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Frederick Knott
Born
Frederick Major Paull Knott (1916-08-28)28 August 1916 Hankou, China
Died
17 December 2002(2002-12-17) (aged 86) New York City, New York
Occupation
playwright, screenwriter
Language
English
Frederick Major Paull Knott (28 August 1916 – 17 December 2002) was an English playwright and screenwriter known for complex crime-related plots. Although he was a reluctant writer and completed a small number of plays, two have become well-known: the London-based stage thriller Dial M for Murder, later filmed in Hollywood by Alfred Hitchcock, and the 1966 play Wait Until Dark, which was adapted to a Hollywood film directed by Terence Young. He also wrote the Broadway mystery Write Me a Murder.
He has a son named Tony Knott who attended Princeton Day School in the 1970s.
Frederick Major Paull Knott (28 August 1916 – 17 December 2002) was an English playwright and screenwriter known for complex crime-related plots. Although...
rewritten and altered from its original form. Loosely based on the play by FrederickKnott, the screenplay was written by Patrick Smith Kelly. Wall Street financier...
stage play on which it was based were written by English playwright FrederickKnott. The play premiered in 1952 on BBC Television, before being performed...
Wait Until Dark is a play by FrederickKnott, first performed on Broadway in 1966 and often revived since then. A film version was released in 1967, and...
made her Broadway debut playing Susy Hendrix in the revival of the FrederickKnott play Wait Until Dark acting opposite Quentin Tarantino at the Brooks...
Maggie Smith. The film was based on the play Mr. Fox of Venice by FrederickKnott, the novel The Evil of the Day by Thomas Sterling, and loosely on the...
Title Role Playwright Venue Refs. 1966 Wait Until Dark Harry Roat Jr. FrederickKnott Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway 1977 American Buffalo Walter Cole...
important instance. The 1952 BBC television play Dial M for Murder by FrederickKnott (later adapted for the stage and then adapted again in 1954 as a theatrical...
Write Me a Murder is a mystery play in three acts by FrederickKnott, which premiered on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre on October 26, 1961, presented...
supplied by Lippert to ensure familiarity with American audiences. FrederickKnott wrote the screenplay based on a play by James Hadley Chase. Filming...
accepted the offer of a part in a thriller called Write Me a Murder by FrederickKnott. She continued to work on radio and on television, including work with...
Aloysius Leo Knott was born on May 12, 1829, near New Market in Frederick County, Maryland, to Elizabeth Sprigg (née Sweeney) and Edward Knott. His father...
dissolved this band in early 1941. The 1952 stage play and screenplay by FrederickKnott "Dial M for Murder" refers to the MAIda Vale number used to summon...
Collins. In 1969 he took a four-week hiatus from the show to star in the FrederickKnott play Dial M for Murder at the legendary The Little Theatre on the Square...
Neil Simon Shakespeare in Hollywood by Ken Ludwig Wait Until Dark by FrederickKnott Social Security by Andrew Bergman 2005 On the Razzle by Tom Stoppard...
Herbert Don Juan In Hell by George Bernard Shaw Dial M for Murder by FrederickKnott You Never Can Tell by George Bernard Shaw Stalag 17 by Donald Bevan...
Kling (living, United States) Alexander Kluge (born 1932, Germany) FrederickKnott (1916–2002, England) Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980, Austria-Hungary, England...
including Mogarana Sap (Snake in the Jasmine, 1963, adapted from FrederickKnott's Dial M for Murder), Manju Manju (1965, adapted from Jean Kerr's Mary...
with Jean-Pierre Aumont, before being cast in the film adaptation of FrederickKnott's Broadway play Dial M for Murder, opposite Ray Milland and Robert Cummings...
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