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Academy Award for Best Story and Screenplay. 1952 The Lavender Hill Mob. Thomas Ernest Bennett " Tibby " Clarke, OBE (7 June 1907 – 11 February 1989) was a film screenwriter who wrote several of the Ealing Studios comedies.
- Joyce Caroline Steele (1932–1983)
- Thomas Ernest Bennett Clarke, 7 June 1907, Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK
- 1944–1980
- 11 February 1989 (aged 81), Surrey, England, UK
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Died February 11, 1989 (81) Add to list. Won 1 Oscar. 2 wins & 4 nominations total. Known for. The Lavender Hill Mob. 7.5. Writer. 1951. Sons and Lovers. 7.1.
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- Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK
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- Surrey, England, UK
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.
- June 7, 1907
- February 11, 1989
The film was written by T. E. B. Clarke and was inspired by the restoration of the narrow gauge Talyllyn Railway in Wales, the world's first heritage railway run by volunteers. "Titfield" is an amalgamation of the names Titsey and Limpsfield , two villages in Surrey near Clarke's home at Oxted .
Thomas Ernest Bennett Clarke (known almost universally as 'Tibby') was one of the key architects of the iconic cycle of comedies made at Ealing Studios from the late 1940s to the early 50s, still among the most cherished films in the canon of British cinema.
