W. P. Lipscomb
Percy William Lipscomb (* 1887 in Merton, Surrey, England; † July 25, 1958 in London) was a British screenwriter, the Oscar ceremony in 1939 won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay.
Life
Lipscomb began his career as a screenwriter in the film industry in 1928 with the film Balaclava and wrote until his death in the scripts and templates for around sixty films.
At the Academy Awards in 1939 he won jointly with George Bernard Shaw, Ian Dalrymple and Cecil Lewis the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for the film drama The novel of a flower girl (1938 ), the Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller and Alfred Lawson were staged according to Shaw's play Pygmalion (1913).
In addition, he was nominated in 1957 by Richard Mason for the British Academy Film Awards ( BAFTA Film Award ) for Best Screenplay, and indeed for march through hell (A Town Like Alice, 1956) by Jack Lee with Virginia McKenna, Peter Finch and Kenji Takaki in the lead roles.
Lipscomb, of the film Colonel Blood turned as a director in 1934, also was a producer of movies Beware of Pity (1946 ), The Mark of Cain (1947 ) and Make Me an Offer (1954).