Which author co-wrote the screenplay for the 1956 film "Moby Dick"?

Ray Bradbury co-wrote the screenplay for the 1956 film Moby Dick.

The film was directed and produced by John Huston, who adapted Herman Melville’s novel with Bradbury. Huston had long wanted to make a screen version of the book, and Bradbury was brought in to help convert its dense, highly descriptive prose into a workable screenplay. Huston also received screenplay credit, so Bradbury was a co-writer rather than the sole screenwriter.

The collaboration is notable because Bradbury later described the production as difficult, and the film’s development became part of the story behind his later writing about Ireland and filmmaking. The finished movie stars Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab, Richard Basehart as Ishmael, and Leo Genn as Starbuck, with Orson Welles appearing as Father Mapple. It was released in 1956 as a British-American adventure film. Rod Serling, Arthur C. Clarke, and Isaac Asimov are plausible-sounding alternatives because all were prominent writers associated with speculative or screen-related work, but none co-wrote this adaptation.