Eliot Stannard
Eliot Stannard | |
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Stannard in the 1920s | |
| Born | 1 March 1888 Wandsworth, London, England |
| Died | 21 November 1944 (aged 56) Kensington, London, England |
| Occupation | Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1914–1933 |
| Mother | Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Palmer |
Eliot Stannard (1 March 1888 – 21 November 1944) was an English screenwriter and director. He was the son of civil engineer Arthur Stannard and Yorkshire-born novelist Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Palmer. Stannard wrote the screenplays for as many as over 400 films between 1914 and 1933, including the eight fully-silent films directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and also directed five films himself.
During the early 1920s, he worked on most of the screenplays for the Ideal Film Company, one of Britain's leading silent film studios. Despite being one of Britain's most prolific screenwriters, Stannard disappeared from the film industry in 1933 and little is known of his last decade, although there have been general appeals for more information concerning this period.