Leslie Arliss

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Leslie Arliss (6 October 1901, London – 30 December 1987, Jersey, Channel Islands) was an English screenwriter and director. He is best known for his work on the Gainsborough melodramas directing films such as The Man in Grey and The Wicked Lady. during the 1940s. He was not the son of George and Florence Arliss as has sometimes been reported erroneously. HIs parents were, in fact, Charles Sawforde Arliss and Annie Eleanor Lilian Barnett Hill (known as Nina in later years).

Career

Arliss started his professional career as a journalist. Later he branched out into being a critic. During the 1920s he entered the film industry as a screenwriter, and author of short stories. In 1941 he became a director, initially for Associated British, but soon changing to the Gainsborough Pictures. Later he worked for the Alexander Korda-British Lion Film Corporation. He directed several series of television programmes.

Films for which he was a screenwriter

  • Farmers Wife - 1928
  • Road House (1934)
  • Orders is Orders - 1934
  • Heat Wave - 1935
  • Jack Ahoy - 1935
  • Windbag the Sailor - 1936
  • Rhodes - 1936
  • All In (1936)
  • Everybody Dance (1936)
  • Good Morning, Boys - 1937
  • Sez O'Reilly to MacNab - 1937
  • Too Dangerous to Live - 1937
  • Come on George! (1939)
  • The Second Mr Bush - 1940
  • Pastor Hall - 1940
  • The Foreman Went to France - 1942
  • The Saint Meets the Tiger - 1943
  • The Woman's Angle - 1952
  • Wicked Lady - 1983

Films for which he was both director and screenwriter

Television work

  • The New Adventures of Charly Chan - 1952
  • Sailor of Fortune - 1955-6
  • Buccaneers - 1956-57
  • The Invisible Man - 1959

References

  • "Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies" - 14th edition - published by Harper Collins - ISBN 0-06-093507-3

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