Gordon Wellesley

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Gordon Wellesley (born December 8, 1906 in Sydney , New South Wales , Australia , † October 1980 in London ) was an Australian screenwriter .

Life

Wellesley grew up in Australia and began a career as a screenwriter and producer in the British film industry in the 1930s, initially for Associated Talking Pictures , and from 1936 with his own production company. He celebrated his greatest success with the screenplay for Night Train to Munich (1940), a thriller by director Carol Reed , with which Wellesley often worked. The script was nominated for an Oscar in 1941 . More scripts for Warner Bros. followed. After the Second World War , he wrote primarily for television, but also for Hammer Films . Wellesley also published two books, a novel called A Question of Adultery and the non-fiction book Sex and the Occult .

Although the Internet Movie Database gives his date of birth as December 8, 1906, other sources point to December 8, 1894. He also has an Asian background, which is often suppressed. His maiden name is Gordon Wellesley Wong, which he later changed to Gordon Wong Wellesley. Under this name he is listed in his early films, such as Shanghai Madness , and published articles in the US magazine Romance . Later he left out the "wong" entirely.

Wellesley lived on Hammersmith Road in London until his death . He was married to the screenwriter Katherine Hazel Strueby .

Filmography (selection)

Works

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Steve: Paperback Cover Cavalcade 6. Bearalley.Blogspot.de, November 18, 2009, accessed February 1, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b WELLESLEY, Gordon. FTVDB.bfi.org, accessed February 1, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Wellesley, Gordon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wellesley, Gordon Wong; Wong, Gordon Wellesley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Sydney , New South Wales, Australia
DATE OF DEATH October 1980
Place of death London