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Charles Bennett (2nd August, 1899 - 15th June, 1995) was a British playwright and screenwriter, probably best known for his work with Alfred Hitchcock.

Born in Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, England, Bennett served in World War I and worked as an actor and writer, before finding success as a playwright in the 1920s. His play Blackmail was turned into a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1929, which is generally credited as the first British sound film.

His association with Hitchcock continued into the 1930s, with Bennett writing some of the latter's most famous British films - The Man Who Knew Too Much
, The 39 Steps
, Secret Agent
, Sabotage and Young and Innocent
. Bennett left England to work with Hitchcock on his first American film, Foreign Correspondent
in 1940. He would stay in Hollywood, writing many screenplays and directing two films, Madness of the Heart in 1949 and No Escape
in 1953.

He later worked in American television on such series as Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
, The Wild Wild West and Land of the Giants. However, the most famous of Bennett's later films was another British production, an adaptation of M.R. James's Casting the Runes, entitled Night of the Demon
and directed by Jacques Tourneur in 1957.

Bennett died in Los Angeles, California U.S.A. in 1995.

Selected films as writer

Partners Please (1932)
The Clairvoyant
(1934)
The Secret of the Loch (1934)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) (story)
The 39 Steps
(1935)
Sabotage (1936)
Secret Agent
(1936)
Young and Innocent
(1937)
Balalaika (1939)
Foreign Correspondent
(1940)
Reap the Wild Wind
(1942)
Joan of Paris (1942)
Forever and a Day (1943)
The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)
Unconquered (1947)
Ivy (1947)
The Sign of the Ram (1948)
Madness of the Heart (1949) (also as director)
Black Magic (1949)
Where Danger Lives
(1950)
No Escape
(1953) (also as director)
The Story of Mankind (1957)
Night of the Demon
(1957)
The Big Circus (1959)
The Lost World (1960)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
(1961)
Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)

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