Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Arthur Harold Wimperis (3 December 1874 – 14 October 1953) was an English playwright, lyricist and screenwriter, who contributed lyrics and libretti to popular Edwardian musical comedies written for the stage. But with the advent of talking films, he switched to screenwriting, finding even greater success in this medium. Early in his career, Wimperis was an illustrator. For 25 years beginning in 1906, he became a lyricist and librettist for musical comedie...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Mrs. Miniver
1960
Original Film Writer
A British housewife faces up to the harsh realities of the Second World War.

Storm Over the Nile
1955
Additional Dialogue
In 1885, while his regiment is sent to the Sudan to battle the rebellious Dervish tribes, British Lieutenant Harry Faversham resigns his officer's com...

Young Bess
1953
Screenplay
The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Je...

Calling Bulldog Drummond
1951
Screenplay
Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.

That Forsyte Woman
1949
Dialogue
Soames and Irene Forsyte have a marriage of convenience. Young Jolyon Forsyte is a black sheep who ran away with the maid after his wife's death. Teen...

The Red Danube
1949
Screenplay
A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.

If Winter Comes
1947
Screenplay
The small English town of Penny Green is swarming with scandal when textbook author Mark, unhappily married to the shrewish Mabel, cultivates a friend...

Random Harvest
1942
Screenplay
Wandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star but his amnesia makes it difficult to last.

Mrs. Miniver
1942
as Sir Henry (uncredited)
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charm...

Mrs. Miniver
1942
Screenplay
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charm...

Old Bill and Son
1941
Additional Dialogue
Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to enl...

Q Planes
1939
Story
In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraf...

Prison Without Bars
1938
Writer
Suzanne, Renee, Nina and Marta all hate being in prison, being slapped and treated badly, and so all the girls are trying to escape. Madame Appel just...

The Divorce of Lady X
1938
Scenario Writer
The morning after a London barrister lets a mystery woman stay in his suite, a friend files for divorce.

The Green Cockatoo
1937
Writer
A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks invol...

Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1937
Screenplay
Sir Percy is forced to return to France one last time, to rescue his wife from the clutches of the sinister Robespierre. It's clearly a trap, but noth...

The Girl in the Taxi
1937
Lyricist
In this British musical, set in Paris, an apparently upstanding husband and father spends his nights fooling around with wild women. His son, wanting ...

Knight Without Armour
1937
Dialogue
British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution begins. After being released from prison in Siberia he pos...

Dark Journey
1937
Dialogue, Scenario Writer
Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl Von Marwitz during World War I. This tale of espi...

Forget Me Not
1936
Writer
A young British woman, tricked into believing she was used during a whirlwind romance, marries a gentle widowed Italian opera star, whose songs she an...

The Beloved Vagabond
1936
Dialogue, Scenario Writer
Flying from one charming lady---eluding another---and almost losing both!

Do Not Forget About Me
1935
Scenario Writer
This rare 1935 film (the title translated means "do not forget me") features Beniamino Gigli as, of course, an Italian singer who warbles his way thro...
Brewster's Millions
1935
Writer
Jack Brewster is a pennyless English lad who learns that he has inherited 6 million pounds sterling from a recently deceased relative. But soon learns...

The Scarlet Pimpernel
1934
Writer
18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an un...

Princess Charming
1934
Adaptation
Revolution breaks out in a small European kingdom, and a young princess is forced to flee for her life. She heads for the neighboring country, which j...

The Rise of Catherine the Great
1934
Story, Continuity
The woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she weds Grand Duke Peter, the nephew of Empress Elizabeth. A...

The Private Life of Don Juan
1934
Lyricist
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five y...

Cash
1933
Writer
A formerly wealthy man and his daughter try to regain wealth by selling a scheme to some investors, when they come upon a huge amount of unclaimed cas...

The Girl from Maxim's
1933
Lyricist
A Doctor tries to pass off a singer as his wife in Paris in 1904.

The Private Life of Henry VIII
1933
Story, Scenario Writer
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of tre...
Counsel's Opinion
1933
Writer
Divorce barrister Logan arrives back in London from a trip overseas to find the whole city fogbound. Unable to reach his flat, he books into the exclu...

Wedding Rehearsal
1932
Dialogue
The grandmother of a British nobleman, reluctant to marry, plays matchmaker. He outmaneuvers her by getting all of the matches married off .

Men of Tomorrow
1932
Writer
In the years after his graduation Allen Shepherd has become a successful novelist and has married Jane Anderson. A firm proponent of traditional sex r...

That Night in London
1932
Writer
A young bank clerk steals £500 and plans to go on a spree before shooting himself but a bad girl turned good tries to convince him to return the money...

The Man They Couldn't Arrest
1931
Writer
An amateur detective goes on the trail of a gang of violent criminals.

A Warm Corner
1930
Theatre Play
This early Gainsborough film is truly a lost treasure and easily one of the most daring and risque films ever made. At least half a dozen different ta...

Harmony Heaven
1930
Writer
The tale of a young songwriter, the actress who helps him find success, and the vamp who sets her sights on him.

Song of Soho
1930
Writer
An ex-French Foreign Legion soldier comes to Soho and ends up as a singer in a cafe.

Tesha
1928
Other
The luminous Maria Corda stars as the eponymous Tesha, a celebrated Russian dancer who marries an Englishman (Thomas). The couple long for a child but...

Wife Savers
1928
Theatre Play
While stationed in Switzerland, soldiers Louis and Rodney fall in love with local damsel Colette, much to the dismay of Colette's self-appointed boyfr...