约翰·鲍德斯顿（John L. Balderston，1889 年 10 月 22 日出生于宾夕法尼亚州费城 - 1954 年 3 月 8 日出生于加利福尼亚州洛杉矶）是一位美国剧作家和编剧，以其恐怖和奇幻剧本而闻名。

鲍德斯顿的职业生涯始于记者。他在第一次世界大战期间担任欧洲战地记者。他曾是《展望》杂志的编辑和《纽约世界报》的记者。

1927年，他受霍勒斯·利夫赖特（Horace Liveright）的委托，修改了汉密尔顿·迪恩（Hamilton Deane）的《德古拉》（Dracula）的舞台改编版，使其在美国制作。他 1929 年的戏剧《伯克利广场》后来成为音乐剧《在晴朗的日子里，你可以永远看到》的基础。他的《德古拉》随后成为 1931 年电影版的基础，使鲍德斯顿进入了编剧生涯，最初是为环球影业的恐怖片创作的：除了《德古拉》，他还为《弗兰肯斯坦》、《弗兰肯斯坦的新娘》、《木乃伊》和《德古拉的女儿》做出了贡献。他职业生涯的大部分时间都在为银幕改编小说，包括 1937 年的《赞达的囚徒》和 1944 年的《煤气灯》，这为他赢得了第二次奥斯卡金像奖提名（第一次是 1935 年的《孟加拉枪骑兵的生活》）。他也是 1939 年合作改编电影《乱世佳人》的编剧团队之一。

他 1932 年的戏剧《红色星球》于 1952 年被拍摄为《火星红色星球》。

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John L. Balderston (October 22, 1889 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - March 8, 1954 Los Angeles, California) was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his horror and fantasy scripts.

Balderston began his career as a journalist. He worked as European war correspondent during World War I. He was the editor of Outlook magazine and a correspondent for the New York World.

In 1927, he was retained by Horace Liveright to revise Hamilton Deane's stage adaptation of Dracula for its American production. His 1929 play Berkeley Square later formed the basis of the musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. His Dracula subsequently formed the basis of the 1931 film version, leading Balderston into a screenwriting career, initially for Universal Pictures horror films: in addition to Dracula, he contributed to Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, The Mummy, and Dracula's Daughter. He spent much of his career adapting novels for the screen, including The Prisoner of Zenda in 1937 and 1944's Gaslight, which earned him his second Academy Award nomination (the first was for 1935's The Lives of a Bengal Lancer). He was also one of the team of writers who collaborated on the 1939 film adaptation of Gone with the Wind.

His 1932 play Red Planet was filmed as Red Planet Mars in 1952.

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