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Eliot Stannard

Writer
Eliot Stannard (1 March 1888 – 21 November 1944) was an English screenwriter and director. Stannard wrote the screenplay for more than 80 films between 1914 and 1933, including eight films directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He also directed five films. During the early 1920s, he worked on most of the screenplays for the Ideal Film Company, one of Britain's leading silent film studios. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]

01-03-1888

Birthday

Pisces

Zodiac Sign

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Total Films

Also known as (male)

Wandsworth, London, England, UK

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director

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writer

59 Works

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To Brighton with Gladys

To Brighton with Gladys

Story of nephew's tribulations in conveying penguin to wealthy uncle's seaside home.
0.0

Year:

1933

Above Rubies

Above Rubies

In Monte Carlo, Lady Wellingford cannot redeem a necklace from a jeweler.
0.0

Year:

1932

A Safe Affair

A Safe Affair

A crime film directed by Herbert Wynne
0.0

Year:

1931

The Officers' Mess

The Officers' Mess

A Lieutenant becomes mixed-up with some stolen jewels.
0.0

Year:

1931

The Hate Ship

The Hate Ship

A police captain poses as the valet of a friend who has been invited on a yacht cruise by a notorious schemer, whom the friend is afraid wants to murder him.
0.0

Year:

1929

The American Prisoner

The American Prisoner

Devon, 1815. In the dying days of the Napoleonic Wars, a Danish-American lieutenant, Cecil Stark, is captured attempting to run supplies to the French. Imprisoned at Dartmoor, he and his fellow captives make a desperate escape attempt, in which Stark is shot. He is found by Grace Malherb, and the two fall in love while he convalesces on her family estate. But Grace's father is heavily indebted to the boorish Peter Norcot, whose price for forgiving the loan is Grace's hand in marriage....
0.0

Year:

1929

The Manxman

The Manxman

A fisherman and a rising lawyer who grew up together as brothers fall in love with the same woman.
6.0

Year:

1929

Widecombe Fair

Widecombe Fair

'Devon. Rich widow helps poor squire by pretending his ancestor hid treasure.' (British Film Catalogue)
0.0

Year:

1928

Sir or Madame

Sir or Madame

A girl posing as a knight's male valet is vamped by his fiancée
0.0

Year:

1928

Champagne

Champagne

Betty, the rebellious daughter of a millionaire, decides to marry the penniless Jean—against her father's will—and runs away to France and lives a life of luxury on the profits from her father's business. Pretending his business is crashing, her father finally puts a stop to her behavior, which forces Betty to support herself by getting a job in a night club.
5.2

Year:

1928

Tommy Atkins

Tommy Atkins

A cleric enlists on learning he loves his brother's sweetheart, saves his life, and finds he is really an Earl.
0.0

Year:

1928

Easy Virtue

Easy Virtue

Larita Filton is named as correspondent in a scandalous divorce case. She escapes to France to rebuild her life where she meets John Whittaker. They are later married, but John's well-to-do family finds out Larita's secret.
5.2

Year:

1928

The Vortex

The Vortex

A young man is shocked to discover that his fiancé is the mistress of his mother's lover.
6.0

Year:

1928

The Farmer's Wife

The Farmer's Wife

Successful middle-aged farmer Samuel Sweetland becomes widowed, then his daughter marries and leaves home. Deciding he wishes to remarry, Sweetland pursues some local women he considers prospects.
5.6

Year:

1928

Sailors Don't Care

Sailors Don't Care

'1914. Knight poses as rating aboard son's cruiser and helps Q-ship sink U-boat.' (British Film Catalogue)
0.0

Year:

1928

Downhill

Downhill

Roddy, first son of the rich Berwick family, is expelled from school when he takes the blame for his friend Tim's charge. His family sends him away and all of his friends leave him alone. Through many life choices that don't work out in his favor, Roddy begins to find his life slowly spiraling out of his control.
5.8

Year:

1927

Blighty

Blighty

A chauffeur becomes an officer and later cares for his master's widow and child.
0.0

Year:

1927

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.
7.1

Year:

1927

The Curse of Ravenscroft

The Curse of Ravenscroft

Victor Drew is a British private investigator who must solve the mystery of who is killing off members of the Ravenscroft clan.
0.0

Year:

1926

The Mountain Eagle

The Mountain Eagle

In the Kentucky hills a store keeper tries to win the love of an innocent schoolteacher. She runs away and seeks refuge with a hermit. A lost film.
2.8

Year:

1926

The Pleasure Garden

The Pleasure Garden

Patsy Brand is a chorus girl at the Pleasure Garden music hall. She meets Jill Cheyne who is down on her luck and gets her a job as a dancer. Jill meets adventurer Hugh Fielding and they get engaged, but when Hugh travels out of the country, she begins to play around.
5.2

Year:

1925

Settled Out of Court

Settled Out of Court

A husband's attempts to escape from a loveless marriage ends in tragedy.
0.0

Year:

1925

Nets of Destiny

Nets of Destiny

A son tries to overturn the disgrace of his father, who committed suicide.
0.0

Year:

1924

The Diamond Man

The Diamond Man

Orphan, Audrey Bedford takes the blame for her half- sister's gem theft and later exposes her employer as her crooked husband.
0.0

Year:

1924

The Gay Corinthian

The Gay Corinthian

A boxer saves a lady who joins gypsies on learning she is the subject of a bet.
0.0

Year:

1924

Love and Hate

Love and Hate

British silent comedy film directed by Thomas Bentley...
0.0

Year:

1924

Becket

Becket

The fatal encounter between Henry II and the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket.
0.0

Year:

1924

Heartstrings

Heartstrings

A sailor returns from 'death' to find his wife has remarried for the sake of her crippled child.
0.0

Year:

1923

Hutch Stirs 'em Up

Hutch Stirs 'em Up

A cowboy saves a village girl from a mad squire's torture chamber.
0.0

Year:

1923

The Mistletoe Bough

The Mistletoe Bough

British horror short from 1923.
0.0

Year:

1923

The Romany

The Romany

A gypsy girl saves a runaway girl from her rich fiancé.
0.0

Year:

1923

Paddy The Next Best Thing

Paddy The Next Best Thing

A girl refuses the attentions of a young playboy with whom her sister is in love.
0.0

Year:

1923

The Grass Orphan

The Grass Orphan

0.0

Year:

1922

The Last King of Wales

The Last King of Wales

The romantic 13th-century history of Prince Llywelyn of Wales, and his conflict with King Edward I of England.
0.0

Year:

1922

A Sailor Tramp

A Sailor Tramp

A robbed sailor turns tramp and saves a farmer's ship from burning.
0.0

Year:

1922

The Card

The Card

A sacked clerk rises to become Mayor and weds the daughter of the councillor who fired him.
0.0

Year:

1922

The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick

The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick

A club man's country jaunt with friends leads to a breach of promise suit by a landlady.
0.0

Year:

1921

The Bachelor's Club

The Bachelor's Club

A henpeck man inherits a fortune and starts a club for women-haters.
0.0

Year:

1921

The Prince and the Beggarmaid

The Prince and the Beggarmaid

A king declares war to force a princess to wed his hunchbacked brother.
0.0

Year:

1921

Belphegor the Mountebank

Belphegor the Mountebank

A rogue poses as the Comte he killed and weds the Princess, but the heir to the throne steals their child.
0.0

Year:

1921

The Will

The Will

0.0

Year:

1921

Torn Sails

Torn Sails

Based on the novel by Allen Raine - In Wales, a girl loves a manager but weds her employer who dies in a fire lit by a jealous madwoman.
0.0

Year:

1920

Lady Audley's Secret

Lady Audley's Secret

'Old knight's new wife throws first husband down well and tries to burn blackmailing gardener.' (British Film Catalogue)
0.0

Year:

1920

Build Thy House

Build Thy House

A padre, acting for a dying soldier, poses as the heir to a slum property and becomes a Labour MP.
0.0

Year:

1920

The Twelve Pound Look

The Twelve Pound Look

A self-made man divorces his wife who becomes a typist and warns him his second wife may leave him too.
0.0

Year:

1920

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

The first screen adaptation of Emily Bronte's book about star cross'd lovers who demolish themselves and everyone around them with their self-destructive love.
0.0

Year:

1920

General Post

General Post

An aristocrat allows his daughter to marry a tailor after he wins the VC saving his son's life.
6.5

Year:

1920

Mr. Gilfil's Love Story

Mr. Gilfil's Love Story

Based on the short story from George Eliot's 1857 work Scenes of a Clerical life. A chaplain to an aristocratic British family falls in love with their ward, a young Italian woman, who he marries. Tragedy strikes when she dies only a few months later leaving him in a state of grief.
0.0

Year:

1920

Patricia Brent, Spinster

Patricia Brent, Spinster

'A comedy in which a secretary persuades a man to pose as her fiancée.' (BFI)
0.0

Year:

1919

The Toilers

The Toilers

British romantic drama film starring Ronald Colman as a young man who leaves behind his family and girl in a Cornish fishing village to seek his fortune in London. Two of five reels survive.
0.0

Year:

1919

Red Pottage

Red Pottage

A lady's lover draws spills with her husband to decide who shall commit suicide.
0.0

Year:

1918

Nelson

Nelson

Lord Nelson's life, loves and death.
3.5

Year:

1918

Tom Jones

Tom Jones

Adventures of a squire's disowned son who proves to be his bastard heir.
0.0

Year:

1917

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale

The film portrays the life of Florence Nightingale, particularly her innovations in nursing during the Crimean War (1854–56).
0.0

Year:

1915

Beautiful Jim

Beautiful Jim

A murder mystery concerning the murder by a Colonel's son of his sister's fiancé using a golf club. Based on the novel by John Strange Winter.
0.0

Year:

1914

The Idol of Paris

The Idol of Paris

A crook demands his princess cousin in marriage in return for clearing a prince of theft charges. Based on Charles Darrell's original play.
0.0

Year:

1914

Her Luck in London

Her Luck in London

Nellie, a beautiful farmer's daughter, is lured to the wickedness of the big city. Based on an original story by Charles Darrell.
0.0

Year:

1914