John Gervase Dighton (8 December 1909 – 16 April 1989) was a British playwright and screenwriter. Dighton was born in London to Basil Lewis Dighton, of...
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directed by John Patton Ford. The script was loosely inspired by the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets by Robert Hamer and John Dighton. Glen Powell...
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Dighton may refer to a location in the United States: Dighton, Kansas Dighton, Massachusetts John Dighton (1909–1989), British playwright and screenwriter...
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the Academy Award for Best Costume Design. The script was written by John Dighton and Dalton Trumbo, though with Trumbo on the Hollywood blacklist, he...
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romantic comedy-drama film directed by Charles Vidor from a screenplay by John Dighton. It is a remake of the 1925 silent film of the same name, itself based...
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an Academy Award for Best Writing (Screenplay) for Roger MacDougall, John Dighton and Alexander Mackendrick. It followed a common Ealing Studios theme...
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14th Viscount's death in 1983 the titles passed to his son, Richard John Dighton Annesley. He was a Captain in the British Army, then farmed in Zimbabwe...
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who withdrew from the project, leaving the scriptwriting to Hamer and John Dighton. Hamer saw the potential of the story and later wrote: What were the...
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The Dighton Rock is a 40-ton boulder, originally located in the riverbed of the Taunton River at Berkley, Massachusetts (formerly part of the town of...
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Duke of York. According to More, he also implicated John Dighton as a perpetrator, and Dighton when questioned corroborated Tyrrell's account. But he...
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Gary John Dighton (18 May 1968 – 9 January 2015) was a British cyclist. He competed in the team time trial at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Dighton won the...
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smothered to death in their beds by two agents of Tyrrell (Miles Forrest and John Dighton) and were then buried "at the stayre foote, metely depe in the grounde...
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Cedric Hardwicke, with Derek Bond in the title role. The screenplay by John Dighton is based on the Charles Dickens novel The Life and Adventures of Nicholas...
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Saraband for Dead Lovers Directed by Basil Dearden Written by John Dighton Alexander Mackendrick Based on novel by Helen Simpson Produced by Michael Balcon...
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Arthur Ridley as Father Owen Mavis Villiers as Violet Josie Welsford as June John Slater as German sergeant James Donald as German corporal Men of the Gloucestershire...
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Manchester (1993) Godfrey Pond in The Happiest Days of Your Life by John Dighton. Directed by Braham Murray at the Royal Exchange, Manchester (2003) Philip...
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fiction novella written by John W. Campbell, Jr. under the pen name Don A. Stuart Who Goes There! a British play by John Dighton filmed in 1952 Who Goes...
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The Happiest Days of Your Life is a farce by the English playwright John Dighton. It depicts the complications that ensue when because of a bureaucratic...
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directed by Frank Launder, based on the 1947 play of the same name by John Dighton. The two men also wrote the screenplay. It is one of a stable of classic...
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September 7 Loren Allred, American singer, songwriter and actress Hannah John-Kamen, English actress Jonathan Majors, American actor Hugh Mitchell, English...
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made accommodations with Italian and German troops…" The screenplay, by John Dighton and Monja Danischewsky, was accordingly amended, and the film was re-edited...
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In 1956, Craig appeared in the West End alongside Robertson Hare in John Dighton's farce Man Alive!. One of her early TV appearances was in an episode...
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Perelman, Terence Rattigan, John Osborne, Robert Bolt, Harold Pinter, David Mamet, Larry McMurtry, Arthur Miller, John Irving, David Hare, Tony Kushner...
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Street by Rudolf Besier. The screenplay for the 1957 film is credited to John Dighton, but Franklin used exactly the same script for the second movie as he...
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Lena Ray Lovell as Schmidt Jeremy Hawk as ADC Aubrey Mallalieu as Rector John Williams as Major Bishop Lawrence O'Madden as Colonel Truscott William Hartnell...
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wrestler. HHL assigned the adaptation to John Dighton, who had just written The Devil's Disciple for the company. Dighton travelled to Australia to research...
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as Peter Sellers and Kenneth Williams. Indeed, as dramatist and barrister John Mortimer noted, the mannerisms Aylmer brought to bear in his roles came to...
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famous Ealing Studios in England, from a script by Roland Kibbee and John Dighton. It also earned a BAFTA Award nomination for Best British Actor (for...
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Presented Dec. 16–18". Playbill. Retrieved 18 January 2019. Bucchino, John. "Past Events". John Bucchino – Songwriter. Retrieved 17 July 2018. Weisenstein, Kara...
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Nugent 1954: Roman Holiday – Ian McLellan Hunter, Dalton Trumbo, and John Dighton * 1955: Sabrina – Billy Wilder, Samuel Taylor, and Ernest Lehman 1956:...
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