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T. E. B. Clarke. Thomas Ernest Bennett " Tibby " Clarke, OBE (7 June 1907 – 11 February 1989) was a film screenwriter who wrote several of the Ealing Studios comedies.
T.E.B. Clarke. Writer: The Lavender Hill Mob. T.E.B. 'Tibby' Clarke graduated with a law degree from Cambridge University, but decided that writing was more his forte. He started on that career path first as writer for a magazine in Australia, than back in London freelancing as a journalist.
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T.E.B. Clarke. Writer: The Lavender Hill Mob. T.E.B. 'Tibby' Clarke graduated with a law degree from Cambridge University, but decided that writing was more his forte. He started on that career path first as writer for a magazine in Australia, than back in London freelancing as a journalist.
- June 7, 1907
- February 11, 1989
Jun 3, 2024 · T.E.B. Clarke was a British screenwriter who wrote the scripts for some of the most popular British comedies of the post-World War II period. Clarke worked as a free-lance journalist and novelist before joining Ealing Studios as a writer in 1943.
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Feb 15, 1989 · The British screenwriter T. E. B. Clarke, whose screenplays included the Academy Award-winning script for ''The Lavender Hill Mob,'' died of cancer here on Saturday. He was 81 years old.
Clarke, T.E.B. (1907-1989) Writer Thomas Ernest Bennett Clarke (known almost universally as 'Tibby') was one of the key architects of the iconic cycle of comedies made at Ealing Studios from the late 1940s to the early 50s, still among the most cherished films in the canon of British cinema.
T. E. B. Clarke is known as an Screenplay, Writer, Actor, and Additional Dialogue. Some of his work includes Dead of Night, The Lavender Hill Mob, Passport to Pimlico, The Titfield Thunderbolt, The Blue Lamp, Hue and Cry, Sons and Lovers, and Gideon's Day.
