writer-producer. Most of his film career was spent at Warner Brothers. Films he either adapted, wrote screenplays or dialogue for included "Sing and Like It" (1934), "Finishing School" (1934), "The Key" (1934), "Oil for the Lamps of China" (1935), "Front Page Woman" (1935), "Stars Over Broadway" (1935), "Special Agent" (1935), "Dangerous" (1935), "Hearts Divided" (1936), "Cain and Mabel" (1936), "Three Men On a Horse" (1936), "Strangers on Honeymoon" (1936), "The Prince and the Pauper" (1937) and "San Quentin" (1937). He died of a fractured skull and other multiple injuries at Physicians' and Surgeons' Hospital in Glendale, Calif. within an hour after the plane he was flying solo banked too steeply and crashed near the Grand Central Air Terminal in Glendale. He left his wife Mary and an infant daughter. His obituary appeared in the "Milestones" section of Time Magazine's Nov.16, 1936 issue. His final film credit, "Northwest Outpost" (1947), appeared over a decade after his premature death.
Scenario writer for more than 20 motion pictures from 1932 until his death. Born in Ashley, Illinois to William H. Doyle and Emma Laird, he began his professional career as a newspaperman in San Francisco before joining KNX Radio as a writer-producer. Most of his film career was spent at Warner Brothers. Films he either adapted, wrote screenplays or dialogue for included "Sing and Like It" (1934), "Finishing School" (1934), "The Key" (1934), "Oil for the Lamps of China" (1935), "Front Page Woman" (1935), "Stars Over Broadway" (1935), "Special Agent" (1935), "Dangerous" (1935), "Hearts Divided" (1936), "Cain and Mabel" (1936), "Three Men On a Horse" (1936), "Strangers on Honeymoon" (1936), "The Prince and the Pauper" (1937) and "San Quentin" (1937). He died of a fractured skull and other multiple injuries at Physicians' and Surgeons' Hospital in Glendale, Calif. within an hour after the plane he was flying solo banked too steeply and crashed near the Grand Central Air Terminal in Glendale. He left his wife Mary and an infant daughter. His obituary appeared in the "Milestones" section of Time Magazine's Nov.16, 1936 issue. His final film credit, "Northwest Outpost" (1947), appeared over a decade after his premature death.
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