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John Dighton (1909–1989)

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1962 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV series)
– The Happiest Days of Your Life (1962) (original)
 
1960 Season of Passion (screenplay)
 
1959 The Devil's Disciple (screenplay)
 
1957 The Barretts of Wimpole Street (screenplay)
 
1956 The Swan
 
1953 Roman Holiday (screenplay)
 
1953 Folly to Be Wise (writer)
 
1953 The Story of William Tell (short) (writer)
 
1952 The Passionate Sentry (play / screenplay)
 
1952 Brandy for the Parson (screenplay)
 
1951 The Man in the White Suit (screenplay)
 
1950 The Happiest Days of Your Life (play)
 
1949 The Happiest Days of Your Life (TV movie) (original play)
 
1949 Kind Hearts and Coronets (screenplay)
 
1948 Saraband (screenplay)
 
1947 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (screenplay)
 
1947 The Happiest Days of Your Life (TV movie) (play)
 
1944 Champagne Charlie (original screenplay)
 
1943 My Learned Friend (writer)
 
1943 Underground Guerrillas (writer)
 
1942 Went the Day Well? (story and screenplay)
 
1942 The Goose Steps Out
 
1942 The Foreman Went to France
 
1942 The Next of Kin
 
1942 The Black Sheep of Whitehall
 
1941 Turned Out Nice Again
 
1941 The Ghost of St. Michael's (original story and screenplay)
 
1940 Three Cockeyed Sailors (screenplay)
 
1940 Saloon Bar
 
1940 That's the Ticket
 
1940 The Briggs Family
 
1940 To Hell with Hitler
 
1940 The Good Old Days
 
1938 Many Tanks Mr. Atkins (writer)
 
1938 Everything Happens to Me (writer)
 
1938 Thank Evans (writer)
 
1938 The Viper (writer)
 
1938 It's in the Blood (writer)
 
1937 Ship's Concert (short)
 
1937 The Compulsory Wife
 
1937 The Vulture
 
1936 Hail and Farewell
 

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(1956) His play, "Man Alive!," was performed at the Aldwych Theatre in London, England with Robertson Hare, Joan Sims, Brian Reece, Joan Benham, Wendy Craig, and Joan Hickson in the cast. See more »
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