Charles Bennett

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AKA: Charles Alfred Bennett
Nationality: English
Birthdate: 08/02/1899
Birthplace: Shoreham-by-Sea, England, United Kingdom
Death Date: 06/15/1995

biography

Playwright whose first film writing credit was as co-adaptor--with director Alfred Hitchcock--of his own play, "Blackmail" (1929), which also happened to be the first sound film produced in England. Bennett's knack for tense adventure stories fuelled such subsequent Hitchcock outings as "The 39 Steps" (1935) and "Foreign Correspondent" (1940). He also scripted the first screen version of the classic adventure yarn "King Solomon's Mines" (1937) and, in the mid-1950s, began a multi-film association with producer-director Irwin Allen (e.g. "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" 1961, "Five Weeks in a Continued

Credits

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1958
From Story
1940
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1940
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1938
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1935
adaptation
1935
screenplay
1929
Play as Source Material
1929
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Screenplay

milestones

Year
Milestone
1914 
Film acting debut, "Tillie's Punctured Romance"
 
Served in WWI
1929 
First screenplay (from play), first collaborated and co-wrote with Alfred Hitchcock, "Blackmail"; Britain's first produced sound film
1937 
Wrote original script, "King Solomon's Mines"
1937 
Relocated to USA
Continued

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