Guy Morgan (writer)
Edward Guy Trice Morgan (6 February 1908 – 20 July 1964) was a British screenwriter.[1]
Morgan was educated at Haileybury College and Merton College, Oxford, graduating in 1929.[2] He worked as a journalist and film critic for the Daily Express. During the Second World War, Morgan served in the RNVR; he was wounded in a raid on a Yugoslav island, and became a POW.
After the war he wrote his first novel, The Captive Heart, which he sold to Ealing, launching his career.[3] His other books included Only Ghosts Can Live (1945) and Adventures of the Sea Hawk. He was co-author of the play Albert R.N., which he later adapted as a screenplay. He also wrote early episodes of the Storm Nelson strip in Eagle.
Morgan married, and had a daughter. He died in 1964.
Selected filmography
- The Captive Heart (1947)
- Counterblast (1948)
- Anna Karenina (1948)
- There Is Another Sun (1951)
- Hell Is Sold Out (1951)
- The Girl on the Pier (1953)
- Albert R.N. (1953)
- Love in Pawn (1953)
- Eight O'Clock Walk (1954)
- The Man in the Road (1957)
References
- ^ BFI.org
- ^ Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900–1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 193.
- ^ "Stars meet at new social club". The Australian Women's Weekly. National Library of Australia. 30 April 1949. p. 40. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
External links
- Guy Morgan at IMDb
- 1908 births
- 1964 deaths
- British male screenwriters
- Writers from Swansea
- British World War II prisoners of war
- Welsh screenwriters
- 20th-century British screenwriters
- Welsh novelists
- Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II
- Welsh journalists
- Welsh film critics
- World War II prisoners of war held by Germany
- Military personnel from Swansea
- British writer stubs