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Charles Bennett
Sign in to saveAlso known as Charles Alfred Selwyn Bennett
English screenwriter (1899-1995)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 41
Top works
- What Does the Holy Bible Really Say?
- Broken but Not Destroyed
- New Latin Grammar by Charles E. Bennett
- New Latin Grammar
- 2016 : the Fall of America
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Film & TV
Shoreham-by-Sea, England
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, "Blackmail," into a screenplay for production under the direction of Alfred Hitchcock.…
Known for
- A State of Emergency — Charlie1986
- The 39 Steps — Second Passerby Near the Bus (uncredited)1935
- Hobbled Hearts1917
- The Rainbow Girl — Amos Divine1917
- John Halifax, Gentleman — John as a Child1915
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 66
- Total plays
- 140
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Charles
- Family name
- Bennett
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Shoreham-by-Sea
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
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- date of birth
- 1899-08-02
- date of death
- 1995-06-15
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
- different from
- Charles Bennett
- member of
- Writers Guild of America West
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