Anthony Armstrong (writer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian British writer
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Place of Birth: Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada
About Anthony Armstrong (writer)
- George Anthony Armstrong Willis (1897–1976) was an Anglo-Canadian writer, dramatist and essayist.
- He was the son of George Hughlings Armstrong Willis, R.
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- and Adela Emma Temple Frere; although his parents were both English, he was born in Esquimalt, British Columbia as a consequence of his father's career as a Paymaster Captain in the Royal Navy.
- They returned to England before his brother's birth in 1900 in Dorset.
- He was educated at Uppingham School.
- His brother John Christopher Temple Willis (1900–1969) was Director-General of the Ordnance Survey 1953–1957, and a watercolourist.During the First World War Willis was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in 1915.
- He was awarded the Military Cross in 1916He married Frances Monica Sealy, and had three children: John Humfrey Armstrong Willis (1928–2012); Antonia Armstrong Willis (1932-2017); and Felicity Armstrong Willis (1936-2006).
- Antonia married the art expert and gallery owner Jeremy Maas; one of their sons, Rupert, is also an art expert, notable for his appearances on the Antiques Roadshow. Armstrong contributed to the screenplay of Alfred Hitchcock's Young and Innocent (1937); and several of his own works were adapted into films including The Strange Case of Mr Pelham, which was made into a first-season episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (and directed by Hitchcock), and the film The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970).
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