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Charles Alfred Selwyn Bennett (2 August 1899 – 15 June 1995) was an English playwright, screenwriter and director probably best known for his work with Alfred Hitchcock.
Writer: Foreign Correspondent. Born just before the century turned, Charles Bennett made his writing debut as a child in 1911, fought in France during World War I while still a teen and resumed his acting career after the war's end. In 1926 he dropped acting to concentrate on being a playwright, later turning one of his most famous plays ...
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- Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, England, UK
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With a career that spanned from the silent era to the 1990s, British screenwriter Charles Bennett(1899-1995) lived an extraordinary life. His experiences as an actor, director, playwright, film and television writer, and novelist in both England and Hollywood left him with many amusing anecdotes, opinions about his craft, and impressions of the ...
May 2, 2014 · Now, thanks to “Hitchcock’s Partner in Suspense,” a posthumous memoir by screenwriter Charles Bennett (1899-1995), we know that Tourneur wasn’t the only one infuriated by RKO’s failure ...
Writer, Director. Perhaps Alfred Hitchcock's most influential collaborator during the 1930s, screenwriter Charles Bennett has only recently been given some credit for the wit, structure and tone of those beguiling entertainments that preceded the departure of both director and writer for Hollywood. He complained in later life that the director ...
Charles Bennett (1899-1995) was a British playwright and screenwriter, probably best known for his work with Alfred Hitchcock . Born Charles Alfred Selwyn Bennett in Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, he was the son of unmarried actress Lilian Langrishe Bennett. Following the death of his older brother Frederick in 1915, he enlisted underage and served ...
Jun 21, 1995 · Charles Bennett, screenwriter, director, dramatist, actor: born Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex 2 August 1899; twice married; died Los Angeles 15 June 1995. Charles Bennett will be remembered for...
