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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.
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- 1 March 1888, Wandsworth, London, England
- 1914–1933
- 21 November 1944 (aged 56), Kensington, London, England
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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 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). He was married to Patricia Bingham-Johns. He died on 21 November 1944 in Kensington, London, England, UK.
- Writer, Director, Actor
- March 1, 1888
- Eliot Stannard
- November 21, 1944
Mar 8, 2015 · Eliot Stannard spent the remainder of his life living in a series of rented rooms, although seemingly not always alone. In 1933, Eliot is living with one “Dorothy Stannard”. Eliot had not married and Dorothy is not a relative.
Eliot Stannard (1888–1944) Eliot Stannard was Alfred Hitchock’s first major screenwriter, and was prob-ably the most prolific, perhaps most successful British screenwriter in the silent era. His career closely follows the ‘second wave’ of screenwriting prac-tice during the 1910s and 1920s, lasting through the industry slump of 1924
- Ian W. Macdonald
- 2013
May 21, 2010 · The significant screenwriting collaborations in the career of Alfred Hitchcock are detailed in this article by Writing with Hitchcock author, Steven DeRosa. Collaborations discussed include those with Eliot Stannard, Charles Bennet, Ben Hecht, John Michael Hayes, Samuel Taylor, Ernest Lehman, and Joseph Stefano.
Stannard gained his introduction to film in 1914 through the work of his mother, a once bestselling novelist who published under the nom-de-plume of John Strange Winter. Though most of the films he wrote are now unfortunately lost, he deserves lasting recognition as one of the first English screenwriters to think seriously and write publicly ...
