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Thomas Ernest Bennett " Tibby " Clarke, OBE (7 June 1907 – 11 February 1989) was a film screenwriter who wrote several of the Ealing Studios comedies. Early life. Clarke was born in Watford on 7 June 1907. His father, Ernest Clarke, had been raised in Hull, moving to South Africa in the late 19th century.
Jun 3, 2024 · T.E.B. Clarke was a British screenwriter who wrote the scripts for some of the most popular British comedies of the post-World War II period. Clarke worked as a free-lance journalist and novelist before joining Ealing Studios as a writer in 1943.
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T.E.B. Clarke. Writer: The Lavender Hill Mob. T.E.B. 'Tibby' Clarke graduated with a law degree from Cambridge University, but decided that writing was more his forte. He started on that career path first as writer for a magazine in Australia, than back in London freelancing as a journalist.
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- Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK
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Feb 15, 1989 · The British screenwriter T. E. B. Clarke, whose screenplays included the Academy Award-winning script for ''The Lavender Hill Mob,'' died of cancer here on Saturday. He was 81 years old.
T.E.B. Clarke. Writer: The Lavender Hill Mob. T.E.B. 'Tibby' Clarke graduated with a law degree from Cambridge University, but decided that writing was more his forte. He started on that career path first as writer for a magazine in Australia, than back in London freelancing as a journalist.
- June 7, 1907
- February 11, 1989
T.E.B. Clarke (1907 - 1989) Very few scriptwriters ever get well known, and none get to be more identified with a film movement than those who directed the films. T.E.B. Clarke is the exception. He was born in Watford, and his father was something in the City.
Writer. Nationality: British. Born: Thomas Ernest Bennett Clarke in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, 7 June 1907. Education: Attended Cambridge University. Lived in Australia (where he edited the magazine The Red Heart) and Argentina in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Family: Married Joyce Steel, 1932 (died 1983); two children.
