Eliot Stannard
actor, director, writer
- Born:
- 1888-03-01, Putney, London, England, UK
- Died:
- 1944-11-21, Kensington, London, England, UK
- Professions:
- actor, director, writer
Biography
A spring child of Putney, Eliot Stannard arrived on 1 March 1888 and grew into the silent era’s most nimble scenarist, spinning more than a thousand tales for the camera long before screenwriters were household names. Between 1914 and 1930 his pen flew—crafting suspense for Hitchcock’s breakthrough The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), swashbuckling romance for The Laughing Cavalier (1917), and board-room drama for Profit and the Loss (1917)—while occasionally stepping behind the lens himself. Off-set he shared his life with actress Patricia Bingham-Johns. The final curtain fell on 21 November 1944 in Kensington, but the intertitles he wrote still flicker, keeping early British cinema forever eloquent.
