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W. P. Lipscomb | |
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Born | 1 October 1887 |
Died | 25 July 1958 Kensington, London, United Kingdom |
Occupation | Screenwriter |
Years active | 1928–1959 (film) |
William Percy Lipscomb (born 1887 in Merton, Surrey, England, died 25 July 1958) was a British-born Hollywood playwright, screenwriter, producer and director. He died in London in 1958, aged 71.
Career
Lipscomb edited a brewery magazine and wrote sketches for gramophone companies in his spare time.[1] His first screenwriting credit was Balaclava (1928). He wrote a short The Safe.
He worked regularly for Herbert Wilcox, adapting stage productions such as Splinters (1929). His adaptation of Rookery Nook (1930) by Ben Travers was so successful he adapted other works by Travers: A Night Like This (1931), Plunder (1931), The Chance of a Night Time (1931), and Mischief (1931).
He adapted On Approval (1930) and Canaries Sometimes Sing (1932) by Frederick Lonsdale.
He also wrote some Jack Raymond films including French Leave (1930),[2] The Great Game (1930), Tilly of Bloomsbury (1931), and The Speckled Band (1931). The latter was a Sherlock Holmes story as was The Sign of Four (1932).
He was at a story conference for a project Dying to Live with a writer who died.[3]
He wrote thrillers for the gramophone such as His Master's Voice.[4]
Lipscomb did vehicles for musical stars including Jack Hulbert (Jack's the Boy (1932)); Jessie Matthews (There Goes the Bride (1932) and The Man from Toronto (1932)).[5]
In 1931 he reportedly wrote an original for Jack Buchanan to be directed by Basil Dean, The Fun Men Have but it was not made.[6] He did a radio play The Verdict (1933).[7]
Lipscomb was one of several writers in The Good Companions (1933) starring Matthews, produced by Michael Balcon and directed by Victor Saville.
Lipscomb worked on Channel Crossing (1933); Loyalties (1933) from the play by John Galsworthy; I Was a Spy (1933); and The King of Paris (1934) for Raymond.
Lipscomb's success as writer enabled him to turn director as well as writer for Colonel Blood (1934).[8] It remains his only directorial credit.
As a writer he did The Camels are Coming (1934) with Hulbert; Soldiers of the King (1934); The King of Paris (1934);[9] and Me and Marlborough (1935) with Cicely Courtneidge for Saville.
Hollywood
Lipscomb wrote a play with R.J. Minney, Clive of India (1934). It was a hit and 20th Century Fox bought the film rights. Lipscomb did the adaptation in Hollywood and the 1935 film was a success.[10] (Lipscomb would later adapt the play for British TV in 1938.)
Lipscomb found himself in demand to adapt historical novels: Cardinal Richelieu (1935), Les Misérables (1935), A Tale of Two Cities (1935), A Message to Garcia (1936), Under Two Flags (1936), and The Garden of Allah (1936). Universal hired him to do a version of Phantom of the Opera that was never used.[11]
In England, Troubled Waters (1936) based on his story was produced.
He returned to England to write a play about Samuel Pepys, Ninety Sails (1937).[12] It was adapted for TV as Thank You, Mr. Pepys (1938).
He worked on the adaptation of Pygmalion (1938).[13]
In Hollywood Lipscomb was reportedly writing an Australian bushranging story Captain Midnight.[14] This became Captain Fury (1939) but Lipscomb is not credited.
He worked on the scripts for The Sun Never Sets (1939), a pro British empire film.[15] He also did Moon Over Burma (1940), Pacific Blackout (1941), and Forever and a Day (1943).
Producer
Lipscomb returned to England. He worked as producer and writer on Beware of Pity (1946) and The Mark of Cain (1947).[16]
He wrote a play The Man with the Cloak Full of Holes (1946) and The Lady Maria (1947).
Australia
Lipscomb co-wrote a play about an Australian Pommy before ever visiting that country.[17][18] Ealing sent Lipscomb to Australia to write Bitter Springs (1950) and a version of the bushranging novel Robbery Under Arms.[19]
Ealing sent him to Africa to write Where No Vultures Fly (1951), which became a big hit. He then adapted a comic novel His Excellency (1952).
Lipscomb produced and wrote Make Me an Offer (1955). He was one of several writers on Seven Wonders of the World (1956). He wrote some BBC plays.
Lipscomb then worked on some other projects with Australian connections: A Town Like Alice (1956), from a novel by Neville Shute; Robbery Under Arms (1957) from a novel by Thomas Alexander Browne; Dust in the Sun (1958) from the novel by Jon Cleary, produced and directed by Lee Robinson.
He helped write the Ealing war film Dunkirk (1958) and did an Australian-French film The Restless and the Damned (1959), co produced by Robinson.
Personal life
Lipscomb was married in 1937.[20] He died in London in 1958.[21]
Filmography
As screenwriter
- Balaclava (1928)
- Splinters (1929)
- French Leave (1930)
- Rookery Nook (1930)
- On Approval (1930)
- The Great Game (1930)
- Canaries Sometimes Sing (1930)
- A Night Like This (1931)
- Plunder (1931)
- Tilly of Bloomsbury (1931)
- The Speckled Band (1931)
- The Chance of a Night Time (1931)
- Mischief (1931)
- The Safe (1932)
- The Sign of Four (1932)
- Jack's the Boy (1932)
- There Goes the Bride (1932)
- Skipper of the Osprey (1933)
- The Man from Toronto (1933)
- Channel Crossing (1933)
- Loyalties (1933)
- I Was a Spy (1933)
- The King of Paris (1934)
- Colonel Blood (1934)
- The Camels Are Coming (1934)
- Soldiers of the King (1934)
- Me and Marlborough (1935)
- Clive of India (1935)
- Cardinal Richelieu (1935)
- Les Misérables (1935)
- A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
- A Message to Garcia (1936)
- Under Two Flags (1936)
- The Garden of Allah (1936)
- Clive of India (TV) (1938)
- The Sun Never Sets (1939)
- Moon Over Burma (1940)
- Pacific Blackout (1941)
- Forever and a Day (1943)
- Beware of Pity (1946)
- The Mark of Cain (1947)
- Bitter Springs (1950)
- Where No Vultures Fly (1951)
- His Excellency (1952)
- Make Me an Offer (1955)
- Seven Wonders of the World (1956)
- A Town Like Alice (1956)
- Robbery Under Arms (1957)
- Dust in the Sun (1958)
- Dunkirk (1958)
- Payment on Demand (L'Ambitieuse) (1959)
As producer
As director
As playwright
- Clive of India (1934)
- Thank You, Mr. Pepys! (1937)
- The Man with the Cloak Full of Holes
- Pommy (1954)
References
- ^ "They Pay a Man Just". The Courier-Mail. No. 1405. Brisbane. 3 March 1938. p. 4 (Second Section.). Retrieved 18 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "AUSTRALIAN TALKIES COMING SOON". Weekly Times. No. 3303. Victoria, Australia. 17 January 1931. p. 12. Retrieved 18 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Dying to Live". Recorder. No. 9, 885. South Australia. 1 January 1931. p. 3. Retrieved 18 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "THRILLER RECORDS". Queensland Times. Vol. LXXII, no. 14, 163. 10 August 1931. p. 3 (DAILY.). Retrieved 18 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "The World of Pictures". The Brisbane Courier. No. 23, 281. 10 September 1932. p. 19. Retrieved 18 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "SCREEN SHORTS". Western Mail. Vol. XLVI, no. 2, 385. Western Australia. 29 October 1931. p. 6. Retrieved 18 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "GENERAL NEWS". The Advertiser. Adelaide. 15 March 1933. p. 16. Retrieved 18 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "film fan fare". The Telegraph. Brisbane. 11 November 1933. p. 6 (LAST RACE). Retrieved 18 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "THE KING OF PARIS". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 30, 442. 29 July 1935. p. 5. Retrieved 18 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "AVOIDING LIBEL IN PICTURES". The Labor Daily. No. 3552. New South Wales, Australia. 25 April 1935. p. 10. Retrieved 18 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Universal Announcement". Sunday Times (Perth). No. 2013. Western Australia. 23 August 1936. p. 24 (Second Section). Retrieved 18 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "ITEMS OF INTEREST". Western Mail. Vol. 52, no. 2, 668. Western Australia. 8 April 1937. p. 30. Retrieved 18 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Gilbert and Sullivan for The Screen". The Queenslander. 23 February 1938. p. 12. Retrieved 18 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ ""Captain Midnight" Cast". The West Australian. Vol. 55, no. 16, 410. Western Australia. 3 February 1939. p. 3. Retrieved 18 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "SCREEN STORY OF BRITISH COLONIAL SERVICE". The Telegraph (SECOND ed.). Brisbane. 8 August 1939. p. 16. Retrieved 18 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Film News". The Sun. No. 11, 657. Sydney. 5 June 1947. p. 16 (LATE FINAL EXTRA). Retrieved 18 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Outback For London". The Sunday Herald (Sydney). No. 51. New South Wales, Australia. 15 January 1950. p. 6 (Features). Retrieved 18 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Australian Play Bought In U.K." Sunday Times (Perth). No. 2683. Western Australia. 24 July 1949. p. 3 (Sunday Times Comics). Retrieved 18 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Australian Film". Sunday Times (Perth). No. 2681. Western Australia. 10 July 1949. p. 1 (Sunday Times Comics). Retrieved 18 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "BEAU GESTE AS A TALKIE IN COLOUR". The West Australian. Vol. 53, no. 15, 898. 11 June 1937. p. 3. Retrieved 18 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "WILLIAM P. LIPSCOMB". New York Times. 26 July 1958. ProQuest 114430650.
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Balaclava (film)
Herbert Wilcox
Splinters (1929 film)
Rookery Nook (film)
Ben Travers
A Night Like This (film)
Plunder (1931 film)
The Chance of a Night Time
Mischief (1931 film)
On Approval (1930 film)
Canaries Sometimes Sing
Frederick Lonsdale
Jack Raymond
French Leave (1930 film)
The Great Game (1930 film)
Tilly of Bloomsbury (1931 film)
The Speckled Band (1931 film)
Sherlock Holmes
The Sign of Four (1932 film)
Jack Hulbert
Jack's the Boy
Jessie Matthews
There Goes the Bride (1932 film)
The Man from Toronto (1933 film)
Jack Buchanan
Basil Dean
The Good Companions (1933 film)
Michael Balcon
Victor Saville
Channel Crossing
Loyalties (1933 film)
John Galsworthy
I Was a Spy
The King of Paris (1934 film)
Colonel Blood (film)
The Camels are Coming (film)
Soldiers of the King (film)
The King of Paris (1934 film)
Me and Marlborough
Cicely Courtneidge
R.J. Minney
Clive of India (film)
20th Century Fox
Cardinal Richelieu (film)
Les Misérables (1935 film)
A Tale of Two Cities (1935 film)
A Message to Garcia (film)
Under Two Flags (1936 film)
The Garden of Allah (1936 film)
The Phantom of the Opera (novel)
Troubled Waters (1936 film)
Samuel Pepys
Pygmalion (1938 film)
Captain Fury
The Sun Never Sets (film)
Moon Over Burma
Pacific Blackout
Forever and a Day (1943 film)
Beware of Pity
The Mark of Cain (1947 film)
Pommy (play)
Bitter Springs (film)
Robbery Under Arms
Where No Vultures Fly
His Excellency (1952 film)
Make Me an Offer
Seven Wonders of the World (film)
A Town Like Alice (film)
Neville Shute
Robbery Under Arms (1957 film)
Thomas Alexander Browne
Dust in the Sun
Jon Cleary
Dunkirk (1958 film)
The Restless and the Damned
Balaclava (film)
Splinters (1929 film)
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French Leave (1930 film)
1930 in film
Rookery Nook (film)
On Approval (1930 film)
The Great Game (1930 film)
Canaries Sometimes Sing
A Night Like This (film)
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Plunder (1931 film)
Tilly of Bloomsbury (1931 film)
The Speckled Band (1931 film)
The Chance of a Night Time
Mischief (1931 film)
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The Sign of Four (1932 film)
Jack's the Boy
There Goes the Bride (1932 film)
1933 in film
The Man from Toronto (1933 film)
Channel Crossing
Loyalties (1933 film)
I Was a Spy
The King of Paris (1934 film)
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Colonel Blood (film)
The Camels are Coming (film)
Soldiers of the King (film)
Me and Marlborough
1935 in film
Clive of India (film)
Cardinal Richelieu (film)
Les Misérables (1935 film)
A Tale of Two Cities (1935 film)
A Message to Garcia (film)
1936 in film
Under Two Flags (1936 film)
The Garden of Allah (1936 film)
1938 in film
The Sun Never Sets (film)
1939 in film
Moon Over Burma
1940 in film
Pacific Blackout
1941 in film
Forever and a Day (1943 film)
1943 in film
Beware of Pity
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The Mark of Cain (1947 film)
Bitter Springs (film)
1950 in film
Where No Vultures Fly
1951 in film
His Excellency (1952 film)
1952 in film
Make Me an Offer
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Seven Wonders of the World (film)
1956 in film
A Town Like Alice (film)
Robbery Under Arms (1957 film)
1957 in film
Dust in the Sun
1958 in film
Dunkirk (1958 film)
Payment on Demand
1959 in film
Beware of Pity
1946 in film
The Mark of Cain (1947 film)
1947 in film
Colonel Blood (film)
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Clive of India (play)
Thank You, Mr. Pepys!
Pommy (play)
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