Edwin Greenwood

British film director and screenwriter

Edwin Greenwood (1895–1939) was a British screenwriter, novelist and film director.[1]

Selected filmography

Director

  • The Fair Maid of Perth (1923)
  • Heartstrings (1923)
  • The Bells (1923) 20-minute silent film made as part of the "Gems of Literature" film series[2]
  • A Woman in Pawn (1927)
  • Tesha (1928)
  • To What Red Hell (1929)
  • The Co-Optimists (1929)

Screenwriter

  • The Physician (1928)
  • The Love Race (1931)
  • The Girl in the Night (1931)
  • The Maid of the Mountains (1932)
  • Lord Camber's Ladies (1932, produced by Alfred Hitchcock)
  • Money Talks (1933)
  • East Meets West (1936)
  • His Lordship (1936)
  • Young and Innocent (1937)

Actor

  • Chappy - That's All (1924) – Slim Jim
  • Jamaica Inn (1939) – Dandy – Sir Humphrey's Gang (final film role)

Bibliography

Novels

  • Skin and Bone (1934) – Published in the US as The Deadly Dowager
  • Miracle in the Drawing Room: A Daring and Cynical Novel of the Modern World’s Reaction to an Old-fashioned Miracle (1935)
  • Pins and Needles: A Melodrama (1935) – Published in the US as The Fair Devil
  • French Farce: A Tale of Gallic Lunacy, Murder and Death (1937)
  • Old Goat: A Fantasia on the Theme of Blackmail and Sudden Death (1937)
  • Dark Understudy: A Modern Crime Story (1940)

References

  1. ^ "BFI | Film & TV Database | GREENWOOD, Edwin". Archived from the original on 3 September 2009. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
  2. ^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 258.ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.

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