Thomas Ernest Bennett "Tibby" Clarke (7 June 1907 - 11 February 1989) was a movie

Film

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 scriptwriter who wrote several of the Ealing Studios

Ealing Studios

Ealing Studios is a television and film production company and facilities provider at Ealing Green in West London. Will Barker bought the White Lodge on Ealing Green in 1902 as a base for film making, and films have been made on the site ever since...

 comedies. His scripts always feature careful logical development from a slightly absurd premise to a farcical conclusion. In 1952 he was awarded a Best Original Screenplay Oscar for his script for The Lavender Hill Mob

The Lavender Hill Mob

The Lavender Hill Mob is a 1951 comedy film from Ealing Studios, written by T.E.B. Clarke, directed by Charles Crichton, starring Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway and featuring Sid James and Alfie Bass...

, making him one of just a handful of Britons to receive this award. He continued to work as a scriptwriter after Ealing ceased production in the mid-fifties, his later contributions including Sons and Lovers

Sons and Lovers (1960 film)

Sons and Lovers is a British 1960 film adaptation of the D. H. Lawrence novel Sons and Lovers. It was adapted by T. E. B. Clarke and Gavin Lambert and directed by Jack Cardiff...

 and the Disney film The Horse without a Head.

Clarke was also a novelist and writer of non-fiction, and was not above presenting his fictions as fact - notably the 1981 book Murder at Buckingham Palace, which purports to tell the story of a hushed-up murder in the Royal residence in 1935. Despite its including 'documentary' photographs, there is no external evidence that the book is anything but pure fiction.

Screenplays by T.E.B. Clarke

• Johnny Frenchman
  Johnny Frenchman
  Johnny Frenchman is a 1945 British film produced by Ealing Studios and directed by Charles Frend. The film was produced by Michael Balcon from a screenplay by T.E.B...
  
  
• Hue and Cry
  Hue and Cry (film)
  Hue and Cry is a British film directed by Charles Crichton and starring Alastair Sim, Harry Fowler and Joan Dowling.It is generally considered to be the first of the "Ealing comedies", although it is better characterised as a thriller for children...
  
  
• Against the Wind
  Against the Wind (1948 film)
  Against the Wind is a black-and-white British film directed by Charles Crichton and produced by Michael Balcon, released through Ealing Studios in 1948...
  
  
• Passport to Pimlico
  Passport to Pimlico
  Passport to Pimlico is a 1949 British comedy film made by Ealing Studios and starred Stanley Holloway, Margaret Rutherford, and Hermione Baddeley. It was directed by Henry Cornelius....
  
  
• The Magnet
  The Magnet (1950 film)
  The Magnet is a 1950 Ealing Studios comedy film, and gave James Fox his first starring role. The story revolves around a young boy, Johnny Brent , whose deceptive obtaining of the eponymous magnet leads to confusion and ultimately him being hailed as a hero, but feeling guilt at his slyness...
  
  
• The Lavender Hill Mob
  The Lavender Hill Mob
  The Lavender Hill Mob is a 1951 comedy film from Ealing Studios, written by T.E.B. Clarke, directed by Charles Crichton, starring Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway and featuring Sid James and Alfie Bass...
  
  
• The Titfield Thunderbolt
  The Titfield Thunderbolt
  The Titfield Thunderbolt is a 1953 British comedy film about a group of villagers trying to prevent British Railways from closing the fictional Titfield branch line. The film was written by T.E.B...
  
  
• The Rainbow Jacket
  The Rainbow Jacket
  The Rainbow Jacket is a 1954 British drama film directed by Basil Dearden, and featuring Robert Morley, Kay Walsh, Bill Owen, Honor Blackman and Sid James.-Cast:* Robert Morley as Lord Logan* Kay Walsh as Barbara Crain...
  
  
• Barnacle Bill (All at Sea in the US)

Non-fiction by T.E.B. Clarke

• Go South - Go West
• What's Yours?
• Intimate Relations
• This is Where I Came In
  This Is Where I Came In
  This Is Where I Came In is the Bee Gees' twenty-second studio album, released in 2001. It was the final album released by the group before the death of brother Maurice Gibb in 2003, and the only album of all-new material released by them on the Universal Music label This Is Where I Came In is the...
  
  

Novels by T.E.B. Clarke

• Jeremy's England
• Cartwright Was a Cad
• Two and Two Make Five
• Mr Spirket Reforms
• The World Was Mine
• The Wide Open Door
• The Trail of the Serpent
• The Wrong Turning
• The Man Who Seduced a Bank
• Murder at Buckingham Palace

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