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Eliot Stannard (1 March 1888 – 21 November 1944) was an English screenwriter and director. He was the son of civil engineer Arthur Stannard and Yorkshire-born novelist Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Palmer.
Eliot Stannard was born on 1 March 1888 in Putney, London, England, UK. He was a writer and director, known for The Laughing Cavalier (1917), The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) and Profit and the Loss (1917).
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Despite being a highly important figure in the early years of British cinema — he wrote the scenarios for at least 150 silent films, including 8 of the early Hitchcock films — comparatively little is known of Stannard's life. Together with his twin sister, Violet Mignon Stannard, he was born in March 1888. His father, Arthur, worked as a civil engi...
With Hitchcock... 1. The Pleasure Garden(1925) - writer 2. The Mountain Eagle(1926) - writer 3. Downhill(1927) - writer: adaptation 4. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog(1927) - writer: scenario 5. The Ring(1927) - writer: script collaborator (uncredited) 6. Champagne(1928) - writer 7. Easy Virtue(1928) - writer: scenario 8. The Farmer's Wife(19...
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born 01/Mar/1888 in Putney, Wandsworth, Londonbaptised 10/Mar/1888 at St Mary, Putneyson of civil engineer and company director Arthur Stannard (b. ~1854) and novelist Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard (b. 1856) née Palmer, who married 1884 in York, Yorkshirebrother of Audrey Noel Palmer Stannard (b. 1884), Dorothy Katharine Palmer Stannard (b. 1885), Violet Mignon Stannard (b. 1888)and Olive Nancy (Margaret Louise Henrietta Josephine) Stannard (b. 1895)Jump up According to an advertisement for Filmophone Limited, which appeared in The Times(19/Dec/1928), Stannard wrote over 400 scenarios.Jump up Wikipedia: John Strange Winter.Jump up The novel can be read online as part of the Women's Genre Fiction Project.Jump up Named as the "Toilet Preparation Company" on the 1911 Census, but likely simply meant a company which manufactured toilets.Mar 8, 2015 · As none of his sisters married and Eliot had no children of his own, Olive Nancy Stannard was the last of the Stannard line — she died on 9 October 1975, aged 80. If Eliot Cardella Stannard wrote any memoirs, they remain unpublished and there whereabouts unknown.
Eliot Stannard was born on 1 March 1888 in Putney, London, England, UK. He was a writer and director, known for The Laughing Cavalier (1917), The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) and Profit and the Loss (1917).
- March 1, 1888
- November 21, 1944
If Eliot Stannard is remembered at all it will be for the eight screenplays written for Alfred Hitchcock, at Gainsborough and then at British International Pictures (BIP), from his directorial debut The Pleasure Garden (1926) to his penultimate silent picture The Manxman (1929) and including such highly-regarded pictures as The Lodger (1926), ...
Eliot Stannard was Alfred Hitchock’s first major screenwriter, and was prob-ably the most prolific, perhaps most successful British screenwriter in the silent era.
