Charles Bennett

Birthday: August 02, 1999

An actor both before and after World War I, Briton Charles Bennett was a name-above-the-title stage star throughout the 1920s. "It was enough artistically, but it wasn't enough financially," he would later explain, "So I sort of gradually began to write plays." Bennett eased into scriptwriting just as gradually when his play +Blackmail was filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1929. He ...more