Howard Clewes (27 October 1912 – 29 January 1988) was an English

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and

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. He wrote for eight films between 1951 and 1974. He also wrote twenty action novels from 1938 to 1979.Renata Clewes obituary; London Independent 10 August 2009. He was nominated for a BAFTA for

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in 1960 for ''

The Day They Robbed the Bank of England ''The Day They Robbed the Bank of England'' is a 1960 British crime film directed by John Guillermin. It was written by Howard Clewes and Richard Maibaum and based upon the 1959 novel of the same title by John Brophy. Peter O'Toole's role in ...

''. He was born in

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, England. In 1946, he married Renata Faccincani della Torre, a wartime resistance fighter. She was an active (uncredited) editor in his literary and screenwriting projects.

Filmography

* '' Green Grow the Rushes'' (1951), based on his 1949 novel of the same name * ''

The Long Memory ''The Long Memory'' is a black-and-white 1953 British crime film directed by Robert Hamer and based on the 1951 novel of the same title by Howard Clewes. Filmed at locations such as London Waterloo railway station, the North Kent Marshes on t ...

'' (1953), based on his 1951 novel of the same name * '' The Steel Bayonet'' (1957) * '' The One That Got Away'' (1957) * ''

'' (1960) * ''

Up from the Beach ''Up from the Beach'' is a 1965 French-American international co-production war film directed by Robert Parrish and starring Cliff Robertson, Red Buttons and James Robertson Justice. It was based on a 1959 novel by George Barr called ''Epitaph f ...

'' (1965) * ''

That Man in Istanbul ''That Man in Istanbul'' ( es, Estambul 65, it, Colpo grosso a Galata Bridge, french: L'Homme d'Istamboul) is a 1965 English-language European international co-production adventure film directed by Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi and starring Horst Buc ...

'' (1965) * ''

The Three Musketeers ''The Three Musketeers'' (french: Les Trois Mousquetaires, links=no, ) is a French historical adventure novel written in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. It is in the swashbuckler genre, which has heroic, chivalrous swordsmen who fight f ...

'' (1974)

Novels

* ''Sailor Comes Home'' (1938) * ''Dead Ground'' (1946) * ''The Unforgiven'' (1947) * '' Thus am I Slayn'' (1948) * ''The Mask Of Wisdom'' (1949) * '' Green Grow the Rushes'' (1949) * ''

'' (1951) * ''An Epitaph For Love'' (1953) * ''The Way The Wind Blows'' (1954) * ''Man On A Horse'' (1964) * ''The Libertines'' (1966) * ''I, The King'' (1979)

References

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* 1912 births 1988 deaths English male screenwriters People from York 20th-century English screenwriters 20th-century English male writers {{Screen-writer-stub