Paul Capon

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Harry Paul Capon (born December 18, 1912 in Kenton Hall , Suffolk ; died November 24, 1969 in Hampstead , London ) was a British writer.

Life

Kenton was the son of farmer Harry Urban Capon and Bessie Martha, née Gooderham, and attended St. George's School in Harpenden , Hertfordshire . He worked in various areas of the film industry, including as a film editor and screenwriter . In the 1930s he made the editing of three films by Maurice Elvey , including The Clairvoyant (1934) with Claude Rains in the lead role. From 1941 to 1944 he was technical director of the Soviet film agency, from 1955 to 1957 editor at Disney in England and from 1963 to 1967 director of the film department at Independent Television News .

In addition to his work in film, Capon was the author of over 30 novels, including a large number of crime novels , nine science fiction novels , and some books for young people. His SF works include the Antigeos trilogy, in which terrestrial astronauts discover a counter- earth on which a utopian society has developed.

Capon was married to Doreen Evans-Evans, with whom he had two children. The marriage ended in divorce in 1951. In 1956 he married Amy Charlotte Gillam in his second marriage.

bibliography

Antigeos (series of novels)
  • 1 The Other Side of the Sun (1950)
  • 2 The Other Half of the Planet (1952)
  • 3 Down to Earth (1954)
Sarm (series of novels)
  • 1 Warrior's Moon (1960)
  • 2 The Kingdom of the Bulls (1961)
Novels
  • Battered Caravanserai (1942)
  • Brother Cain (1945)
  • Hosts of Midian (1946)
  • Dead Man's Chest (1947)
  • The Murder of Jacob Canansay (1947)
  • Fanfare for Shadows (1947)
  • O Clouds Unfold (1948)
  • Image of a Murder (1949)
  • Toby Scuffel (1949)
  • Threescore Years (1950)
  • Delay of Doom (1950)
  • No Time for Death (1951)
  • Death at Shinglestrand (1951, also as Murder at Shinglestrand )
  • Death on a Wet Sunday (1952)
  • In All Simplicity (1953)
  • The World at Bay (1953)
    • German: Black Star Nero. Translated by MF Arnemann. Pabel (Utopia large volume # 122), 1960.
  • The Seventh Passenger (1953)
  • Malice Domestic (1954)
  • Phobos, the Robot Planet (1955, also as Lost: A Moon )
  • Thirty Days Hath September (1955)
  • The Wanderbolt (1955)
  • Margin of Terror (1955)
  • Into the Tenth Millennium (1956)
  • The Cave of Cornelius (1959, also called The End of the Tunnel )
  • Flight of Time (1960)
  • Amongst Those Missing (1959)
  • Lord of the Chariots (1962)
  • The Golden Cloak (1962)
  • Strangers on Forlorn (1969)
  • Roman Gold (1968)
  • The Final Refuge (1969)
Non-fiction
  • The Great Yarmouth Mystery (1965)

Filmography

  • Road House (editing, 1934)
  • The Clairvoyant (editing, 1934)
  • Play Up the Band (editor, 1935)
  • Heat Wave (editing, 1935)
  • Radio Lover (Directed with Austin Melford, 1936)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The information on the date of birth is not clear. Further dates of birth are December 18, 1911 and December 12, 1912.
personal data
SURNAME Capon, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Capon, Harry Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Kenton Hall , Suffolk
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1969
Place of death Hampstead , London