🎬Charles Bennett

Born just before the century turned, Charles Bennett made his writing debut as a child in 1911, fought in France during World War I while still a teen and resumed his acting career after the war's end. In 1926 he dropped acting to concentrate on being a playwright, later turning one of his most famous plays, "Blackmail," into a screenplay for production under the direction of Alfred Hitchcock. The affiliation with "Hitch" continued into the early 1940s, by which time both Bennett and the director were working in Hollywood. He wrote for producers ranging from Cecil B. DeMille to Irwin Allen to the penny-pinching folks at AIP. "If I couldn't write, I wouldn't want to live," commented Bennett, who had projects (including a remake of "Blackmail") going right up to the time of his death.

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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	War-Gods of the Deep (1965)	Director / Writer	-	-
2	Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)	Director / Writer		6
3	Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)	Director / Writer		7
4	The Lost World (1960)	Director / Writer	-	-
5	Night of the Demon (1957)	Director / Writer		7
6	The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)	Director / Writer		6.8
7	Casino Royale (1954)	Director / Writer		7
8	No Escape (1953)	Director / Writer		4
9	The Green Glove (1952)	Director / Writer		3
10	Where Danger Lives (1950)	Director / Writer		4
11	The Sign of the Ram (1948)	Director / Writer		5
12	Unconquered (1947)	Director / Writer		5
13	Ivy (1947)	Director / Writer		6
14	The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)	Director / Writer		5
15	Reap the Wild Wind (1942)	Director / Writer		2
16	Foreign Correspondent (1940)	Director / Writer		7
17	The Young in Heart (1938)	Director / Writer		4
18	Young and Innocent (1937)	Director / Writer		9
19	Sabotage (1937)	Director / Writer		7.3
20	Secret Agent (1936)	Director / Writer		8
21	The 39 Steps (1935)	Director / Writer		7.3
22	The Clairvoyant (1935)	Director / Writer		9
23	The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)	Director / Writer		6.5
24	Blackmail (1929)	Director / Writer		5