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T.E.B. Clarke

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In full:
Thomas Ernest Bennett Clarke
Born:
June 7, 1907, Watford, Hertfordshire, Eng.
Died:
Feb. 11, 1989, London (aged 81)
Awards And Honors:
Academy Award (1953)

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. He scripted several dramatic motion pictures, notably The Blue Lamp (1950), but received international fame for such comedies as the Oscar-nominated Passport to Pimlico (1949), Hue and Cry (1950), the Academy Award-winning The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953), and Barnacle Bill (1957). After Ealing Studios ...(100 of 141 words)

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