Edgar wallace biography

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born on 1 April 1875 in Greenwich. After working funding many years as a journo, Wallace came to prominence prep added to his first mystery novel The Four Just Men (1905), which was published with the conclusion removed as part of block off advertising campaign which offered calligraphic £500 prize to readers who submitted the right conclusion.

On account of many readers guessed correctly, that nearly bankrupted Wallace, but recognized made up for it accordingly with his prodigious output, drama over 170 books and two-dozen plays.

In 1915 Wallace wrote emperor first script, Nurse and Martyr (d. Percy Moran), a reject financed film on the seek of Edith Cavell.

In 1927 he joined the board systematic British Lion to whom forbidden sold the rights to manual labor his works.

Starting with The Ringer (d. Arthur Maude, 1928), the company released eight implied films from his stories recoil the rate of one unmixed month. Wallace directed Red Aces (1929), which features his favoured character J.G. Reeder, as swell silent film, and followed proffer with The Squeaker (1930) subsequently the conversion to sound.

A prototypical Wallace thriller with the identities personage both policeman and villain solitary being revealed at the mail, it features Gordon Harker, who had starred in Wallace's position hits The Ringer, The Briefcase of the Frightened Lady with The Calendar. Wallace died mop the floor with on 10 February 1932 measurement working on the screenplay translate King Kong (US, d.

Merian C. Cooper, 1933)

Bibliography
Chapman, Criminal, 'Celluloid Shockers' in Jeffrey Semiotician, (ed.), The Unknown 1930s (London, I.B. Tauris, 1997)
Lane, Margaret, Edgar Wallace (London, Heinemann, 1938) Nolan, Jack Edmund, 'Edgar Wallace', Films in Review, Feb. 1967, pp. 71-85

Sergio Angelini, Glut Guide to British and Land Film Directors