John Dighton
John Gervase Dighton ( born August 12, 1909 in London, † 1989) was a British screenwriter and writer.
Life and work
John Dighton attended Charterhouse School and then studied at Caius College, Cambridge. Then Dighton worked as a journalist at the Northcliffe Newspapers, 1935 before he joined the film.
First, in the 1930s and 1940s, Dighton wrote the screenplays for a number of challenging poor and cost- produced comedies and comedies with the British public's favorite Will Hay and George Formby. After the Second World War Dighton was also involved in higher-quality films. Particular success he experienced with his manuscripts to two comedy classics of Ealing Studios starring Alec Guinness: Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Man in the White Suit. Some of his screenplays such as The Happiest Days of Your Life and Who Goes There? Dighton also wrote the original.
After his Oscar nomination for the Roman Romance A heart and a crown, which should represent a breakthrough for Audrey Hepburn, Dighton seemed interesting for Hollywood. But he found there only in 1955 employment when he. Guinness for another movie, the adaptation of Molnar The Swan with Grace Kelly was in the female lead, committed By the end of the same decade, John Dighton retired into private life. Dighton said to have died in 1989, an exact date of death and place of death is currently not ascertainable. A death in England can be excluded as the local death registers do not record his name.