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  1. Eliot Stannard (1 March 1888 – 21 November 1944) was an English screenwriter and director. He was the son of civil engineer Arthur Stannard and Yorkshire-born novelist Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Palmer.

  2. Eliot Stannard was born on 1 March 1888 in Putney, London, England, UK. He was a writer and director, known for The Laughing Cavalier (1917), The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) and Profit and the Loss (1917).

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    Despite being a highly important figure in the early years of British cinema — he wrote the scenarios for at least 150 silent films, including 8 of the early Hitchcock films — comparatively little is known of Stannard's life. Together with his twin sister, Violet Mignon Stannard, he was born in March 1888. His father, Arthur, worked as a civil engi...

    With Hitchcock... 1. The Pleasure Garden(1925) - writer 2. The Mountain Eagle(1926) - writer 3. Downhill(1927) - writer: adaptation 4. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog(1927) - writer: scenario 5. The Ring(1927) - writer: script collaborator (uncredited) 6. Champagne(1928) - writer 7. Easy Virtue(1928) - writer: scenario 8. The Farmer's Wife(19...

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    born 01/Mar/1888 in Putney, Wandsworth, London
    baptised 10/Mar/1888 at St Mary, Putney
    son of civil engineer and company director Arthur Stannard (b. ~1854) and novelist Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard (b. 1856) née Palmer, who married 1884 in York, Yorkshire
    brother of Audrey Noel Palmer Stannard (b. 1884), Dorothy Katharine Palmer Stannard (b. 1885), Violet Mignon Stannard (b. 1888)and Olive Nancy (Margaret Louise Henrietta Josephine) Stannard (b. 1895)
    Jump up According to an advertisement for Filmophone Limited, which appeared in The Times(19/Dec/1928), Stannard wrote over 400 scenarios.
    Jump up Wikipedia: John Strange Winter.
    Jump up The novel can be read online as part of the Women's Genre Fiction Project.
    Jump up Named as the "Toilet Preparation Company" on the 1911 Census, but likely simply meant a company which manufactured toilets.
  3. Mar 8, 2015 · On 29 September 1916, Eliot Stannard stood in the Registry Office of St. Giles, London, and married 29-year-old widow, Patricia Bingham Johns, resident of 85 Holbein House, Sloane Square, London. The couple appear to have lived together at Holbein House until around 1930 and then they seemingly separated but didn’t divorce.

  4. Eliot Stannard was born on 1 March 1888 in Putney, London, England, UK. He was a writer and director, known for The Laughing Cavalier (1917), The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) and Profit and the Loss (1917).

  5. Eliot Stannard (1 March 1888 – 21 November 1944) was an English screenwriter and director. Stannard wrote the screenplay for more than 80 films between 1914 and 1933, including eight films directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

  6. May 21, 2010 · Stannard was a ten-year veteran of the British film industry with more than fifty scripts to his credit when he wrote Hitchcock’s first five films for Gainsborough, including the breakthrough thriller, The Lodger.