John Dighton

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John Gervase Dighton[1] (8 December 1909[1] – 16 April 1989) was a British playwright and screenwriter.

Dighton was born in London to Basil Lewis Dighton, of

Caius College, Cambridge.[2]

His output during the 1940s included the last starring features of comedian

Michael Wilding
.

In 1947, Dighton wrote his first play for the theatre,

Academy Award nomination for the latter. He gained a second nomination for the American-financed Roman Holiday
(1953).

Two of his stage plays, The Happiest Days of Your Life and Who Goes There! (known as The Passionate Sentry in the USA), were successfully adapted for the screen by Dighton himself, the former in collaboration with Frank Launder. He also wrote the 1955 comedy play Man Alive! that transferred to the West End the following year with Robertson Hare in the lead. He adapted the play Summer of the Seventeenth Doll.[5]

His final screen credit was his adaptation of Shaw's The Devil's Disciple, written in collaboration with Roland Kibbee.

Dighton married Kathleen Marie Philipps in 1934.[2]

Partial filmography as screenwriter

Selected plays

References

  1. ^ a b Collections: "John Dighton" British Film Institute. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  2. ^ a b c Who's Who in the Theatre, ed. Ian Herbert, Pitman, 1977, p. 552
  3. ^ Collections: "Basil Dighton" The British Museum. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  4. ^ Gaye, pp. 542 and 1532
  5. ^ Vagg, Stephen (29 September 2019). "Ten Stories About Australian Screenwriters You Might Not Know". Filmink.

Sources

  • Gaye, Freda, ed. (1967). Who's Who in the Theatre (fourteenth ed.). London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons.
    OCLC 5997224
    .
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