Writer Cyril Hume was born in New Rochelle, NY, in 1900. As a young man he joined the US Army and was assigned to the 219th Engineers, but left the service after only four months. In 1922 he enrolled at Yale University, but did not complete his studies there. He published his first novel, "Wife of the Centaur", in 1923, to generally positive reviews. He published several more novels over the next few years, to mixed reviews, and by 1930 he had basically given up novel writing to concentrate on screenplays (he wrote many entries in the "Tarzan" series for MGM). He is probably best known for writing the screenplay for the sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet (1956). He was the brother of actress Benita Hume and was at one time married to actress Helen Chandler. He died in Palos Verdes, California, in 1966.