Eliot Stannard

Eliot Stannard
Born	(1888-03-01)1 March 1888 Wandsworth, London, England
Died	21 November 1944(1944-11-21) (aged 56) Kensington, London, England
Occupation	Screenwriter
Years active	1914–1933

Eliot Stannard (1 March 1888 – 21 November 1944) was an English screenwriter and director. He was the son of civil engineer Arthur Stannard and Yorkshire-born novelist Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Palmer.

Stannard wrote the screenplay for 88 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.

Partial filmography

• The Idol of Paris (1914)
• Florence Nightingale (1915)
• The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1915)
• Profit and the Loss (1917)
• Justice (1917)
• Hindle Wakes (1918)
• The Toilers (1919)
• The Artistic Temperament (1919)
• Mr. Gilfil's Love Story (1920)
• The Twelve Pound Look (1920)
• Build Thy House (1920)
• The Will (1921)
• The Old Country (1921)
• Belphegor the Mountebank (1921)
• The Prince and the Beggarmaid (1921)
• The Bachelor's Club (1921)
• The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick (1921)
• Her Penalty (1921)
• A Master of Craft (1922)
• Mord Em'ly (1922)
• The Pauper Millionaire (1922)
• A Sailor Tramp (1922)
• The Romany (1923)
• Heartstrings (1923)
• Paddy the Next Best Thing (1923)
• Hutch Stirs 'em Up (1923)
• The Fair Maid of Perth (1923)
• Hurricane Hutch in Many Adventures (1924)
• Wanted, a Boy (1924)
• The Gay Corinthian (1924)
• Love and Hate (1924)
• Chappy - That's All (1924)
• Settled Out of Court (1925)
• The Pleasure Garden (1925)
• The Mountain Eagle (1926), a lost film
• The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
• Blighty (1927)
• Downhill (1927)
• Sailors Don't Care (1928)
• The Farmer's Wife (1928)
• Easy Virtue (1928)
• Tommy Atkins (1928)
• Champagne (1928)
• Young Woodley (1928)
• Widecombe Fair (1928)
• The Manxman (1929)
• The Hate Ship (1929)
• The American Prisoner (1929)
• A Safe Affair (1931)
• The Officers' Mess (1931)
• Above Rubies (1932)
• To Brighton with Gladys (1933)

External links

• Eliot Stannard at IMDb
• Eliot Stannard biography at the British Film Institute's Screenonline