Claim: Planet of the Apes (1968 film) was written by someone from America.

Michael Wilson -LRB- July 1 , 1914 -- April 9 , 1978 -RRB- was an American screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood film studios during the era of McCarthyism for being a communist .   Wilson was born and raised Roman Catholic in McAlester , Oklahoma . He graduated from UC Berkeley in 1936 . He taught English and began his writing career with short stories for magazines . Then , starting in 1941 , he wrote or co-wrote 22 screenplays .