WP Lipscomb
William Percy Lipscomb (* 1887 in Merton , Surrey , England ; † 25 July 1958 in London ) was a British screenwriter , the Oscar ceremony in 1939 the Oscar for best adapted screenplay won.
Life
Lipscomb began his career as a screenwriter in the film industry in 1928 with the film Balaclava and wrote the scripts and templates for around sixty films until his death .
At the Academy Awards in 1939 he won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for the film drama The Flower Girl's novel (1938), which Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard with Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller and Alfred Lawson together with George Bernard Shaw , Ian Dalrymple and Cecil Lewis based on Shaw's play Pygmalion (1913).
He was also nominated for Best Screenplay in 1957 with Richard Mason for the British Academy Film Award (BAFTA Film Award) for March through Hell (A Town Like Alice, 1956) by Jack Lee with Virginia McKenna , Peter Finch and Kenji Takaki in the lead roles .
Lipscomb, who directed the film Colonel Blood in 1934 , was also the producer of the films Impatience of the Heart (1946), The Mark of Cain (1947) and Make Me an Offer (1954).
Filmography (selection)
- 1928: balaclava
- 1931: The Speckled Band
- 1933: I Was a Spy (I Was a Spy)
- 1935: The Misery (Les Misérables)
- 1935: Battle for India (Clive of India)
- 1935: Escape from Paris (A Tale of Two Cities)
- 1938: The novel of a flower girl (Pygmalion)
- 1943: For ever and a day (Forever and a Day)
- 1946: Impatience of the Heart (Beware of Pity)
- 1952: His Excellency
- 1956: March through Hell (A Town Like Alice)
- 1959: Dedicated to the devil (L'ambitieuse)
Awards
Web links
- WP Lipscomb in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lipscomb, WP |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lipscomb, William Percy (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British screenwriter, film producer and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Merton , Surrey , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 25, 1958 |
| Place of death | London |