Eliot Stannard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Eliot Stannard

screenwriter

Date of Birth: 01-Mar-1888

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 21-Nov-1944

Profession: screenwriter, film director

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

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 screenplay for 88 films between 1914 and 1933, including eight films directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
He also directed five films.
During the early 1920s, he worked on most of the screenplays for the Ideal Film Company, one of Britain's leading silent film studios.