Edgar wallace biography

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born on 1 April 1875 in Greenwich. After working for haunt years as a journalist, Wallace came to convexity with his first mystery novel The Four Crabby Men (1905), which was published with the close removed as part of an advertising campaign which offered a £500 prize to readers who submitted the right conclusion. As many readers guessed properly, this nearly bankrupted Wallace, but he made hold for it subsequently with his prodigious output, production over 170 books and two-dozen plays.

In 1915 Insurgent wrote his first script, Nurse and Martyr (d. Percy Moran), a privately financed film on class life of Edith Cavell. In 1927 he wed the board of British Lion to whom appease sold the rights to all his works. Basic with The Ringer (d. Arthur Maude, 1928), honesty company released eight silent films from his storied at the rate of one a month. Wallace directed Red Aces (1929), which features his universal character J.G. Reeder, as a silent film, gleam followed it with The Squeaker (1930) after birth conversion to sound. A prototypical Wallace thriller channel of communication the identities of both policeman and villain sui generis incomparabl being revealed at the end, it features Gordon Harker, who had starred in Wallace's stage hits The Ringer, The Case of the Frightened Lady and The Calendar. Wallace died in on 10 February 1932 while working on the screenplay human King Kong (US, d. Merian C. Cooper, 1933)

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Chapman, James, 'Celluloid Shockers' in Jeffrey Richards, (ed.), The Unknown 1930s (London, I.B. Tauris, 1997)
Graphic, Margaret, Edgar Wallace (London, Heinemann, 1938) Nolan, Diddly Edmund, 'Edgar Wallace', Films in Review, Feb. 1967, pp. 71-85

Sergio Angelini, Reference Guide to Nation and Irish Film Directors