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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 (1907-1989) T.E.B. Clarke. 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. He also had jobs on Fleet Street, worked in advertising ...
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Jun 3, 2024 · T.E.B. Clarke (born June 7, 1907, Watford, Hertfordshire, Eng.—died Feb. 11, 1989, London) 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.
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. He also had jobs on Fleet Street, worked in advertising, as a door-to-door salesman, briefly served in ...
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Feb 5, 2010 · On CLARKE: articles— Obituary in Variety (New York), 15 February 1989. Obituary in Skoop , April 1989. If any one person can be credited with inventing Ealing Comedy, it would have to be T. E. B. Clarke.
If any one person can be credited with inventing Ealing Comedy, it would have to be T. E. B. Clarke. Not that Michael Balcon's studio had produced no comedies prior to Clarke's arrival; but they had largely been vehicles for such superannuated British comics as George Formby or Will Hay—crude, slapdash productions in the broad music-hall ...
