Rodney Ackland

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Rodney Ackland (1908 - 1991) was an English playwright and screenwriter. He wrote the popular British film Bank Holiday (1938) and made some uncredited contributions to 1941's Dangerous Moonlight and 1944's Love Story. In 1942 he shared an Academy Award nomination for the screenplay for Forty-Ninth Parallel (released in the United States as The Invaders).

He is credited with discovering British-American actress Sally Ann Howes, the child of neighbor Bobby Howes, when he insisted that she audition for his 1943 film Thursday's Child, which he wrote and directed.

[edit] Plays

  • The Old Ladies (1935)
  • The Pink Room (1952), rewritten as Absolute Hell (1991)
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