Bryan Edgar Wallace
Bryan Edgar Wallace | |
---|---|
Born | 28 April 1904 London, England United Kingdom |
Died | 1971 (aged 67) |
Occupation | Writer |
Bryan Edgar Wallace (1904–1971) was a British writer. The son of the writer Edgar Wallace, Bryan was also a writer of crime and mystery novels which were very similar in style to those of his father. He was named after the American politician William Jennings Bryan whom his father encountered during a trip to North America.[1]
Some of his better known novels are Death Packs a Suitcase, The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle, Murder is Not Enough, The Device, The Man Who Would Not Swim, Murder in Touraine, The White Carpet, The Phantom of Soho and The World is at Stake, among others. During the 1930s, he worked as a screenwriter in the British film industry, mostly co-writing film scripts with other writers (approximately from 1930 to 1939).
From 1961 until 1971, several of his works were made into films during the 1960s boom in German film adaptations of his father's novels. Sometimes Bryan's films are mistaken for Edgar Wallace adaptations, since they are so similar in plot and style.[2] In 1963, he appeared in a 50-minute German documentary about his father called The Edgar Wallace Story.
He died in 1971, at age 67.[3]
Bryan Edgar Wallace's filmography
1930s
- The Squeaker (1930) Bryan only worked on the editing with this film based on his father's novel
- Bachelor's Folly (1931) Bryan only worked on the editing with this film
- The Frightened Lady (1932) released in U.S. as Criminal At Large; Bryan wrote the screenplay based on his father's novel
- The Flying Squad (1932) Bryan wrote the screenplay based on his father's novel
- White Face, the Fiend (1932) Bryan wrote the screenplay based on his father's play
- My Old Dutch (1934) Bryan co-wrote the screenplay based on the Arthur Shirley play
- The Clairvoyant (1935) released in U.S. as The Evil Mind; Bryan co-wrote the screenplay based on Ernst Lothar's novel The Clairvoyant
- Strangers on a Honeymoon (1936) Bryan co-wrote this screenplay based on his father's novel
- The Squeaker (1937) released in U.S. as Murder on Diamond Row; Bryan co-wrote the screenplay based on his father's novel
- You're in the Army Now (1937) Bryan co-wrote this screenplay with three other writers
- Inspector Hornleigh (1939) Bryan co-wrote this screenplay with two other writers, based on a BBC radio series
- The Mysterious Mr. Reeder (1939) Bryan co-wrote this screenplay based on his father's novel, The Mind of Mr. Reeder
1960s
- Secret of the Black Trunk (de: Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Koffer) (1961) made in Germany, based on Bryan Edgar Wallace's novel, Death Packs a Suitcase
- The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle (Der Würger von Schloss Blackmoor) (1963) made in Germany; based on the Bryan Edgar Wallace novel Strangler of Blackmoor Castle.
- The Mad Executioners [de] (Der Henker von London) (1963) made in Germany; based on Bryan Edgar Wallace's novel The White Carpet
- Scotland Yard vs Dr. Mabuse (Scotland Yard jagt Dr. Mabuse) (1963) made in Germany; based on Bryan Edgar Wallace's 1962 sci-fi novel The Device
- The Phantom of Soho (Das Phantom von Soho) (1964) made in Germany; based on the Bryan Edgar Wallace novel The Phantom of Soho
- The Monster of London City (Das Ungeheuer von London City) (1964) made in Germany; Wallace just revised this screenplay (not based on one of his novels)
- The Seventh Victim (Das siebente Opfer) (1964) made in Germany; released in U.S. as The Racetrack Murders; based on the Bryan Edgar Wallace novel Murder is Not Enough
- The Death Avenger of Soho [de] (Der Todesrächer von Soho / El muerto hace las maletas) (1971) a Spanish/German film directed by Jesus Franco, based on Bryan Edgar Wallace's novel Death Packs a Suitcase
- The Dead Are Alive (Das Geheimnis des gelben Grabes / Secret of the Yellow Graves) (1972) an Italian/German co-production directed by Armando Crispino; (Italian: L'etrusco uccide ancora / The Etruscan Kills Again) based on a short story by Bryan Edgar Wallace. This film was released posthumously in 1972.
- Bryan Edgar Wallace also reputedly contributed with other writers to the screenplay for Dario Argento's The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971) but was uncredited.
References
Bibliography
- Bergfelder, Tim. International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s. Berghahn Books, 2005.
- Clark, Neil. Stranger than Fiction: The Life of Edgar Wallace, the Man Who Created King Kong. Stroud, UK: The History Press, 2015.
External links
- Bryan Edgar Wallace at IMDb
- v
- t
- e
- The Four Just Men (1905)
- Angel Esquire (1908)
- The Council of Justice (1908)
- Captain Tatham (1909)
- The Duke in the Suburbs (1909)
- The Nine Bears (1910)
- Private Selby (1912)
- The Fourth Plague (1913)
- Grey Timothy (1913)
- The River of Stars (1913)
- The Man Who Bought London (1915)
- The Melody of Death (1915)
- A Debt Discharged (1916)
- The Tomb of Ts'in (1916)
- The Just Men of Cordova (1917)
- The Secret House (1917)
- The Clue of the Twisted Candle (1918)
- Down Under Donovan (1918)
- The Man Who Knew (1918)
- Those Folk of Bulboro (1918)
- The Green Rust (1919)
- Kate Plus Ten (1919)
- The Daffodil Mystery (1920)
- Jack O'Judgment (1920)
- The Book of All Power (1921)
- The Law of the Four Just Men (1921)
- The Angel of Terror (1922)
- The Crimson Circle (1922)
- The Flying Fifty-Five (1922)
- Mr. Justice Maxell (1922)
- The Valley of Ghosts (1922)
- The Clue of the New Pin (1923)
- The Green Archer (1923)
- The Missing Million (1923)
- The Dark Eyes of London (1924)
- Double Dan (1924)
- The Face in the Night (1924)
- Room 13 (1924)
- The Sinister Man (1924)
- The Three Oak Mystery (1924)
- Blue Hand (1925)
- The Fellowship of the Frog (1925)
- The Mind of Mr. J. G. Reeder (1925)
- The Strange Countess (1925)
- The Three Just Men (1925)
- The Avenger (1926)
- Barbara on Her Own (1926)
- The Black Abbot (1926)
- The Northing Tramp (1926)
- The Terrible People (1926)
- The Yellow Snake (1926)
- The Big Foot (1927)
- Terror Keep (1927)
- The Traitor's Gate (1927)
- The Squeaker (1927)
- The Forger (1927)
- Again the Three (1928)
- The Gunner (1928)
- Four Square Jane (1929)
- The Green Ribbon (1929)
- The India-Rubber Men (1929)
- The Calendar (1930)
- The Clue of the Silver Key (1930)
- The Lady of Ascot (1930)
- The Man at the Carlton (1931)
- The Guv'nor and Other Short Stories (1932)
- An African Millionaire (1904)
- M'Lady (1921)
- Double Dan (1927)
- The Terror (1927)
- The Man Who Changed His Name (1928)
- The Calendar (1929)
- Persons Unknown (1929)
- On the Spot (1930)
- The Mouthpiece (1930)
- Smoky Cell (1930)
- The Old Man (1931)
- The Valley of Ghosts (1928)
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (1932)
- King Kong (1933)
J. G. Reeder |
|
---|---|
The Four Just Men |
|
Edgar Wallace Mysteries |
|
Rialto Films |
|
Other |
|
Television |
|
- Mary Jane Richards (mother)
- Marriott Edgar (half-brother)
- Bryan Edgar Wallace (son)