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Howard Clewes

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Died
  
January 29, 1988

Role
  
Screenwriter

Name
  
Howard Clewes

Years active
  
1938-1979


Born
  
27 October 1912 (
1912-10-27
)
York, England

Books
  
The long memory, Man on a Horse, I, the King, The Unforgiven

Ex-spouse
  
Renata Faccincani della Torre

Nominations
  
BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay

Movies
  
The Long Memory, The One That Got Away, The Day They Robbed t, Green Grow the Rushes, That Man in Istanbul

Similar People
  
James Leasor, Robert Hamer, Roy Ward Baker, John Guillermin, Antonio Isasi‑Isasmendi

Occupation
  
Screenwriter, Novelist

Howard Clewes (27 October 1912 – 29 January 1988) was an English screenwriter and novelist. He wrote for eight films between 1951 and 1974. He also wrote twenty action novels from 1938 to 1979.

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He was born in York, England. He was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Screenplay in 1960 for The Day They Robbed the Bank of England.

In 1946, he married Renata Faccincani della Torre, a wartime resistance fighter. She was an active (uncredited) editor in his literary and screenwriting projects.

Filmography

  • Green Grow the Rushes (1951), based on his 1949 novel Green Grow the Rushes
  • The Long Memory (1952), based on his 1951 novel of the same name
  • The Steel Bayonet (1957)
  • The One That Got Away (1957)
  • The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960)
  • Up from the Beach (1965)
  • That Man in Istanbul (1965)
  • The Three Musketeers (1974)

    • Novels

  • Sailor Comes Home (1938)
  • Dead Ground (1946)
  • The Unforgiven (1947)
  • The Mask Of Wisdom (1949)
  • Green Grow The Rushes (1949)
  • The Long Memory (1951)
  • An Epitaph For Love (1953)
  • The Way The Wind Blows (1954)
  • Man On A Horse (1964)
  • The Libertines (1966)
  • I, The King (1979)

    • References

    Howard Clewes Wikipedia
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