Jack Davies (screenwriter)
- Jack Davies (screenwriter)
Jack Davies (1913–1994) was an English screenwriter, producer, editor and actor.
Jack Davies led a prolific film career as a comedy screenwriter in forty-eight films. He wrote for such popular comedians, such as Will Hay and Norman Wisdom. He received an Oscar nomination for Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines.
His son John Howard Davies became a successful child actor and BBC television executive.
elected Filmography
* Mister Cinders (1934)
* Music Hath Charms (1935)
* The Tenth Man (1936)
* Laughter in Paradise (1951)
* Curtain Up (1952)
* Top Secret (1952)
* Happy Ever After (1954)
* Doctor at Sea (1955)
* An Alligator Named Daisy (1955)
* Jumping for Joy (1956)
* True as a Turtle (1957)
* The Square Peg (1958)
* It Started in Naples (1960)
* The Bulldog Breed (1960)
* Very Important Person (1961)
* The Fast Lady (1962)
* On the Beat (1962)
* Crooks Anonymous (1962)
* Father Came Too! (1964)
* Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)
* The Early Bird (1965)
* Doctor in Clover (1966)
* Gambit (1966)
* Monte Carlo or Bust (1969)
* Some Will, Some Won't (1970)
* Doctor in Trouble (1970)
* Paper Tiger (1975)
* North Sea Hijack (1979)
elected Television Credits
* The Pickwick Papers (12 episodes) (1985)
External links
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0203766/ The Internet Movie Database]
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