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• full name: Robert Cedric Sherriff. [31] [35] [38] [46] [48]
• year born: 1896. [31] [38] [40] [46] [48]
• date of birth: 1896-06-06. [38] [46] [48]
• year died: 1975. [31] [38] [46] [48]
• date of death: 1975-11-13. [38] [46] [48]
• English [46] [48]
• (writer [46])
• playwright and scriptwriter ???
• best known for his play Journey's End ???

Infobox

• full name: (sourced elsewhere)
• date of birth: (sourced elsewhere)
• date of death: (sourced elsewhere)
• location of death: ???
• playwright and scriptwriter ???
• British ???
• Writing period: 1929 - 1968
• Notable work(s): ???

Early life

• location of birth?
  • Kingston upon Thames. [31] [46]
  • Hampton Wick, Middlesex. [35]
  • Hampton Wick, Surrey, England. [38] [48]
  • Esher, Surrey. [35]

• parents:
  • He was the only child of Herbert Hankin Sherriff, insurance clerk, and his wife, Constance, daughter of Charles Winder, of Iver, Buckinghamshire. ???

• education:
  • Kingston Grammar School. [40] [48]
  • Grammar school at Kingston on Thames. [38]

• working in insurance before WW1 [38] [46]
  • as claims adjuster in 1914 [48] [46]

• working in insurance after WW1 [2] [40] [46]
  • 1918 to 1928. [46] [48] [46]
    • as insurance adjuster 1918-1928 [48]
    • as claims adjuster 1918-28 [46]
      • at Sun Insurance Company, London [48] [46]

• served in WW1 [31] [38]
  • 1915 to 1918, [46]
  • as captain, [22] [31] [38] [40] [48]
  • in the East Surrey Regiment, [40] [48]
    • 9th. [14]
  • sered at Vimy and Loos ???
  • wounded at Passchendaele. [14] [22]
    • (Ypres) [48]
    • severely ???
    • 1979 ???
  • decorated with Military Cross during the war ???

Early plays

• first play to help Kingston Rowing Club raise money to buy a new boat. [3] [46]
• Journey's End:
  • seventh play. [3] [46]
  • written: 1928 [31]
  • published: 1929 [31]
  • 1st 2 performances:
    • 1st 1928-12-09 [46]
    • Apollo Theatre. [9] [45?]
    • directed by James Whale. [7] [45?]
    • Laurence Olivier in the lead role, [8] [31] [45?]
      • who was then 21 years old. [31]
    • 1st performance [10]
    • 2nd performance [11]
    • Maurice Brown in audience for possibly the 1st perf.. [31]
  • Browne produced it at Savoy, [12] [31]
  • from 1929, [13]
    • where it ran for 2 years. [31]

• New College, Oxford. [40] [46] [48]
  • 1931 to 1934 [46] [48]
• fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Society of Antiquaries. [46] [48]

Bibliography

Plays:

• 1st play written in winter 1921. [3]
• 2nd play The woods of Meadowside (1922?) [4]
• 3rd Profit and loss [4] (produced 1923) [48]
  • 1923 [46]
• 4th play (1924?), 5th (1925?), 6th (1926?). [5]
• 4th play Cornlow-in-the-Downs]] [6]
• 1926 Mr. Bridie's finger [46]
• List of plays from 1929 to 1955 (+The Telescope). [40]
• 1930 8th play Badger's Green. [15] [46]
• Windfall, first produced 1933 [46]
• 1934 Two Hearts Doubled [46]
• St. Helena cowritten with Jeanne de Casalis [21]
  • 1934 [31]
    • published [46]
  • or 1935 [40]
    • published [46]
  • 1st performed 1936. [46]
• Miss Mabel [27]
  • 1st performed 1948. [46]
• 1949 Dark evening. [46]
• Home at seven [28]
  • 1st performed 1950. [46]
• 1952 The kite. [46]
• The white carnation. [28]
  • 1st performed 1953. [46]
• The long sunset. [28]
• The Telescope. [29]
• A shred of evidence [30]

Screenplays:

• List of screenplays up to 1955 (+The Telescope). [40]
• The Road Back [18] [41]
  • 1937 (cowritten). [46]
• Over the river [18]
  • aka One More River [42]
• The Four Feathers written in 1935 [19]
  • co-adapted, released in 1939 [47]
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips. [20]
• That Hamilton Woman [24] [32]
  • 1941. [46]
• ? Disney film. [25]
• This Above All [25] [43]
  • 1943, [46] or
  • 1942. [43]
• Odd Man Out. [26]
  • (cowritten)
• Quartet [26] disambiguation. [32]
• The Invisible Man [17] [32]
  • 1933. [46]
• The dam busters. [29]
• Cards with uncle Tom (TV). [29]
• 1963 The Ogburn story (TV). [46]

Novels:

• 1930 Journey's End cowritten. [46]
• Chedworth. [39]
• 1931 The fortnight in September. [16] [31] [46]
• 1939 The Hopkins manuscript. [39] [46]
• Another year: a novel [39]
  • 1948. [46]
• King John's treasure. [29] [44]
• 1962 The wells of St. Mary's. [46]
• The siege of Swayne Castle [39]
  • 1973. [46]

No leading lady: an autobiography published in 1968. [1] [39]

Award nominations

Oscar nom. for Goodbye, Mr. Chips, BAFTA noms for The Dam Busters and The Night My Number Came Up. [37]

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References

[1] Sherriff, Robert Cedric (1968). No leading lady: an autobiography. Victor Gollancz ltd (London). ISBN 575001550.
[2] Ibid, p. 7 (ch. 1).
[3] Ibid, p. 17 (ch. 2).
[4] Ibid, p. 27.
[5] Ibid, p. 29 (ch. 3).
[6] Ibid, p. 31.
[7] Ibid, p. 46 (ch. 4).
[8] Ibid, p. 49 (ch. 5).
[9] Ibid, p. 52.
[10] Ibid, p. 54.
[11] Ibid, p. 57.
[12] Ibid, p. 65, 70.
[13] Ibid, p. 76.
[14] Ibid, p. 114 (ch. 9).
[15] Ibid, p. 196 (ch. 17).
[16] Ibid, p. 229 (ch. 20).
[17] Ibid, pp. 246-247 (ch. 21).
[18] Ibid, p. 283 (ch. 25).
[19] Ibid, p. 288.
[20] Ibid, p. 295.
[21] Ibid, p. 300 (ch. 26).
[22] Ibid, p. 317 (ch. 28).
[23] Ibid, p. 338 (ch. 30). Was his Mrs. Miniver writing unused or uncredited? Not at IMDB
[24] Ibid, pp. 338-339.
[25] Ibid, p. 339.
[26] Ibid, p. 342 (ch. 31).
[27] Ibid, p. 344.
[28] Ibid, p. 346.
[29] Ibid, p. 349.
[30] Ibid, p. 350.

[31] Margaret Drabble (editor) (2000). The Oxford Companion to English Literature, sixth edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198662440. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)

[32] "R.C. Sherriff filmography". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2004-12-19.
[35] "Biography for R.C. Sherriff". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2005-02-14.
[37] "Awards for R.C. Sherriff". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2004-12-19.
[38] "Sherriff, R.C." Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2004-12-19. (Only used info from the non-subscription part.)
[39] "Books Search Results: R. C. Sherriff". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2005-03-15.

[40] unknown (1967). A biographical note, Journey's End. Heinemann educational books ltd.

[41] "Full Cast and Crew for The Road Back (1937)". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2005-04-24.
[42] "One More River". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2005-04-24. aka Over the river
[43] "This above all". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2005-04-24.
[44] "King John's treasure". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2005-04-24.

[45] Trewin, J. C. (2004). ""Sherriff, Robert Cedric (1896-1975)"". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2005-01-26. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help) Subscription required.

[46] "R(obert) C(edric) Sherriff". Contemporary Authors Online. Gale (via InfoTrac, subscription required). 2003. PEN (Permanent Entry Number)=0000090486. {{cite journal}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |accesdate= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)

[47] "Full cast and crew for The Four Feathers (1939)". IMDb. Retrieved 2007-11-30.

[48] D.L. Kirkpatrick, ed. (1991). Reference guide to English literature, volume 2, writers H-Z (2 ed.). St. James Press. ISBN 1-55862-079-6. LCC 91-61857.

[49] to do Bracco, Rosa Maria (1993). Jay Winter (ed.). Merchants of hope: british middle-brow writers and the first World War 1919-1939. The legacy fo the great war. Providence, USA; Oxford, UK: Berg publishers limited. ISBN 0-85496-706-0. 820.9358 BRAC.