British playwright and screenwriter (1896–1972)
Alfred Edgar Frederick Higgs (12 August 1896 – 23 October 1972), who wrote under the nameBarré Lyndon , was aBritish playwright and screenwriter.
Born inLondon , Lyndon may be best remembered for his stage playThe Man in Half Moon Street Leslie Banks ,Malcolm Keen andAnn Todd ,[ 1] The Lodger Hangover Square The Man in Half Moon Street Hammer Film Productions in 1959 asThe Man Who Could Cheat Death
Lyndon began his writing career as a journalist, particularly about motor-racing, and short-story writer before becoming a playwright. His first play,The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse Edward G. Robinson film in 1939. After that success, Lyndon moved toLos Angeles, California , in 1941, to concentrate on writing for films full-time. He was naturalised as a United States citizen in the United States District Court in Los Angeles as Alfred Edgar Barre Lyndon in 1952.
He had two sons, Roger Alvin Edgar (b. England, 1924) and Barry Davis Edgar (b. England, 1929).
Partial filmography [ edit ] The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse Anatole Litvak (1938, based on the playThe Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse They Came by Night Harry Lachman (UK, 1940, based on the playThey Came by Night )The Man in Half Moon Street Ralph Murphy (1945, based on the playThe Man in Half Moon Street The Man Who Could Cheat Death Terence Fisher (UK, 1959, based on the playThe Man in Half Moon Street )Sundown Henry Hathaway (1941)The Lodger John Brahm (1944, based on the novelThe Lodger Marie Belloc Lowndes )Hangover Square John Brahm (1945, based on the novelHangover Square Patrick Hamilton )The House on 92nd Street Henry Hathaway (1945)Night Has a Thousand Eyes John Farrow (1948, based on the novelNight Has a Thousand Eyes byCornell Woolrich )To Please a Lady Clarence Brown (1950)The Greatest Show on Earth Cecil B. DeMille (1952)The War of the Worlds Byron Haskin (1953, based on the novelThe War of the Worlds H. G. Wells )Man in the Attic Hugo Fregonese (1953, based on the novelThe Lodger Marie Belloc Lowndes )Sign of the Pagan Douglas Sirk (1954)Omar Khayyam William Dieterle (1957)The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come Andrew V. McLaglen (1961, based on the novelThe Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come byJohn Fox Jr. )Dark Intruder Harvey Hart (1965)Partial bibliography [ edit ] Alfred Edgar (1926).Knights of the Wheel . Harrap Barré Lyndon (1932).The Luck of the Game Again . UK:The MG Car Company — (1933).Combat: A Motor Racing History. London:Heinemann — (1934).Circuit Dust. London: John Miles — (1935).Grand Prix . London: John Miles G.E.T. Eyston ; Barré Lyndon (1935).Motor Racing and Record Breaking .Batsford ^ Blood on the Stage, 1925-1950: Milestone Plays of Crime, Mystery, and Detection: An Annotated Repertoire by Amnon Kabatchnik, 2009
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