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T. E. B. Clarke. Thomas Ernest Bennett " Tibby " Clarke, OBE (7 June 1907 – 11 February 1989) was a film screenwriter who wrote several of the Ealing Studios comedies.
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.
- January 1, 1
- Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK
- January 1, 1
- Surrey, England, UK
T.E.B. Clarke 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
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
T. E. B. Clarke is known as an Screenplay, Writer, Actor, Additional Dialogue, and Script Consultant. Some of his work includes Dead of Night, The Lavender Hill Mob, Passport to Pimlico, The Titfield Thunderbolt, The Blue Lamp, Hue and Cry, Sons and Lovers, and Gideon's Day.
CLARKE, T. E. B. Writer. Nationality: British. Born: Thomas Ernest Bennett Clarke in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, 7 June 1907. Education: Attended Cambridge University. Lived in Australia (where he edited the magazine The Red Heart) and Argentina in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Family: Married Joyce Steel, 1932 (died 1983); two children.
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