Laird Doyle (1907–1936) was an American
screenwriter.
[Brown p.76] Doyle was under contract to
Warner Brothers
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Warner Bros. or abbreviated as WB) is an American film and entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California, and a subsidiary of Warner Bros. D ...
during the mid-1930s, before his sudden death at the age of twenty-nine. One of his final films was the British comedy ''
Strangers on Honeymoon
''Strangers on Honeymoon'' is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Constance Cummings, Hugh Sinclair and Noah Beery, based on the 1926 novel '' The Northing Tramp'' by Edgar Wallace. Much of the film takes place ...
''. Some of his screenplay work was used posthumously, his last credited film being in 1947.
Filmography
* ''
Hell Below
''Hell Below'' (aka ''Pigboats'') is a 1933 American MGM pre-Code film set in the Adriatic Sea during World War I about submarine warfare based on Commander Edward Ellsberg's novel ''Pigboats''. The film stars Robert Montgomery, Walter Huston ...
'' (1933)
* ''
Jimmy the Gent'' (1934)
* ''
The Key'' (1934)
* ''
British Agent
''British Agent'' is a 1934 American romantic espionage film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Leslie Howard and Kay Francis. It is based on ''Memoirs of a British Agent'', the 1932 autobiography of R. H. Bruce Lockhart, who worked for ...
'' (1934)
* ''
Bordertown'' (1935)
* ''
Front Page Woman
''Front Page Woman'' is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Michael Curtiz. The screenplay by Laird Doyle, Lillie Hayward and Roy Chanslor based on the novel ''Women Are Bum Newspapermen'' by Richard Macauley.
Plot
Ellen Garfield refuses t ...
'' (1935)
* ''
Special Agent'' (1935)
* ''
Dangerous
Dangerous may refer to:
Film and television
* ''Dangerous'' (1935 film), an American film starring Bette Davis
* '' Dangerous: The Short Films'', a 1993 collection of music videos by Michael Jackson
* ''Dangerous'' (2021 film), a Canadian-Ameri ...
'' (1935)
* ''
Strangers on Honeymoon
''Strangers on Honeymoon'' is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Constance Cummings, Hugh Sinclair and Noah Beery, based on the 1926 novel '' The Northing Tramp'' by Edgar Wallace. Much of the film takes place ...
'' (1936)
* ''
Hearts Divided
''Hearts Divided'' is a 1936 American musical film about the real-life marriage between American Elizabeth 'Betsy' Patterson and Jérôme Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon. It stars Marion Davies and Dick Powell as the couple. The film was a remake ...
'' (1936)
* ''
Cain and Mabel'' (1936)
* ''
The Prince and the Pauper
''The Prince and the Pauper'' is a novel by American author Mark Twain. It was first published in 1881 in Canada, before its 1882 publication in the United States. The novel represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction. Set in 1547 ...
'' (1937)
* ''
San Quentin
San Quentin State Prison (SQ) is a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison for men, located north of San Francisco in the unincorporated place of San Quentin in Marin County.
Opened in July 1852, San Quentin is the ...
'' (1937)
* ''
Another Dawn'' (1937)
* ''
Singapore Woman
''Singapore Woman'' is a 1941 American drama film directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Brenda Marshall and David Bruce.
The Warner Bros. B picture is a remake of '' Dangerous'' (1935) using leftover sets from '' The Letter'' (1940). The s ...
'' (1941)
* ''
Northwest Outpost
''Northwest Outpost'' (also known as ''End of the Rainbow'') is a 1947 American Musical Western film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Nelson Eddy and Ilona Massey. The film was Eddy's last, and is an operetta film like his previous starring r ...
'' (1947)
References
Bibliography
* Brown, Geoff. ''Launder and Gilliat''. British Film Institute, 1977.
External links
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1907 births
1936 deaths
20th-century American screenwriters
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