Edwin Greenwood Explained

Edwin Greenwood (1895–1939) was a British screenwriter, novelist and film director.^[1]

Selected filmography

Director

• The Fair Maid of Perth (1923)
• Heartstrings (1923)
• The Bells (1923) 20-minute silent film made as part of the "Gems of Literature" film series^[2]
• A Woman in Pawn (1927)
• Tesha (1928)
• To What Red Hell (1929)
• The Co-Optimists (1929)

Screenwriter

• The Physician (1928)
• The Love Race (1931)
• The Girl in the Night (1931)
• The Maid of the Mountains (1932)
• Lord Camber's Ladies (1932, produced by Alfred Hitchcock)
• Money Talks (1933)
• East Meets West (1936)
• His Lordship (1936)
• Young and Innocent (1937)

Actor

• Chappy - That's All (1924) – Slim Jim
• Jamaica Inn (1939) – Dandy – Sir Humphrey's Gang (final film role)

Bibliography

Novels

• Skin and Bone (1934) – Published in the US as The Deadly Dowager
• Miracle in the Drawing Room: A Daring and Cynical Novel of the Modern World’s Reaction to an Old-fashioned Miracle (1935)
• Pins and Needles: A Melodrama (1935) – Published in the US as The Fair Devil
• French Farce: A Tale of Gallic Lunacy, Murder and Death (1937)
• Old Goat: A Fantasia on the Theme of Blackmail and Sudden Death (1937)
• Dark Understudy: A Modern Crime Story (1940)

References

1. Web site: BFI | Film & TV Database | GREENWOOD, Edwin . 2011-03-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090903175753/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/13737 . 2009-09-03 . dead .
2. Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 258..