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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. Stannard wrote the screenplay for more than 80 films between 1914 and 1933, including eight films directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He also directed ...
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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, Londonbaptised 10/Mar/1888 at St Mary, Putneyson 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, Yorkshirebrother 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.Eliot Stannard. Writer: The Laughing Cavalier. 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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Mar 8, 2015 · Eliot Cardella Stannard was born on 1 March 1888 in Wansworth, London, along with a twin sister, Violet Mignon Stannard. As well as his twin, there was an older sister, Audrey Noel Palmer Stannard (1884-1912), a sister who died before his birth, Dorothy Katharine Palmer Stannard (1885-1886), and a younger sister, Olive Nancy Stannard (1895-1975).
Eliot Stannard. Writer: The Laughing Cavalier. 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).
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. He also directed five films. During the early 1920s, he worked on most of the screenplays for the Ideal Film Company, one of Britain's leading silent film studios. [biography ...
Hitchcock’s Forgotten Screenwriter: Eliot Stannard 133 that he turned out so many, so fast. His mother Henrietta was a novelist who had written since the age of 14 and, under the pseudonym of John Strange Winter, wrote over 100 popular novels until her death in 1911.2 She mar-ried Arthur Stannard, a civil engineer who had worked on railway ...
