George William Campbell Dixon (10 December 1895,
Ouse, Tasmania
Ouse (pronounced - ooze) is a locality and small town in the Central Highlands Council local government area in Tasmania, Australia on the Lyell Highway. At the 2016 census, Ouse had a population of 303.
History
Ouse is the settlement where con ...
– 25 May 1960, London) was an Australian and British journalist, publicist and playwright. He was an employee of the Hobart newspaper
''The Mercury'', Melbourne's
''The Argus'' and
''The Herald'', and London's ''
Daily Mail
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''; from 1931 until his death, he headed the film criticism division of ''
The Daily Telegraph
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It was fo ...
''. In 1950, he served as president of
the Critics' Circle
The Critics' Circle is the national Professional association, professional body of United Kingdom, British critics for dance, drama, film, music, books and visual arts. It was established in 1913 as a successor to the Society of Dramatic Critics ...
.
Dixon's plays formed the basis for the scripts of the films ''
Isle of Escape
''Isle of Escape'' is a 1930 American pre-Code film produced and released by Warner Bros. The film stars Monte Blue and Myrna Loy and is set in the South Seas. Blue had been playing man-stranded-on-island roles in such films as ''White Shadows ...
'' (1930), directed by
Howard Bretherton
Howard Bretherton (13 February 1890, in Tacoma, Washington – 12 April 1969, in San Diego, California) was an American film director, film editor, and the father of film editor David Bretherton.
Career
He began his career as a propman and then ...
; ''
Secret Agent
Espionage, spying, or intelligence gathering is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information (intelligence) from non-disclosed sources or divulging of the same without the permission of the holder of the information for a tangib ...
'' (1936), directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English filmmaker. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema. In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 featur ...
; and, according to one version,
the film ''
Freedom Radio
''Freedom Radio'' (a.k.a. ''A Voice in the Night'') is a 1941 British propaganda film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard, Raymond Huntley and Derek Farr. It is set in Nazi Germany during the Second World War a ...
'' (1941) by
Anthony Asquith
Anthony William Landon Asquith (; 9 November 1902 – 20 February 1968) was an English film director. He collaborated successfully with playwright Terence Rattigan on ''The Winslow Boy'' (1948) and '' The Browning Version'' (1951), among oth ...
.
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The Daily Telegraph people
1895 births
1960 deaths
People from Tasmania
Australian film critics
British film critics
English male dramatists and playwrights
20th-century British dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Australian journalists
20th-century British journalists
English male journalists
Daily Mail journalists
Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom
Presidents of the Critics' Circle
The Herald (Melbourne) people
The Argus (Melbourne) people
The Mercury (Hobart) people
20th-century English businesspeople
Australian emigrants to the United Kingdom
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