Charles Bennett (Author)

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Charles Bennett (born August 2, 1899 in Shoreham-by-Sea , Sussex , England ; † June 15, 1995 in Los Angeles ) was a British playwright and screenwriter who is best known for his collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock .

Life

After serving in the First World War , Bennett worked as an actor and writer before starting to write plays in the 1920s. His play Blackmail was filmed in 1929 by Alfred Hitchcock under the same name . His collaboration with Hitchcock peaked in the mid-1930s when Bennett wrote the scripts for five highly successful Hitchcock thrillers: The Man Who Knew Too Much , The 39 Steps , Secret Agent , Sabotage, and Young and Innocent .

Bennett left England in 1940 to work in America with Hitchcock on his second American film The Foreign Correspondent. For this he was nominated for an Oscar in 1941 . He stayed in Hollywood, where he wrote many screenplays and also directed two feature films: The Rival (1949) and The Hunted Innocent (1953). He later worked for US television and wrote scripts for television series. In 1954 he worked on Casino Royale , the first James Bond film.

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SURNAME Bennett, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kneubuhl, John H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English playwright and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Shoreham-by-Sea , Sussex, England
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1995
Place of death los Angeles