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Thomas Ernest Bennett " Tibby " Clarke, OBE (7 June 1907 – 11 February 1989) was a film screenwriter who wrote several of the Ealing Studios comedies. Early life. Clarke was born in Watford on 7 June 1907. His father, Ernest Clarke, had been raised in Hull, moving to South Africa in the late 19th century.
Jun 3, 2024 · T.E.B. Clarke (born June 7, 1907, Watford, Hertfordshire, Eng.—died Feb. 11, 1989, London) was a British screenwriter who wrote the scripts for some of the most popular British comedies of the post-World War II period.
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T.E.B. Clarke. Writer: The Lavender Hill Mob. T.E.B. 'Tibby' Clarke graduated with a law degree from Cambridge University, but decided that writing was more his forte. He started on that career path first as writer for a magazine in Australia, than back in London freelancing as a journalist.
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- Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK
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Feb 15, 1989 · The British screenwriter T. E. B. Clarke, whose screenplays included the Academy Award-winning script for ''The Lavender Hill Mob,'' died of cancer here on Saturday. He was 81 years old.
T.E.B. Clarke. Writer: The Lavender Hill Mob. T.E.B. 'Tibby' Clarke graduated with a law degree from Cambridge University, but decided that writing was more his forte. He started on that career path first as writer for a magazine in Australia, than back in London freelancing as a journalist.
- June 7, 1907
- February 11, 1989
Clarke was Ealing's most prolific writer of comedies, and his output included some of the most enduring, from the film that kickstarted the cycle, Hue and Cry (d. Charles Crichton, 1946), to Passport to Pimlico (d. Henry Cornelius, 1949) and The Titfield Thunderbolt (d. Crichton, 1953).
The film was written by T. E. B. Clarke and was inspired by the restoration of the narrow gauge Talyllyn Railway in Wales, the world's first heritage railway run by volunteers. "Titfield" is an amalgamation of the names Titsey and Limpsfield, two villages in Surrey near Clarke's home at Oxted. Michael Truman was the producer.
