Ian Dalrymple

Screenwriter

About

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Birth Place

South Africa

Born

August 26, 1903

Died

April 28, 1989

Filmography

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Esther Waters (1948)

Old Bill and Son (1940)

Storm in a Teacup (1937)

Hell in Korea (1956)

Three Cases of Murder (1955)

Raising a Riot (1955)

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Paradise Lagoon (a.k.a The Admirable Crichton, 1958) -- (Movie Clip) White Sands And Palm Trees

Paradise Lagoon (a.k.a The Admirable Crichton, 1958) -- (Movie Clip) You're Doing Splendidly

Biography

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Esther Waters (1948)

Old Bill and Son (1940)

Storm in a Teacup (1937)

Writer (Feature Film)

Hell in Korea (1956)

Three Cases of Murder (1955)

Raising a Riot (1955)

Raising a Riot (1955)

The Heart of the Matter (1954)

Dear Mr. Prohack (1949)

The Woman In The Hall (1947)

The Lion Has Wings (1940)

French Without Tears (1940)

Clouds over Europe (1939)

Pygmalion (1939)

A Window in London (1939)

The Citadel (1938)

South Riding (1938)

The Divorce of Lady X (1938)

Action for Slander (1938)

Additional Dialogue

Storm in a Teacup (1937)

Screenplay Adapted

Jury's Evidence (1936)

The Prince of Wales (1934)

Channel Crossing (1934)

Producer (Feature Film)

Paradise Lagoon (1958)

A Cry From the Streets (1958)

Hell in Korea (1956)

Three Cases of Murder (1955)

Raising a Riot (1955)

The Heart of the Matter (1954)

Dear Mr. Prohack (1949)

The Woman In The Hall (1947)

The Lion Has Wings (1940)

Associate Producer

I Was a Spy (1933)

Editing (Feature Film)

The Iron Duke (1935)

Jack Ahoy (1935)

Little Friend (1934)

The Ghoul (1933)

Faithful Heart (1933)

Night and Day (1933)

The Man They Couldn't Arrest (1933)

Michael and Mary (1932)

Bachelor's Folly (1932)

Office Girl (1932)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1932)

Life Events

1927

First film as editor

1933

Wrote first screenplay

Videos

Paradise Lagoon (a.k.a The Admirable Crichton, 1958) -- (Movie Clip) White Sands And Palm Trees In the South Seas, separated from their yacht, butler Crichton (Kenneth More) with maid Tweeny (Diane Cilento), employer Lord Loam (Cecil Parker), his daughters (Sally Ann Howes, Mercy Haystead, Miranda Connell) and suitors (Jack Watling, Gerald Harper), in Paradise Lagoon, 1958, better known as The Admirable Crichton.

Paradise Lagoon (a.k.a The Admirable Crichton, 1958) -- (Movie Clip) You're Doing Splendidly Sally Ann Howes as Lady Mary is gaining some nerve, though she’s the last holdout of the shipwrecked Loam family in recognizing that their butler Crichton (Kenneth More) is best equipped to lead their party, and her attempted swim brings her around, in Paradise Lagoon, 1958, better known as The Admirable Crichton, from the J.M. Barrie play.

Lion Has Wings, The -- (1940) -- (Movie Clip) This Is Britain The newsreader E.V.H. Emmett would have been familiar to any Britons watching this unbridled propaganda narrative, which continues at intervals throughout the film, opening The Lion Has Wings, 1940, directing credit shared by Michael Powell, Brian Desmond Hurst and Adrian Brunel.

Lion Has Wings, The -- (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Are We At War? The first scene in which actors emerge from the narration, Churchill's address as Merle Oberon (Newly married to the producer, as "Mrs. Richardson") and June Duprez (as "June") listen, Ralph Richardson (as "Wing Commander... Richardson") and Brian Worth (as "Bobby") arrive, in Alexander Korda's rush-job WWII propaganda effort, The Lion Has Wings, 1940.

Divorce of Lady X, The (1938) -- (Movie Clip) I Shall Become Giddy! Chestnut-haired Leslie (Merle Oberon) now into the orange and red (Technicolor) pajamas, jousting with Logan (Laurence Olivier) with whom she's forced to share a suite, in an early scene from Alexander Korda's The Divorce of Lady X, 1938.

Divorce of Lady X, The (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Quite Wild With Fatigue Between the color-design by Lazare Meerson and the implacable poise of Logan (Laurence Olivier), the hotel manager (Victor Rietti) stands little chance of persuading the guest to share his room in The Divorce of Lady X, 1938.

Divorce of Lady X, The (1938) -- (Movie Clip) A Serpent! A Viper! Barrister Logan (Laurence Olivier) offering cautious advice to Lord Mere (Ralph Richardson), having realized he may be the un-named party consorting with the lord's straying wife, in Alexander Korda's production of The Divorce of Lady X, 1938.

Esther Waters (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Sharp Ear For The Bells Maid Kathleen Ryan (title character) is already put out with her beau William (Dirk Bogarde), footman and aspiring horse trainer, who's just lost in a big race, when she discovers he's been dallying with the mistress, in Esther Waters, 1948, directed by Ian Dalrymple and production designer Peter Proud.

Esther Waters (1948) -- (Movie Clip) They Look Very Thin Having begun with Kathleen Ryan (title character) on foot in the English countryside, she meets handsome William (Dirk Bogarde in his first starring role), a footman more interested in horse racing, in Esther Waters, 1948, from a book by the Irish writer George Moore.

Esther Waters (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Derby Day Near the end of a story often about racing, a staging of Derby Day at Epsom, Surrey, England, Kathleen Ryan the title character, who has that day married long-time beau and bookie William (Dirk Bogarde), meeting a former fellow domestic servant (Margaret Diamond), in Esther Waters, 1948.

Citadel, The (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Whilst Nature Makes Them Well Robert Donat as Manson, paying his first house call on a Welsh mining family, his character based on the author and physician A.J. Cronin, who practiced in Wales, later meeting jaunty fellow doctor Denny (Ralph Richardson), early in The Citadel, 1938.

Citadel, The (1938) -- (Movie Clip) It Is God's Will The new and inexperienced local doctor Manson (Robert Donat) has just delivered what appeared to be a stillborn child to the wife of Welsh miner Joe (Edward Chapman), Joan Kemp-Welch the worried nurse, in The Citadel, 1938, from the landmark novel by physician A.J. Cronin.

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