Howard Clewes Explained

Howard Clewes
Birth Date:	27 October 1912
Birth Place:	York, England
Occupation:	Screenwriter, Novelist
Yearsactive:	1938–1979

Howard Clewes (27 October 1912  - 29 January 1988) was an English screenwriter and novelist. He wrote for eight films between 1951 and 1974. He also wrote twenty action novels from 1938 to 1979.^[1] He was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Screenplay in 1960 for The Day They Robbed the Bank of England.

He was born in York, England. In 1946, he married Renata Faccincani della Torre, a wartime resistance fighter. She was an active (uncredited) editor in his literary and screenwriting projects.

Filmography

• Green Grow the Rushes (1951), based on his 1949 novel of the same name

• The Long Memory (1953), based on his 1951 novel of the same name
• The Steel Bayonet (1957)
• The One That Got Away (1957)
• The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960)
• Up from the Beach (1965)
• That Man in Istanbul (1965)
• The Three Musketeers (1974)

Novels

• Sailor Comes Home (1938)
• Dead Ground (1946)
• The Unforgiven (1947)
• Thus am I Slayn (1948)
• The Mask Of Wisdom (1949)
• Green Grow the Rushes (1949)
• The Long Memory (1951)
• An Epitaph For Love (1953)
• The Way The Wind Blows (1954)
• Man On A Horse (1964)
• The Libertines (1966)
• I, The King (1979)

Play

Image in the sun (1955)

Notes and References

1. Renata Clewes obituary; London Independent 10 August 2009.