Alec Coppel
Alec Coppel (born September 17, 1907 in Melbourne , † January 22, 1972 in London ) was an Australian screenwriter , writer and playwright .
Life
Coppel was born in Melbourne and attended Wesley College there . In the 1920s he went to England and studied medicine at the prestigious University of Cambridge . However, he left the university before graduation and devoted himself to work in advertising. In his spare time he started writing. He was able to celebrate his first success with his play I Killed The Count . This gave him some offers for scripts.
Before the start of the Second World War , he returned to Australia and founded the production company Whitehall Productions , which operated the Minerva Theater in Sydney in the Kings Cross district . He also wrote for radio and was involved in the script for Smithy , one of the few Australian feature films of the time.
Towards the end of the war, Coppel returned to England and worked alternately on novels, plays and scripts. In 1954 he was the first Australian to receive an Oscar nomination for his original story for the feature film The Key to Paradise . In the same year he went to Los Angeles and wrote several scripts, including a first version of Vertigo - From the Realm of the Dead and The Nervesaw . He spent the 1960s mainly in Europe .
Coppel died of liver cancer on January 22, 1972 in London .
Works
Filmography (selection)
script
- 1949: The madness of Dr. Clive (Obsession) - Director: Edward Dmytryk
- 1951: No Highway in the Sky (No Highway in the Sky) - Director: Henry Koster
- 1951: Mr. Denning Drives North - Director: Anthony Kimmins
- 1953: The Key to Paradise (The Captain's Paradise) - Director: Anthony Kimmins
- 1953: Hell Below Zero - Director: Mark Robson
- 1954: The Black Knight - Directed by Tay Garnett
- 1958: Vertigo - From the Realm of the Dead (Vertigo) - Director: Alfred Hitchcock
- 1961: Degenduell (Lo Spadaccino di Siena) - directed by Etienne Périer
Literary template
- 1949: The madness of Dr. Clive (Obsession) - Director: Edward Dmytryk
- 1959: The Gazebo - Director: George Marshall
- 1965: The Shot (Moment To Moment) - Director: Mervyn LeRoy
- 1967: House Friends Are People Too (The Bliss Of Mrs. Blossom) - Director: Joseph McGrath
- 1971: Camouflage - I am the murderer (Jo) - Director: Jean Girault
Stage plays
- 1937: I Killed The Count
- 1949: A Man About a Dog
- 1958: Oh, Captain!
- 1959: The Gazebo
- 1961: The Captain's Paradise
Novels
- I killed the count
- A Man About a Dog
- Mr. Denning Drives North
- The Last Parable
- Moment to moment
- Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Web links
- Alec Coppel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Alec Coppel in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b AusStage Contributor
- ↑ AusStage organization
- ↑ Awards. Internet Movie Database , accessed June 2, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Coppel, Alec |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian screenwriter, writer and dramaturge |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th September 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Melbourne , Australia |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1972 |
| Place of death | London , England |