Eliot Stannard

Emerging from a family where engineering and literature intersected-his father a civil engineer and his mother a Yorkshire-born novelist-Eliot Stannard became one of Britain’s most prolific silent-era screenwriters. Between 1914 and 1933 he contributed to or oversaw the scripts of roughly four hundred films, a body of work that includes the eight fully silent features directed by Alfred Hitchcock… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources