Biography
Welsh playwright and screenwriter.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away
1986
as Self
This 1986 documentary features interviews with director Alexander Mackendrick, actor Burt Lancaster, producer James Hill, and others.

The Ealing Comedies
1970
as Self
The story of the men and women who produced a series of film comedies that were so original and funny that they put Ealing on the map.

Hand in Hand
1961
Screenplay
Seven-year-olds Michael and Rachel are best friends who do everything together and who have vowed to remain friends "forever and ever and can't be par...

Let's Be Happy
1957
Screenplay
On receiving an inheritance from her grandfather, Canadian Jeannie MacLean decides to visit the family's Scottish roots. On the plane she meets busine...

Dance Hall
1950
Screenplay
Episodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall in Chiswick, London. Unusual at the time, the film tells its st...

Poet's Pub
1949
Screenplay
A loosely structured comedy allowing for a series of vignettes based around an ancient coaching inn. The story was adapted from the 1929 novel by Scot...

Pink String and Sealing Wax
1945
Writer
Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her drunkar...

Fiddlers Three
1944
Screenplay
Two British soldiers and a WREN take refuge at Stonehenge during a thunderstorm, they are struck by lightning and transported back to ancient Rome.

The Halfway House
1944
Screenplay
A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness i...

Went the Day Well?
1942
Screenplay, Story
The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their task is to disrupt England's radar network in prepara...

Go to Blazes
1942
Writer
Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs.

Ships with Wings
1941
Screenplay
Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Gre...