James Clavell

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1924-10-10 (70 years old)

Deathday

1994-09-07

Place of Birth

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

James Clavell

Biography

James Clavell, born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell (10 October 1924 – 7 September 1994) was an Australian (later naturalized American) novelist, screenwriter, director and World War II veteran and prisoner of war. Clavell is best known for his epic Asian Saga series of novels and their televised adaptations, along with such films as The Great Escape and To Sir, with Love. Description above from the Wikipedia article  James Clavell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Production

1963

The Great Escape

as Screenplay

1963

The Great Escape

as Producer

1958

The Fly

as Screenplay

1967

1967

1965

The Satan Bug

as Screenplay

1971

1971

The Last Valley

as Director

1964

633 Squadron

as Screenplay

1969

Where's Jack?

as Director

1959

Watusi

as Writer

1960

1959

Five Gates to Hell

as Screenplay

1959

1959

1960

1967

1971

The Last Valley

as Producer

1965

King Rat

as Novel

1986

Tai-Pan

as Novel

1960

1982

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