James Clavell
Sign in to saveAmerican novelist (1921-1994)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 10 October 1924
- Died
- 7 September 1994
- Works
- 154
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Film & TV
Writing · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
James Clavell, born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell (10 October 1924 – 7 September 1994) was an Australian (later naturalized American) novelist, screenwriter, director and World War II veteran and prisoner of war. Clavell is best known for his epic Asian Saga series of novels and their televised adaptations, along with such films as The Great Escape and To Sir, with Love.
Known for
- The Making of Shōgun2003
- World in Action1963
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 349
- Total plays
- 7,011
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 75,924x
- Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations
· 1976 · cited 66,940x
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 64,727x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,272x
- Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.
· 1988 · cited 31,163x
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Key facts
- Born
- Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell , ( 1921-10-10 ) 10 October 1921, Sydney , Australia
- Died
- 7 September 1994 (1994-09-07) (aged 72), Vevey , Switzerland
- Occupation
- Novelist screenwriter director
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom United States (after 1963)
- Period
- 1958–1993
- Spouse
- April Stride ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1949 )
- Children
- Michaela Clavell Holly Clavell Petra Brando-Corval
- Allegiance
- United Kingdom
- Branch
- British Army
- Service years
- 1940–1948
- Rank
- Captain
- Unit
- Royal Artillery
- Conflicts
Key dates
- Born
- 10 October 1921
- Died
- 6 September 1994
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- James
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Sydney
- Place of death
- Vevey
- Occupation
- director
- Educated at
- University of Birmingham
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Shōgun
Article
Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell (10 October 1921 – 7 September 1994), known as James Clavell, was a British and American writer, filmmaker and a British Army officer during the Second World War. He is best known for his Asian Saga novels, a number of which have had television and film adaptations.
Clavell also wrote such screenplays as those for The Fly (1958), based on the short story by George Langelaan, and The Great Escape (1963), based on the personal account of Paul Brickhill. He directed the popular 1967 film To Sir, with Love, for which he also wrote the script.
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1921 births1994 deaths20th-century American male writers20th-century American novelists20th-century American screenwriters20th-century Australian novelistsAlumni of the University of BirminghamAmerican film directorsAmerican male novelistsAmerican male screenwritersAustralian expatriates in SwitzerlandAustralian male novelists