Biography
Born just before the century turned, Charles Bennett made his writing debut as a child in 1911, fought in France during World War I while still a teen and resumed his acting career after the war's end. In 1926 he dropped acting to concentrate on being a playwright, later turning one of his most famous plays, "Blackmail," into a screenplay for production under the direction of Alfred Hitchcock. The affiliation with "Hitch" continued into the early 1940s, by which time both Bennett and the directo...
Known For
Complete Filmography

A State of Emergency
1986
as Charlie
This story is about a crusading scientist out to stop nuclear testing who is motivated by scientific fact, conscience and faith. Dr. Alex Carmody (Mar...

War-Gods of the Deep
1965
Screenplay
A chance discovery leads American mining engineer Ben Harris and acquaintance Harold to discover a lost city under the sea while searching for their k...

Five Weeks in a Balloon
1962
Screenplay
Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He plans to claim uncharted territories in West Africa ...

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1961
Screenplay
The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.

The Lost World
1960
Screenplay
Professor Challenger leads an expedition of scientists and adventurers to a remote plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle to verify his claim that dinos...

The Big Circus
1959
Screenplay
A circus owner tries to keep his financially troubled circus on the road, despite the efforts of a murderous saboteur who has decided that the show mu...

Night of the Demon
1957
Screenplay
American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was ki...

The Story of Mankind
1957
Writer
The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.

The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956
Story
A couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. When the child is kidnapped to ensure their sile...

Casino Royale
1954
Teleplay
American spy James Bond must outsmart card wiz and crime boss LeChiffre while monitoring his actions.

Dangerous Mission
1954
Writer
A policeman tries to protect a young woman against a hit man, when she flees New York after witnessing a mob killing.

No Escape
1953
Director, Writer
When the available evidence in a murder case points to a young woman as the main suspect, her boyfriend, a police detective, arranges for a struggling...

The Green Glove
1952
Screenplay, Story
In World War II France, American soldier Michael Blake captures, then loses Nazi-collaborator art thief Paul Rona, who leaves behind a gem studded gau...

Kind Lady
1951
Screenplay
Mary Herries has a passion for art and fine furniture. Even though she is getting on in years, she enjoys being around these priceless articles. One d...

Where Danger Lives
1950
Screenplay
A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman and apparently becomes involved in the death of her husband. They head for Mexico trying to ...

Madness of the Heart
1949
Director, Screenplay
A blind Englishwoman weds a French nobleman and moves into his family's chateau, but she quickly realizes someone there wants her out of the way.

Black Magic
1949
Screenplay
A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.

The Sign of the Ram
1948
Screenplay
A wheelchair-bound woman manipulates her family to a point where they suspect she may be unhinged.

Unconquered
1947
Screenplay
England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slav...

Ivy
1947
Screenplay
When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, or her lover, Dr. Roger...

The Story of Dr. Wassell
1944
Screenplay
As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser Marb...

Forever and a Day
1943
Writer
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, ...

Reap the Wild Wind
1942
Screenplay
The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Lo...

Joan of Paris
1942
Screenplay
An RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers get to Paris in spite of the fact that the youngest, Baby, is injured. He must be hid...

They Dare Not Love
1941
Writer
An Austrian prince flees his homeland when the Nazis take over and settles in London. He meets a beautiful Austrian émigré who makes him realize his m...

Foreign Correspondent
1940
Screenplay
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an a...

Balalaika
1939
Screenplay
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.

The Young in Heart
1938
Adaptation
A family of confidence tricksters sets their sights on a very rich, very lonely old lady named Miss Fortune.

Young and Innocent
1937
Screenplay
Robert Tisdall finds on the beach the corpse of a woman he knew. Others wrongly conclude that he is the murderer. Fleeing, he desperately attempts to ...

King Solomon's Mines
1937
Writer
White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.

Sabotage
1937
Screenplay
Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her h...

Secret Agent
1936
Screenplay
After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to th...

All at Sea
1936
Writer
When mild mannered Joe comes into an inheritance, he leaves his job as a clerk, and embarks on a sea cruise. Posing as a successful writer, Joe attrac...

The Clairvoyant
1935
Adaptation, Screenplay
A fake psychic suddenly turns into the real thing when he meets a young beauty. (TCM)

The 39 Steps
1935
as Second Passerby Near the Bus (uncredited)
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it a...

The 39 Steps
1935
Adaptation
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it a...
Night Mail
1935
Writer

The Man Who Knew Too Much
1934
Writer
While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidn...

The Secret of the Loch
1934
Writer
A batty Scottish professor attempts to prove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, but everyone thinks he's crazy. Meanwhile, a foolish young report...

Mannequin
1933
Screenplay
'Boxer leaves true love for society lady, but returns.' (British Film Catalogue)

The House of Trent
1933
Writer
It follows a doctor who faces both a scandal and a moral dilemma when a patient of his dies while he is making love to a press magnate's daughter.

Hawleys of High Street
1933
Writer
A butcher and a draper stand for election to the local council.
Partners Please
1932
Writer
An aristocrat becomes a gigolo.
Two Way Street
1931
Script, Story
'Bird fancier's daughter loves nobleman whom her cockney fiancé robs of necklace.' (British Film Catalogue)

Deadlock
1931
Story
A murder takes place in a film studio during the shooting of a new film.

The Last Hour
1930
Theatre Play
A crooked prince uses a death ray to force down airships and steal their cargo.
Painted Pictures
1930
Director, Writer
An artist reforms weak friends by painting their portraits.

Blackmail
1929
Theatre Play
London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling ...

The Rainbow Girl
1917
as Amos Divine
Mary Beth rents an attic room to Richard, a composer. Frustrated with the publishers demands for cheap, trashy songs, Richard, penniless, tries to asp...

Hobbled Hearts
1917
Hobbled Hearts comedy short
John Halifax, Gentleman
1915
as John as a Child
An apprentice inherits a master's mill, weds a disowned heiress, and remains true to his class.