premise: Edmund H. North was a songwriter.
hypothesis: Edmund Hall North ( March 12 , 1911 -- August 28 , 1990 ) , was an American screenwriter who shared an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay with Francis Ford Coppola in 1970 for their script for Patton . North wrote the screenplay for the 1951 science-fiction classic The Day the Earth Stood Still and is credited for creating the famous line from the film , `` Klaatu barada nikto '' . North began writing plays while attending Culver Military Academy in Indiana and at Stanford University .