T. E. B. Clarke
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Born | Thomas Ernest Bennett Clarke 7 June 1907 Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK |
Died | 11 February 1989 , England, UK | (aged 81)
Other names | Tibby |
Occupation(s) | Writer, screenwriter |
Years active | 1944–1980 |
Spouse |
Joyce Caroline Steele
(m. 1932; died 1983) |
Relatives | Dudley Clarke (older brother) |
Awards | Academy Award for Best Story and Screenplay 1952 The Lavender Hill Mob |
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. He was enlisted to carry dispatches for the Jameson Raid though, avoiding imprisonment, managed to obtain a job working for a gold mining company. Ernest then married Madeline Gardiner, with whom he raised three children. Their eldest child was Dudley Clarke, who would later become a pioneer of military deception operations during the Second World War. A girl, Dollie, followed.
The gold mining company Ernest had been working for then offered him an opportunity to move to their
Always known as "Tibby", Clarke attended
Film career
Clarke's first screen credit was for heavily modifying the script of
Clarke was also a novelist and writer of non-fiction, but presented at least one fictional work as fact. His book
He was awarded the OBE in 1952. He was the subject of
Bibliography
Screenplays
- Johnny Frenchman (1945)
- Hue and Cry (1947)
- Against the Wind (1948)
- Passport to Pimlico (1949)
- The Blue Lamp (1950)
- The Magnet (1950)
- The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
- The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953)
- The Rainbow Jacket (1954)
- Barnacle Bill (US: All at Sea, 1957)
- Gideon's Day (US: Gideon of Scotland Yard, 1958)
- Sons and Lovers (1960)
- The Horse Without a Head
Non-fiction
- Go South - Go West
- What's Yours?
- Intimate Relations
- This is Where I Came In
Novels
- Jeremy's England
- Cartwright Was a Cad
- Two and Two Make Five
- Mr Spirket Reforms
- The World Was Mine
- The Wide Open Door
- The Trail of the Serpent
- The Wrong Turning
- The Man Who Seduced a Bank
- Murder at Buckingham Palace
- Intimate Relations (ISBN 9780718109271)
References
- ISBN 0718112237.
- ^ a b c Street, Sarah (rev.), "Clarke, Thomas Ernest Bennett (1907–1989)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, January 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2024. (subscription required)
- ISBN 0002111810
- ISBN 9780810867949.
- ^ "T.E.B. Clarke, Writer, Dies at 81". New York Times. 15 February 1989. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
External links
- T. E. B. Clarke at the BFI's Screenonline