John Dighton

Emerging from a London background-son of antiques dealer and poet Basil Lewis Dighton and Beatrice Mary-and educated at Charterhouse School followed by Caius College, Cambridge, he entered the British entertainment world as a playwright and screenwriter. During the 1940s he supplied material for the final Will Hay comedies, several George Formby pictures, the Dickens adaptation Nicholas Nickleby (… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources