Alec Coppel

Born in Melbourne, Coppel left Wesley College for Cambridge to study medicine, but abandoned his degree and entered advertising while writing in his spare time. His first theatrical successes arrived with the West End hit I Killed the Count (1937), which he later novelised, adapted for radio and turned into a screenplay, opening doors to film work such as Over the Moon (1939). After a brief return… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources