Bryan Edgar Wallace

Bryan Edgar Wallace
Born	28 April 1904 London, England United Kingdom
Died	1971
Occupation	Writer

Bryan Edgar Wallace (1904–1971) was a British writer. The son of the writer Edgar Wallace, Bryan was also a writer of crime and mystery novels which were very similar in style to those of his father. Some of his better known novels are Death Packs a Suitcase, Strangler of Blackmoor Castle, Murder is Not Enough, The Device, The Man Who Would Not Swim, Murder in Touraine, The White Carpet, The Phantom of Soho and The World is at Stake, among others. During the 1930s, he worked as a screenwriter in the British film industry, mostly co-writing scripts with other writers.

From 1961 through 1972, several of his works were made into films during the 1960s boom in German film adaptations of his father's novels. He died in 1971, at age 67.

He was named after the American politician William Jennings Bryan who has father encountered during a trip to North America.

Filmography

• The Squeaker (1930) Bryan only worked on the editing with this film
• The Frightened Lady (1932) Bryan wrote the screenplay based on his father's novel; released in U.S. as Criminal At Large
• The Flying Squad (1932) Bryan wrote the screenplay based on his father's novel
• White Face, the Fiend (1932) Bryan wrote the screenplay based on his father's play
• My Old Dutch (1934) Bryan co-wrote the screenplay based on the Arthur Shirley play
• The Clairvoyant (1935) Bryan co-wrote the screenplay based on Ernst Lothar's novel; released in U.S. as The Evil Mind
• Strangers on a Honeymoon (1936) Bryan co-wrote this screenplay based on his father's novel
• The Squeaker (1937) Bryan co-wrote the screenplay based on his father's novel; released in U.S. as Murder on Diamond Row
• You're in the Army Now (1937) Bryan co-wrote this screenplay with three other writers
• Inspector Hornleigh (1939) Bryan co-wrote the screenplay with two other writers
• The Mysterious Mr. Reeder (1939) (working title was The Mind of Mr. Reeder) Bryan co-wrote the screenplay based on his father's novel
• Secret of the Black Trunk (de: Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Koffer) (1961) made in Germany, based on Bryan Edgar Wallace's novel, Death Packs a Suitcase
• The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle (Der Würger von Schloss Blackmoor) (1963) made in Germany; based on the Bryan Edgar Wallace novel
• The Mad Executioners (Der Henker von London) (1963) made in Germany; based on Bryan Edgar Wallace's novel The White Carpet
• Scotland Yard vs Dr. Mabuse (Scotland Yard jagt Dr. Mabuse) (1963) made in Germany; based on Bryan Edgar Wallace's novel The Device
• The Phantom of Soho (de: Das Phantom von Soho) (1964) made in Germany; based on the novel by Bryan Edgar Wallace
• The Monster of London City (Das Ungeheuer von London City) (1964) made in Germany; Wallace just revised this screenplay
• The Seventh Victim (Das siebente Opfer) (1964), made in Germany; based on the Bryan Edgar Wallace novel Murder is Not Enough; released in U.S. as The Racetrack Murders
  
• Death Avenger of Soho (de: Der Todesrächer von Soho / El muerto hace las maletas) (1971) Spanish/German film directed by Jesus Franco, based on Bryan Edgar Wallace's novel Death Packs a Suitcase
• The Dead Are Alive (Das Geheimnis des gelben Grabes/ Secret of the Yellow Graves) (1972) Italian/German co-production, directed by Armando Crispino; based on the short story by Bryan Edgar Wallace
• Bryan Edgar Wallace also reputedly contributed to the screenplay for Dario Argento's The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971) but was uncredited.

Bibliography

• Bergfelder, Tim. International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s. Berghahn Books, 2005.
• Clark, Neil. Stranger than Fiction: The Life of Edgar Wallace, the Man Who Created King Kong. Stroud, UK: The History Press, 2015.

External links

• Bryan Edgar Wallace at IMDb