H. Fowler Mear Explained

Harry Fowler Mear
Birth Date:	16 June 1888
Birth Place:	Edmonton, London, United Kingdom
Death Date:	May 1985
Death Place:	Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom
Occupation:	Writer
Yearsactive:	1917–1943 (film)

Harry Fowler Mear (16 June 1888 – May 1985) was a British screenwriter.^[1] He spent a number of years at Twickenham Film Studios where his work has been described as "competent but uninspired".^[2]

Partial filmography

• The Cost of a Kiss (1917)
• What Next? (1928)
• The Silent House (1929)
• Would You Believe It! (1929)
• Red Pearls (1930)
• You'd Be Surprised! (1930)
• The Last Hour (1930)
• The Lyons Mail (1931)
• Black Coffee (1931)
• Third Time Lucky (1931)
• Splinters in the Navy (1931)
• The Happy Ending (1931)
• The Professional Guest (1931)
• Number, Please (1931)
• Deadlock (1931)
• Once Bitten (1932)
• The Crooked Lady (1932)
• The Marriage Bond (1932)
• The Lacquered Box (1932)
• In a Monastery Garden (1932)
• Double Dealing (1932)
• The Ghost Camera (1933)
• The Shadow (1933)
• I Lived with You (1933)
• His Grace Gives Notice (1933)
• This Week of Grace (1933)
• The Umbrella (1933)
• Home, Sweet Home (1933)
• The Wandering Jew (1933)
• Lord Edgware Dies (1934)
• Music Hall (1934)
• Whispering Tongues (1934)
• The Admiral's Secret (1934)
• The Broken Melody (1934)
• Lily of Killarney (1934)
• Say It with Flowers (1934)
• Bella Donna (1934)
• The Night Club Queen (1934)
• Flood Tide (1934)
• The Man Who Changed His Name (1934)
• The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935)
• She Shall Have Music (1935)
• Squibs (1935)
• D'Ye Ken John Peel? (1935)
• Inside the Room (1935)
• Department Store (1935)
• The Morals of Marcus (1935)
• Three Witnesses (1935)
• Scrooge (1935)
• The Last Journey (1936)
• Eliza Comes to Stay (1936)
• Dusty Ermine (1936)
• In the Soup (1936)
• Talking Feet (1937)
• The Vicar of Bray (1937)
• Riding High (1937)
• Death Croons the Blues (1937)
• Song of the Forge (1937)
• Underneath the Arches (1937)
• Stepping Toes (1938)

References

1. Web site: H. Fowler Mear . https://web.archive.org/web/20080310205857/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/286118 . dead . 2008-03-10 . British Film Institute.
2. Richards (ed.) p.43

Bibliography

• Richards, Jeffrey (ed.). The Unknown 1930s: An Alternative History of the British Cinema, 1929- 1939. I.B. Tauris & Co, 1998.